Peter Noelke

Peter Noelke (born February 13, 1941 in Bielefeld ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Peter Noelke completed his studies in 1973 with a master's degree from the University of Bonn . In 1981 he was at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the Jupiter column in the Germanic provinces doctorate . Between 1982 and 1995 Noelke was a lecturer at the University of Cologne . In 1997 he was appointed honorary professor there.

From 1971 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . In 1974 he became a lecturer at the museums of the city of Cologne , then initially a scientific consultant, then curator at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne. From 1985 to 2006 he was director of the Cologne Museum Service . In 2001 Noelke became a member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Noelke's research area is the sculpture of the Roman provinces. For example, he is researching the Roman grave reliefs with depictions of meals in the two Germania and their neighboring regions, the stone monuments of Roman Cologne, the Cologne collections of ancient stone monuments from humanism to the Enlightenment, as well as tank statues and the genus of honorary statues in the northern border provinces of the Roman Empire.

Fonts (selection)

• The Jupiter columns in the Germanic provinces (= supplements of the Bonner Jahrbücher vol. 41). Rheinland-Verlag / Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1981, ISBN 3-7927-0502-8
• (Ed.) Cologne Museum Guide (= Discover Cologne, Vol. 5). Wienand, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-87909-154-4
• (Ed.) Archaeological museums and sites of Roman antiquity. On the way from the treasure house to the adventure park and virtual information center? Lectures at the 2nd International Colloquium on Education in Museums, Cologne, 3.-6. May 1999 (= series of publications of the Museumsdienst Köln Vol. 4), Habelt, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7749-3063-5
• (Ed.) Romanization and resistance in sculpture, architecture and inscriptions of the provinces of the Roman Empire. Files of the VII. International Colloquium on Problems of Provincial Roman Art, Cologne, 2.-6. May 2001. New finds and research . Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3089-8
• Iconoclasm and reuse using the example of the Iuppiter columns in the Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission 87, 2006, pp. 273–386.
• Sculpture workshops in Roman Germania. Possibilities and limits of their proof. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 206, 2006, 87–144.
• Cologne collections and Cologne finds of ancient stone monuments in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kölner Jahrbuch 40, 2007, 159–213.
• The "Roemergrab" in Weiden and the burial chambers in the Germanic provinces. Kölner Jahrbuch 41, 2008, 437–504.
• New finds of Jupiter columns and pillars in Germania inferior along with additions to the earlier holdings (with contributions from TASM Panhuysen). In: Bonner Jahrbücher 210/211, 2010/2011, pp. 149–374.
• Tairies with representations and references to victims in Germania inferior and the other northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. In: Yearbook of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 58, 2011, pp. 467–590.

Web links

• Peter Noelke on the website of the University of Cologne