Rupert Gebhard

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Rupert Gebhard

Rupert Gebhard (born April 9, 1961 in Munich ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Since 2008 he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Munich and since 2010 chief collection director of the Munich State Archaeological Collection .

Life

Archaeological State Collection Munich. This institution has been headed by Rupert Gebhard since 2010

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Rupert Gebhard studied Prehistory and Early History , Provincial Roman Archeology and European Ethnology in Munich, Bonn and Basel from 1980 to 1984 . As the son of the state curator Torsten Gebhard (1963–1974), who had played a key role in the preparation and technical development of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of 1973, he took part in various excavations of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as a student and worked as a research assistant during his studies Finds at the Ingolstadt branch of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute .

In February 1985 he completed his studies with a Magister Artium and was awarded a doctorate in February 1986 . with the thesis " Dating and technology of Celtic glass from the oppidum of Manching - With a contribution to the chronology of the late Early and Middle La Tène period ". He traveled to France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, as well as Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy as a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He then continued working as a research assistant (DFG) at the Ingolstadt branch, processing primers from the Manching oppidum. During this time he designed the Prehistory and Early History department for the Kempten Alpine Museum .

In 1989 he joined the then Prehistoric State Collection in Munich as a director's assistant and scientific workshop manager , which was now to determine the further professional career. In 1994 he was promoted to scientific workshop manager (Restoration Department) as a conservator and in 2001 to the position of Head of Department for Prehistory and Early History and Restoration. In this function he was also the deputy director of the then renamed State Archaeological Collection.

After research trips - South America (Peru, 1990), North America (Pueblokulturen, 1992/93) - he conceived the exhibition "The Celtic Millennium" in Rosenheim in 1993, in which the Prehistoric State Collection publicly shared the results of the excavations in the oppidum of Manching for the first time Presented evidence of Celtic culture. In 1994/95 he designed and designed the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Museum in Landau adIsar . It was opened as the eleventh branch of the Munich State Archaeological Collection. In 2001 he also provided the concept for the exhibition Magic, Myth, Power - Gold of the Old and New World in Munich.

In 1997 Rupert Gebhard completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg , was given the license to teach the subject of Prehistory and Protohistory and became an adjunct professor there in 2002 . Since 2008 he has also been an adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

After creating the Celtic-Roman Museum in Manching in 2006 as a further branch museum of the Munich State Archaeological Collection - in collaboration with the government of Upper Bavaria - he received the Upper Bavarian Culture Prize . In 2010 he became the chief collection director of this State Archaeological Collection and thus also director of the Munich Museum of Prehistory and Early History. So in 2013 he was also responsible for the exhibition "Alexander the Great - Ruler of the World", which took place as a state archaeological exhibition from March 22nd to November 3rd, 2013 in the exhibition center "Lokschuppen Rosenheim".

The permanent exhibition of the State Archaeological Collection has been closed since August 1, 2016 due to an extensive general renovation. The reopening of the museum is planned for 2020.

Amber face, exhibited in the Bronze Age Bavaria Museum . There is a scientific dispute about the authenticity of the gold and amber finds from Bernstorf .

For several years, Rupert Gebhard and Rüdiger Krause have been in a scientific dispute over authenticity problems in archeology. The circumstances of the so-called depot find of the Nebra Sky Disc and of the gold and amber finds from the Bronze Age fortifications near Bernstorf have not yet been conclusively clarified. Ernst Pernicka and Harald Meller are the main opponents in this dispute, which concerns the evaluation of the scientific investigations on the one hand and the overall circumstances of the finds and their overall evaluation on the other.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The glass jewelry from the Manching oppidum. The excavations in Manching 11 (Stuttgart 1989). - ie at the same time Phil. Diss. Munich 1986.
  • The fibulae from the Manching oppidum. The excavations in Manching 17 (Stuttgart 1991). - ie at the same time part of the cumulative habilitation thesis “Studies on Celtic Crafts in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Hellenistic World”.
  • with Rüdiger Krause : The Bernstorf narrative: Scientific and post-factual information about the gold and amber finds . Archaeological Information, 42 (2019), 251–265. In open access.
  • with Rüdiger Krause : Bernstorf. Archaeological and scientific analyzes of the gold and amber finds from Bernstorfer Berg near Kranzberg, Upper Bavaria (= treatises and inventory catalogs of the Munich State Archaeological Collection. 3 = Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften . 31 = Bernstorf research. 1). Archaeological State Collection Munich, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-927806-43-6 .
  • with Rüdiger Krause, Astrid Röpke and Vanessa Bähr: The Gold von Bernstorf - Authenticity and Context in the Middle Bronze Age of Europe. In: Harald Meller , Roberto Risch, Ernst Pernicka (eds.): Metals of Power - Early Gold and Silver. 6th Central German Archaeological Day from October 17 to 19, 2013 in Halle (Saale). = Metals of power - early gold and silver (= conferences of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. 11, 2). Volume 2. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-944507-13-2 , pp. 761–776.
  • with Rüdiger Krause and Vanessa Bähr: gold, amber and many puzzles. In: Archeology in Germany . 3, 2013, pp. 8-13.
  • The late Celtic group of graves from Hörgertshausen, Ldkr. Freising. In: Claus-Michael Hüssen , Walter Irlinger, Werner Zanier (eds.): Late Latène and early Roman imperial times between the edge of the Alps and the Danube (= colloquia on prehistory and early history. Vol. 8). Habelt, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3297-2 , pp. 105-112.
  • with Werner Häusler, Manfred Moosauer and Ursel Wagner: Remnants of a Bronze Age Rampart in Upper Bavaria: A Mössbauer Study. In: Hyperfine Interactions. 154, 2004, pp. 181-197, doi : 10.1023 / B: HYPE.0000032076.38155.f7 .
  • with Karl Heinz Rieder: Two Bronze Age amber objects with symbols and characters from Bernstorf (Lkr. Freising) . In: Germania . 80, 2002, pp. 115-133.
  • The gold find from Bernstorf. In: Bavarian history sheets . Vol. 64, 1999, pp. 1-18, ( special print online ).
  • as editor with Hermann Dannheimer : The Celtic Millennium (= exhibition catalogs of the Prehistoric State Collection Munich. 23). von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1514-7 .

Web links

Commons : Rupert Gebhard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also the discussion in Wikipedia: Discussion: Nebra Sky Disc / Archive / 2 # Authenticity check of the so-called "Nebra Sky Disc"
  2. ^ Rupert Gebhard, Rüdiger Krause: Authenticity tests: methods, possibilities, limits. In: Rupert Gebhard, Rüdiger Krause: Bernstorf. Archaeological and scientific analyzes of the gold and amber finds from Bernstorfer Berg near Kranzberg, Upper Bavaria (= treatises and inventory catalogs of the Munich State Archaeological Collection. 3 = Frankfurt archaeological writings. 31 = Bernstorf research. 1). Archaeological State Collection Munich, Munich 2016, pp. 25–44. - Available online.
  3. ↑ Purest gold. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , January 15, 2017, p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Gebhard, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich