Michael Matzke

Michael Matzke (born October 28, 1966 ; † May 20, 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German numismatist and medieval historian .

Career

Michael Matzke studied medieval history, art history, empirical cultural studies and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Tübingen and the University of Pisa . From 1991 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences, at the Research Center for Islamic Numismatics in Tübingen and at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen. In 1995 he was in Tübingen in Medieval history with a dissertation on Archbishop Dagobert of Pisa doctorate . From 1996 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen for the project Medieval Coin Minting in Mining Regions , and from 1996 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the History Faculty of the University of Tübingen. From 1999 to 2001 Michael Matzke worked at the coin cabinet of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge , initially for the Medieval European Coinage project , then as a curator of ancient and medieval coins. From 2001 to 2006 he was a research assistant for medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Marburg . Since February 1, 2006, he has been curator of the Münzkabinett at the Basel Historical Museum . Since 2007 he has also had a temporary teaching position at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . Since 2015 he has also been a member of the Swiss Fund Inventory Project . In 2017 he received the honorary award of the Society for International Monetary History .

Publications (selection)

• Daibert of Pisa. Between Pisa, Pope and the First Crusade (= lectures and research, special volume 44). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1998, ISBN 3-7995-6754-2 .
• with Dietrich Mannsperger : Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum . Germany. Collection of the University of Tübingen. Book 6: Phrygia - Cappadocia. Roman provincial coins in Asia Minor. Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7460-6 .
• with Wolfgang Heß , Bernd Breyvogel: Dirham and Rappenpfennig 2: Medieval coinage in south-west Germany (= magazine for archeology of the Middle Ages. Supplement 19). Habelt, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3299-9 .
• The Basel treasure find from 1854 and the riddle of the Solomon denarii. Baumann & Cie, Banquiers , Basel 2010 (Basler Kostbarkeiten 31), ISBN 978-3-9523739-0-3 .
• with José Diaz Tabernero, Hans-Ulrich Geiger : Cantone Ticino. Ritrovamenti monetali da chiese (= inventory of Swiss coins found. Volume 10). Bern 2012, ISBN 978-2-940086-09-2 .
• City in the S (p) iegel. Basel's oldest city seal. Baumann & Cie, Banquiers, Basel 2015 (Basler Kostbarkeiten 36), ISBN 978-3-9524338-3-6

literature

• New curator for the coin cabinet of the Basel Historical Museum . In: Schweizer Münzblätter 56/57, 2006/07, issue 221, p. 31.
• Obituary . In: CoinsWeekly .
• Obituary . In: Basler Zeitung

Web links

• Publications by Michael Matzke in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• List of publications by Michael Matzke on the website of the Inventory of Swiss Fund Coins project
• List of publications by Michael Matzke on the website of the University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary .