Michael Mackensen

Michael Mackensen (born November 1, 1949 in Munich ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Mackensen studied from 1969/1970 to 1976/1977 Provincial Roman Archeology, Prehistory and Early History and Ancient History in Munich , Freiburg and Oxford . In the summer semester of 1974 he did a master's thesis in prehistory and in the winter semester of 1976/1977 he did his doctorate under Günter Ulbert on the subject of The Roman burial ground on the Keckwiese in Kempten. In 1977/1978 Mackensen received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . Until 1980 he worked for the DAI as a research assistant (excavation Carthage / Tunisia and Resafa/Syria). For the Resafa project he received a research grant from the DAI in 1979/1980.

This was followed in 1981 by a brief position at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in Munich. In the same year Mackensen worked again in Carthage as a research assistant at the DAI. 1981/1982 he worked as a research assistant in the Prehistoric State Collection . Then Mackensen was a research assistant to the commission for the archaeological research of the late Roman Raetia of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences until 1994 (excavation projects Nersingen , Burlafingen, Finningen and Kellmünz as well as a survey project in northeastern Tunisia).

From the summer semester of 1988, Mackensen held lectures at the LMU Munich, and in 1989 he was appointed C3 professor at the University of Cologne . In the winter semester 1991/1992 Mackensen did his habilitation again in Munich with the topic The late antique sigillata and lamp pottery of El Mahrine (Northern Tunisia). Studies of North African fine ceramics from the 4th to 7th centuries. From the summer semester of 1994 Mackensen was C3 professor at the LMU Munich as the successor to Günter Ulbert . He retired at the end of March 2015, and was succeeded by Salvatore Ortisi in autumn 2016 .

Excavation projects since 1994: Roman labor and quarry camp Chemtou, Tunisia (1998/1999), Coptic monastery Deir el-Bachit, Upper Egypt (2001/2002), late Roman fort Nag el-Hagar , Upper Egypt (2005-2017), Roman fort Gheriat el -Garbia , NW Libya (2008-2010). - Survey activity since 1994: Late antique fine ceramic pottery El Mahrine and Bordj el-Djerbi, Northern Tunisia (1997/1998); Limes Tripolitanus : Small fort Tisavar and Bezereos , southern Tunisia (1998, 2008), Centenarium Gasr Duib and small fort Gasr Wames , northwest Libya (2008/2010).

Honors

Mackensen has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1985 and has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) since 1998. In 2010 he was made a full member of the OeAI. In 1989 he received the Kurt Bittel Prize for South German Classical Studies . In 2008 he became a member of the Advisory Committee of the Journal of Roman Archeology, in 2009 a member of the Advisory Board of the Roman Communications. Mackensen has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 2009 . In 2010 he received the Prize for Good Teaching from the Free State of Bavaria and in 2013 the Teaching Innovation Prize from the Ludwig Maximilians University.

Fonts

• The Roman burial ground on the Keckwiese in Kempten (= material booklets on Bavarian prehistory. Row A: Find inventories and excavation findings. Volume 34 / = Cambodunum research. Volume 4). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1978, ISBN 3-7847-5034-6 .
• A fortified late antique complex in front of the city walls of Resafa (= Resafa. Volume 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0741-1 .
• Small fort from the early imperial period near Nersingen and Burlafingen on the upper Danube (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Volume 41). Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-31749-9 .
• The late antique sigillata and lamp pottery of El Mahrine (Northern Tunisia). Studies on North African fine ceramics from the 4th to 7th centuries (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Volume 50). Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37015-2 .
• The late Roman border fort Caelius Mons in Kellmünz on the Iller (= guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Swabia. Volume 3). Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1203-1 .
• Late Roman fortifications and building programs in the province of Raetia. The evidence of recent excavations and some new reflections . In: JD Creighton, RJA Wilson (ed.): Roman Germany. Studies in cultural interaction (= Journal of Roman Archeology. Supplementary Series. Volume 32). Portsmouth 1999, ISBN 1-887829-32-6 , pp. 199-244.
• Military camps or marble workshops. New investigations in the eastern area of ​​the work and quarry camp of Simitthus / Chemtou (= Simitthus. Volume 3). von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3461-3 .
• Technology and organization of ARS ware production centers in Tunisia . In: John H. Humphrey (Ed.): Studies on Roman Pottery of the Provinces of Africa Proconsularis and Byzacena (Tunisia). Homage to Michel Bonifay (= Journal of Roman Archeology. Supplementary Series. Volume 76). Portsmouth 2009, ISBN 1-887829-76-8 , pp. 17-44.
• Gasr Wames, a burgus-like small fortress of the middle 3rd century on the Tripolitan limes Tentheitanus (Libya). In: Germania. Volume 87, 2009, pp. 75-104.
• The Severan vexillation fort Myd (---) / Gheriat el-Garbia on the Limes Tripolitanus (Libya). Report on the 2009 campaign . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department . Volume 116, 2010, pp. 363-458.
• The Severan vexillation fort Myd (---) and the late antique settlement in Gheriat el-Garbia (Libya). Report on the campaign in spring 2010 . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department. Volume 117, 2011, pp. 247-375.
• with F. Schimmer: The Roman military site Submuntorium / Burghöfe on the upper Danube. Archaeological investigations in the late Roman fort and vicus 2001–2007 (= Munich Contributions to Provincial Roman Archeology. Volume 5). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-89500-821-4 .
• North African sigillata with relief and stamps from the late 2nd to 6th centuries. Roman tableware from the K. Wilhelm Collection (= Munich Contributions to Provincial Roman Archeology . Volume 8). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-95490-413-6 .
• since 2009 editor of the Munich Contributions to Provincial Roman Archeology (MBPA).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Mackensen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Michael Mackensen at the LMU Munich