Peter-Andrew Black

Peter-Andrew Schwarz (born October 26, 1960 in Brooklyn ) is a Swiss -born Swiss provincial Roman archaeologist .

Peter-Andrew Schwarz was born in New York City , but his family moved to Switzerland in 1968, where he attended primary school until 1972 . In 1972 he moved to the Humanist Gymnasium in Basel , where he focused on learning ancient languages and graduated in 1982 . In 1984 he began studying prehistory and early history , medieval archeology and folklore at the University of Basel . In 1989 he passed the licentiate examination with a thesis on Mont Teri . He then became head of the Augst / Kaiseraugst excavation department in Augusta Raurica . He received his doctorate in May 1997 in Basel with a thesis on the late Roman castles .

In 1998, Schwarz became a canton archaeologist in Basel-Stadt . Four years later he moved to the University of Basel, where he became a lecturer and co-director of the interdisciplinary excavation and research project “ Oedenburg ”, which was carried out by the École pratique des hautes études Paris IV, the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Basel. He completed his habilitation in July 2004 with a thesis on prehistoric settlement remains and the early imperial wooden buildings on the Kastelenplateau at the University of Passau . Since November 2004 he has owned the venia legendi at the University of Passau, where he taught as a private lecturer until 2009 and represented Roman provincial archeology. Since 2010 he has held the Vindonissa Professorship at the University of Basel .

Schwarz has been a member of the Commission for the Inventory of Found Coins in Switzerland (IFS) of the Swiss Academy of Humanities since 2002 .

Fonts

• Inscriptiones Selectae Coloniae Augustae Rauricorum. Selected inscriptions from Augst and Kaiseraugst. Römermuseum Augst, Augst 1988 (Augster sheets from Roman times, Volume 6) ISBN 3-7151-2006-1
• The late La Tène and late Roman hilltop settlement on Mont Terri (Cornol JU). The results of the 1987 excavation campaign. Habegger, Derendingen-Solothurn 1993 (Basel contributions to prehistory and early history, volume 13) ISBN 3-85723-342-7
• with Ludwig Berger (ed.): Tituli Rauracenses 1, testimony and essays. On the names and selected inscriptions of Augst and Kaiseraugst. Römermuseum Augst, Augst 2000 (Research in Augst, Volume 29) ISBN 3-7151-0029-X
• The archaeological information center “Outside Crypt” under the Palatinate of the Basler Minster , Archaeological Soil Research of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Basel 2001 (Archaeological Monuments in Basel, Volume 1) ISBN 3-905098-31-8
• Kastelen 4. The north wall and the remains of the internal buildings of the late Roman fortifications on Kastelen. The results of the excavation 1991-1993.51 in the area of ​​the Insula 1 and the Insula 2. Augst 2002 (Research in Augst, Volume 24) ISBN 3-7151-0024-9
• Kastelen 1. The prehistoric settlement remains and the early imperial wooden buildings on the Kastelen plateau. The results of the excavations 1991–1993.51 as well as 1979–1980.55 and 1980.53 in the area of ​​the insulae 1, 2, 5 and 6 of Augusta Raurica. Augst 2004 (Research in Augst 21) ISBN 3-7151-0021-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter-Andrew Schwarz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter-Andrew Schwarz in the Helveticat catalog
• University side at the University of Passau