Michael Prange

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Michael Prange (born September 6, 1968 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German chemist, archaeometallurge and materials scientist. He is Professor of Applied Materials Science at the Georg Agricola University of Technology and Head of the Materials Science Research Department at the German Mining Museum in Bochum .

Life

Prange studied chemistry from 1989 to 1994 at the Ruhr University Bochum (graduation as a chemist). From 1996 to 1999 he was a research assistant at DMT-LB mbH , in the research areas of archaeometallurgy and mining archeology at the German Mining Museum in Bochum.

In 1999 he was born in Bochum with the work “5000 years of copper in Oman. Comparative investigations of Omani copper using chemical and isotopic analysis methods ”. After completing his dissertation, Prange became project manager at the archaeometallurgy research department at the German Mining Museum in Bochum and editor of the METALLA magazine.

From 2007 to 2013 Prange was deputy head of the materials laboratory at the German Mining Museum in Bochum. Prange has been head of the materials science research department since 2012 , after his predecessor Stefan Brüggerhoff became director of the Bochum Museum. In 2015 Prange was appointed professor for applied materials science at the Georg Agricola Technical University, founded in 1816, parallel to his functions at the German Mining Museum in Bochum . Prange was named the best lecturer for special tasks in a university-wide competition. He is the deputy laboratory manager of the university laboratory for materials technology . As a lecturer, Prange also regularly teaches at the Archaeological Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum.

In 2018, Prange took on additional responsibilities at the German Mining Museum in Bochum. In addition to heading the materials science research area and the research laboratory located there, he is deputy head of the research department with a total of four research areas and is also deputy director of the mining history research area. Prange is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute as well as a full member of the working group “Cluster research technical-social: Metals”. Prange belongs to the Society of German Chemists as well as to the Society for Natural Scientific Archeology ARCHÄOMETRIE eV

Politically, Prange campaigns for the right to award doctorates at universities of applied sciences. Prange is also a project management specialist and has specialist knowledge of radiation protection . He is therefore the radiation protection officer of DMT-LB mbH. As a professor for applied materials science, Michael Prange mainly teaches on metallurgy . His regular lectures include material characterization, damage analysis , operational strength theory and the topic of corrosion and tribo-sensitivity.

Michael Prange is married and lives in Wetter an der Ruhr .

research

Prange deals with both archaeological finds from the early history of mining and the development of high-tech materials for industry. The research projects in which Prange is significantly involved range from the Copper Age settlement mound in Magura , to prehistoric and ancient lead and silver mining in Ibiza, to investigations on the so-called copper wreck in the Greifswalder Bodden . Prange and his team are currently also looking into the actual location of the Varus Battle . The question of the preservation of plastics, especially in museum objects, has received special attention in recent years . Here, Prange and the Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences are researching ways of protecting cultural heritage objects from the 19th and 20th centuries from decay on behalf of the NRW Ministry of Science .

Publications (selection)

  • with A. Hauptmann, C. Bendall, G. Brey, I. Dschapardize, I. Gambaschidze, S. Klein, T. Stöllner: Gold in Georgia. Analytical investigations on gold artifacts and natural gold from the Caucasus and the Transcaucasus . In: S. Hansen, A. Hauptmann, I. Motzenbäcker, E. Pernicka (Eds.): From Majkop to Trialeti - extraction and distribution of metals and obsidian in the Caucasus in the 4th – 2nd centuries . Millennium BC Chr. (= Colloquia on Pre- and Early History 13), Bonn, pp. 139–160
  • The Inca-period copper mine near El Abra . In: R. Slotta, I. Schnepel (Ed.): Treasures of the Andes, Chiles Kupfer für die Welt , Bochum, pp. 225–230.
  • with MH Hermanns, Ü. Yalcin: Pre-Roman mining on Ibiza . In: A. Hauptmann, D. Modarressi-Tehrani & M. Prange (eds.): Archaeometallurgy in Europe III , Metalla special edition 4, p. 132
  • with Thomas Stöllner , E. Breitenlechner, D. Fritzsch, A. Gontscharov, K. Hanke, D. Kirchner, K. Kovacs, M. Moser, K. Nicolussi, K. Oegg, Th.Pichler, S. Pils, H. Thiemeyer, P. Thomas: A wet processing box from the Troiboden . In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum , No. 57, 2010, pp. 1–32
  • Results of the first analytical investigations of gold coins . In: Neues Gold aus Kalkriese , VARUSSCHLACHT im Osnabrücker LandgGmbH - Museum and Park Kalkriese (ed.), 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TH Georg Agricola: Detail - TH Georg Agricola. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Prange, Prof. Dr. Michael. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  3. ^ TH Georg Agricola: TFH appoints material researcher Michael Prange from the German Mining Museum as professor - TH Georg Agricola. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  4. ^ TH Georg Agricola: Detail - TH Georg Agricola. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Prange, Prof. Dr. Michael. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Andreas Böhme: Bochum researchers want to solve puzzles about the Varus Battle . ( waz.de [accessed September 24, 2018]).
  7. ^ TH Georg Agricola: New high-tech devices: TH Georg Agricola receives funding from the NRW Ministry of Science - TH Georg Agricola. Retrieved September 24, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Prange, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist, archaeometallist and materials scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel