Rüdiger Krause (prehistoric)

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Rüdiger Krause (born April 3, 1958 in Baghdad ) is a German prehistorian and university professor. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Prehistory and Early History in Europe at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Rüdiger Krause, Jan. 2019 at the University of Frankfurt

Career

Krause already showed a keen interest in local archeology as a schoolboy, and since 1973 he has worked as an "honorary officer" at the State Monuments Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation in Stuttgart. 1978-1982 he studied prehistory at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen with Franz Fischer and with Georg Kossack in Munich; his minor subjects were geology and anthropology. During his studies he took a. a. participated in excavations in Iraq, Jordan and southern Germany. In 1983 he completed his studies in Tübingen with a Magister Artium, his master's thesis was for the Roman Murrhardt Fort (Baden-Württemberg). In 1986 he received his doctorate from Franz Fischer in Tübingen, with a thesis on the early Bronze Age burial ground of Singen am Hohentwiel . He then received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and toured the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey.

job

From 1987 to 2006 he worked for the Archaeological Monument Preservation in Stuttgart . In addition to his duties as a conservator , he carried out several major projects, in particular the excavation of the ceramic ribbon settlement near Vaihingen an der Enz and, in the vicinity of the Ipf near Bopfingen, the excavation of the Celtic Viereckschanze of Bopfingen-Flochberg. He also taught at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin from 1996-2005 . There he completed his habilitation in 2000 with the thesis "Studies on the Copper and Early Bronze Age Metallurgy between the Carpathian Basin and the Baltic Sea".

Since 2006 he has been Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory in Europe at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His main research interests are the Bronze Age settlement and economic history, the subject area "Landscape history and environment", castle research, as well as early metallurgy and the extraction of ores. Specific research projects include, for example, the Bronze Age fortification in Bernstorf , the inner-Alpine settlement and mining landscape in Montafon (Vorarlberg), the Bronze Age Sintašta culture in the Trans-Urals on the northern edge of the Eurasian Steppe (Russian Federation), as well as Bronze and Early Iron Age mega-sites on Eastern edge of the Hungarian Plain in the Romanian Banat.

Together with Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Jan-Waalke Meyer and Wulf Raeck , Krause publishes the Frankfurt Archaeological Writings .

Memberships and special functions

  • 1999 appointment as a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.
  • Since 2010 member of the scientific advisory board and board of trustees of the Frobenius Institute at the University of Frankfurt.
  • 2010-2019 Applicant and 2nd speaker of the Research Training Group "Value and Equivalent. On the Origin and Transformation of Values ​​from an Archaeological and Ethnological Perspective" (DFG-GRK 1576).
  • Elected member of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt since 2013 (Scientific Advisory Board since 2020).
  • From 2016 to 2019, together with Svend Hansen, speaker of the LOEWE focus "Prehistoric Conflict Research".

Awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • R. Krause, The end-neolithic and early Bronze Age grave finds on the north terrace of Singen am Hohentwiel. Grave finds from Singen am Hohentwiel. Research u. Ber. on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg 32 (Stuttgart 1988).
  • R. Krause, Studies on the Copper Age and Early Bronze Age Metallurgy between the Carpathian Basin and the Baltic Sea. Prehistoric research 24 (Rahden 2003).
  • R. Krause (Ed.), Medieval mining on the Kristberg in Montafon, Vorarlberg (Austria). Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 22 (Bonn 2013).
  • R. Krause / LN Koryakova (eds.), Multidisciplinary investigations of the Bronze Age settlements in the southern Trans-Urals (Russia). Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 23 (Bonn 2013).
  • R. Krause / LN Korjakova (eds.), Between Tradition and Innovation. Studies on the Bronze Age in the Trans-Urals (Russian Federation). Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 28 (Bonn 2014).
  • R. Krause (Ed.), New research on the early Celtic prince seat on the Ipf. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 24; Ipf research 1 (Bonn 2014).
  • R. Krause, Archeology in the Mountains. Montafon time machine. Early settlement history and mining in the Montafon, Vorarlberg (Austria) (Bartholomäberg / Bonn 2015).
  • R. Krause, The Ipf. Prince seat in the focus of archeology (Stuttgart 2015).
  • R. Gebhard / R. Krause, Bernstorf - Archaeological and scientific analyzes of the gold and amber finds from the Bernstorfer Berg near Kranzberg, Upper Bavaria. Treatises and inventory catalogs of the State Archaeological Collection, Volume 3 (Munich 2016).
  • S. Hansen / R. Krause (eds.), Bronze Age Hillforts between Taunus and Carpathian Mountains. Proceedings of the First International LOEWE Conference, 7-9 December 2016 in Frankfurt / M. University research on prehistoric archeology 319 (Bonn 2018).
  • S. Hansen / R. Krause (eds.), Bronze Age Fortresses in Europe. Proceedings of the Second International LOEWE Conference, 9-13 October 2017 in Alba Iulia (Romania). University research prehistoric archeology 346, prehistoric conflict research 3 (Bonn 2019).
  • S. Hansen / R. Krause (eds.), Materialization of Conflicts. Proceedings of the Third International LOEWE Conference, 24th - 27th September 2018 in Fulda (Hesse, Germany). Universitätsforschungen prehistoric archeology 346, prehistoric conflict research 4 (Bonn 2019).
  • R. Krause (Ed.), Archaeological Contributions to the Bronze and Iron Ages on the Ipf. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften 40, Ipf-Forschungen 3 (Bonn 2020).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in: Fund reports from Baden-Württemberg 9 (1984), 289-358.
  2. ↑ Published in the series "Research and Reports on Prehistory and Early History in Baden-Württemberg 32 (1988)".
  3. ↑ Website of the Graduate School "Value and Equivalent"
  4. ^ Prehistoric Conflict Research - Castles of the Bronze Age , State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence (LOEWE). (accessed on May 17, 2016) .
  5. ^ Vorarlberger Landtag Vorarlberger Wissenschaftspreis 2007 for research on the earliest settlement history in the Montafon , April 16, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad