Raimund Karl

Raimund Karl (born September 15, 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian archaeologist , Celtologist and historian , currently Professor of Archeology and Heritage and head of the School of History, Welsh History and Archeology at the University of Wales , Bangor (Wales) .

Life

From 1987 to 1995 Karl studied prehistory and early history and a combination of subjects on the subject of the Celts at the University of Vienna . He attended additional courses in Egyptology , ethnology , classical archeology , ancient history , numismatics and linguistics . This was followed by a doctorate in prehistory and early history, which he completed in 2003. His habilitation process took place between 2005 and 2006, and his habilitation thesis was published in 2006 under the title Old Celtic Social Structures . More than a hundred specialist publications, including numerous extensive and fundamental ones, make him a well-known and important prehistorian in Austria and Central and Western Europe.

2000–2001 he worked as a legal representative in the Office for Youth and Family of the City of Vienna.

In October 2001 he went to the University of Wales Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies as an AHRB (now: AHRC) Research Fellow , where he worked on the creation of an Atlas for Celtic Studies and the Celtic Culture encyclopedia as part of Project 5 - Celtic identity - A Historical Encyclopedia Collaborated. In 2002 he also taught archeology at the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth . In January 2003 he moved from Aberystwyth to the University of Wales, Bangor, as a lecturer in Archeology and Heritage . In 2006 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and in 2008 Professor of Archeology and Heritage. He has also been Head of School since 2007.

Since 2004 he has been a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . In 2005 he became a member of the Board of Celtic Studies , to which he was a member until its dissolution in 2007. Since 2007 he has been the representative for prehistoric archeology in the successor organization of the Board of Celtic Studies, the "Publications and Collaborative Research Committee" of the Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies . Also in 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London .

Research priorities

• Archeology of the European Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and the Northwest European Early Middle Ages
• Archaeological Theory
• Celtic antiquity
• Social History of Celtic Antiquity
• Celtic legal history
• Monument and cultural property protection
• Museology
• Labor market in archeology
• Discovering the archaeologists of Austria ( http://discovering-archaeologists.eu/ )
• Safety and health in archaeological field research

Fonts

• Introduction to Celtology in cultural studies. PDF file (7 MB, 239 pages)
• Old Celtic social structures , Budapest, Archaeolingua 2006, ISBN 963-8046-69-4 , [1] (PDF; 6.2 MB)
• with David Stifter (Ed.), The Celtic World , (4 vol.), London, Routledge 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-35711-1

Web links

• Homepage of Raimund Karl
• http://www.bangor.ac.uk/history/about_the_school/staff/lecture_staff/raimund_karl/index.php.en