Otto Helmut Urban

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Otto Helmut Urban (born December 29, 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian prehistoric archaeologist and university professor.

Life

Urban began studying prehistory and early history at the University of Vienna in 1975 . He received his doctorate in 1982 and completed his habilitation on June 30, 1994. He has been an associate professor at the University of Vienna since 1997, and from 2000 to 2008 he was director of the Institute for Prehistory at the University of Vienna. As head of the study program for Prehistory and Protohistory, Egyptology and Jewish Studies from 2004 to 2012, he carried out the Bologna Process in Prehistory and Protohistory and designed the corresponding Bachelor and Master curriculum.

Urban’s research focuses on the prehistory of Austria , the late Iron Age ( Celts ) as well as methodology and research history. In addition, he deals with the provincial archeology of Noricum and Pannonia .

The current summary of the prehistory of Austria comes from Urban, deliberately succeeding Moriz Hoernes , Oswald Menghin and Richard Pittioni . A particular concern for him is the appropriate knowledge information for young people and the general public (see his numerous articles in science.orf.at). Numerous contributions in recent years deal with Oswald Menghin, who, as Minister of Education in the Seyß-Inquart cabinet, implemented the Nuremberg Race Laws at the universities of Austria in 1938 and, as a representative of cultural theory, introduced various racist approaches to research on prehistory.

He was a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Protohistory, leads excavations in Austria ( Braunsberg near Hainburg , Vienna - Leopoldsberg , Göttweig , Linz - Freinberg and Gründberg as well as Schwarzenbach and Kulm near Weiz) and France ( Bibracte and Vix ) and has initiated and designed numerous exhibitions. In 2010 Urban was elected a real member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and initiated a two-volume lexicon on Celtic archeology with more than 300 authors.

Publications (selection)

  • Guide to the prehistory of Austria , Vienna 1989.
  • Junior guide to the prehistory of Austria , Vienna 1989.
  • Prehistory , Austria Lexicon , Vienna 1995.
  • Sondages on the fortifications . In: Rapport annuel d'activite scientifique 1998 du Center archeologique europeen du Mont Beuvray , Glux-en-Glenne 1998, p. 51ff.
  • Celts on the Leopoldsberg . In: 21st Austrian Historians' Day 1996 in Vienna , Vienna 1998, pp. 135ff.
  • The long way to the history of Austria. Austrian history up to 15 BC Chr. , Vienna 2000.
  • The Braunsberg yesterday, today and tomorrow . In: Mitteilungen der Freunde Carnuntum No. 2, 2001, p. 24ff.
  • with Susanne Sievers , Peter C. Ramsl (Ed.): Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. (= Communications from the prehistoric commission ). 2 volumes. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Urban, Otto Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, Otto H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prehistorian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna