Salvatore Ortisi

Salvatore Ortisi, 2015

Salvatore Ortisi (* 1965 in Palling ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Salvatore Ortisi graduated from high school in Grafing in 1985 and then did his military service until 1986. In 1987 he began to study Roman provincial archeology, prehistory and early history as well as ancient history at the University of Munich . In 1990/1991 Ortisi went abroad to Cardiff University (now the University of Wales ). During this time he was funded by a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and a doctoral grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . He finished his studies in 1998 with a doctorate , the subject of the dissertation was The city wall of the Raetian provincial capital Aelia Augusta - Augsburg. The excavations at Lange Gasse 11, Auf dem Kreuz 58, Heilig-Kreuz-Str. 26 and 4 . In 2003 he became an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne . After being here in 2009 habilitation had, he was assistant professor and lecturer . In 2009 he received the teaching award from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne. In 2010/2011 a substitute professorship led him back to the University of Munich. On April 1, 2015, Ortisi was appointed to the University of Osnabrück as a W-2 university professor for the archeology of the Roman provinces as the successor to Günther Moosbauer , who moved to the Straubing Gäubodenmuseum in 2013 . Since October 2016, he has succeeded Michael Mackensen as Professor of Provincial Roman Archeology at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Munich.

Press conference for the announcement of the Roman Marchers from Wilkenburg in the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation (from left to right): Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf , Joachim Härtling , Salvatore Ortisi, Stefan Winghart , Henning Haßmann

Ortisi gained extensive excavation experience as a student, for example from 1987 to 1992 during excavations in Augsburg , Kellmünz , Selinunt and Syracuse . In 1990 he worked as part of the catacomb project of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in the catacomb Via Anapo . In 1995 he was in charge of the local excavation management in the late antique border fort Caelius Mons in Kellmünz, and from 1997 to 2000 he was in charge of the excavation in the so-called Macellum of Ostia . In 1999 he led the excavations in the Celtic Viereckschanze in Alxing and worked on the Deir-el-Bakhit project in 2001 and on the Petersberg near Flintsbach project of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Munich in 2003 . In 2001 Ortisi also carried out research excavations in the late antique border fort of Submuntorium ( castle courtyards ). Since 2009 he has been in charge of prospecting and excavation in the Roman vicus of Nettersheim in cooperation with the Rhenish Office for Ground Monument Preservation and the municipality, and since 2012 prospecting and excavations for the Kimmerick cooperative project in the Crimea. A border town of the Bosporan Empire  ? In 2015 Ortisi became head of the science department at the Kalkriese Museum and Park . Since January 2016 he is also a member of the Commission empire and Barbaricum the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities .

Publications

• The city wall of the Raetian provincial capital Aelia Augusta - Augsburg. The excavations at Lange Gasse 11, Auf dem Kreuz 58, Heilig-Kreuz-Str. 26 and 4. (= Augsburg contributions to archeology , volume 2), Wißner, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-89639-288-3 .
• with Philipp M. Pröttel: Roman small finds from castle courtyards, Volume 2: The early and middle imperial fibulas. The late Roman metal finds. ISBN 3-89646-535-X .
• Military equipment and harness from the Vesuvius cities. (= Palilia , Volume 29), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-95490-021-3 .
• with Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Dieter Mertens : The walls of Syracuse. The Euryalus Castle and the fortification of the Epipolai. (= Special publications of the German Archaeological Institute Rome , Volume 18), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95490-033-6 .

Web links

Commons : Salvatore Ortisi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website at the University of Munich
• Portrait on the website of the University of Osnabrück

Remarks

1. ↑ Ortisi at stayfriends.de ( Memento from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ The University of Osnabrück has given the President of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation (NLD), Dr. Stefan Winghart, awarded an honorary professorship in February 2015.