Michael Sturm-Berger

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Michael Sturm-Berger (born October 29, 1958 in Kelkheim / Main-Taunus-Kreis ) is a German prehistoric and religious scholar .

Life

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In 1973 Michael Sturm-Berger began researching the prehistory and early history of his home region. He completed his studies in Mainz with Michael Müller-Wille and in Frankfurt am Main with Günter Smolla , Hermann Müller-Karpe , Heinz Röhr , Hans-Werner Bartsch , Willy Schottroff , Karlheinz Deller and others in 1987 with a Magister Artium. In 1988 he moved to Berlin, where he married the chemist Jutta Berger in 1989. Since 1990 he has been actively involved in interreligious dialogue ( Religions for Peace ). In 1995 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main. 1996–1998 he worked in the archeology of the state of Brandenburg as a find processor. Since 2000 he has been the business coordinator of the oldest still existing German association for interreligious cooperation, the Working Group of Churches and Religious Societies (AKR) Berlin e. V., active. From 2003 he was employed at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin . He has been a freelance lecturer since 2009 - also at the universities of Potsdam and Erfurt.

His research focuses on the history of interreligious dialogue and prehistoric religions.

Publications (selection)

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  • Grave mounds in the Main-Taunus-Kreis and related finds, Hofheim 1987.
  • Characteristics and essence of prophethood. A comparative study of religions. Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-92913416-0
  • Sun, mirror, tree of life. Contributions to religious research, Berlin-Tempelhof 1999
  • Pastor Dr. Gustav A. Fobbe and the interreligious "secret" at Gesundbrunnen. A biography on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of his death on February 9, 2012, Erfurt-Hochheim 2012.
  • Traces of Roman settlement in the Taunus foreland, in: Rad und rafter. Journal of the Historisches Verein Rhein-Main-Taunus e. V., Frankfurt am Main, 2nd year, December 1976, issue 2 (3), pp. 3–6
  • The Hühnerberg, a prehistoric site near Kelkheim, in: Kelkheim im Taunus, contributions to the history of its districts, Kelkheim 1980, pp. 13-19
  • News about burial mounds in the Main-Taunus-Kreis and related finds, in: Michael Sturm / Ernst Schütz, About burial mounds in the Diedenbergen district and new discoveries in the Main-Taunus-Kreis (= Diedenberger Heimatgeschichtsverein e.V., Heimatgeschichtliche Manuskripte No. 36) , Hofheim-Diedenbergen 1990, pp. 1502–1515 (of which pp. 1507–1515)
  • On the importance of burial mounds and related finds for religious, settlement and social history using examples from the Main-Taunus district, in: ur- und early (Hornburg / Harz) 3/1991, pp. 4-15 (part 1 ), and 4/1991, pp. 29–37 (part 2)
  • Designations of God in some languages ​​of the peoples of Eurasia, in: Adorants. Årsskrift 1991 for Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art, Tanumshede / Schweden 1992, pp. 30-39
  • Prehistoric and early historical finds from the districts of Oberliederbach and Niederhofheim, in: Liederbach in der Geschichte, ed. v. Community council Liederbach am Taunus, there o. J. (1993), pp. 13-16
  • The Celtic bronze mirror from Hochheim am Main, in: Imago Mundi. Mirror of the Past, Vol. 1: Archaeological Finds in Nassauer Land, ed. v. Kult-Ur-Institut, Lollschied / Rhineland-Palatinate 1993, pp. 29–32 (= chapter 6)
  • Prehistoric rock paintings as sources of religious history, in: Adoranten 1995/96, pp. 37–43
  • On the significance of the depictions of ducks, geese and swans in European Bronze and Iron Age cultures, in: Adoranten 2002/03, pp. 63–84
  • Interreligious Dialogue and Bahá'í Identity. Approaching an important set of questions, in: Bahá'í-Nachrichten 1/160, Hofheim-Langenhain April 2003, p. 14
  • Myth of the European waterfowl. Again on ducks, geese, swans ..., in: Adoranten 2004/05, pp. 118f
  • From Taunus to Taurus - Thoughts on Religiousness in the Early Neolithic Age (Erfurt 2013)
  • Findings and finds from Staufen near Kelkheim (Main-Taunus-Kreis) (Erfurt 2013/14)
  • Cult traces from the time of the Great Migration in the southern Taunus? - Observations and reflections on the Heidenkeller near Hofheim-Lorsbach (Main-Taunus-Kreis) and its surroundings (Erfurt 2015)
  • Brief introduction to prehistory and the history of religious archeology (Erfurt, April 8, 2015)
  • Charles William Wendte as an interreligious bridge builder, in: From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Albert Schweitzer: History and Future of Unitarian and Liberal Religion in Germany, Göttingen 2017
  • What reforms is the Bahá'í religion striving for? (Erfurt, December 13, 2017)
  • What can we say about prehistoric religions? History and archeology, blog by Michael Sturm-Berger. Cologne 2018.
  • Summary of the history, principles, and ethics of the Bahá'í Religion. History and archeology, blog by Michael Sturm-Berger. Cologne 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Sturm-Berger, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelkheim (Taunus)