Stephan Bender (archaeologist)

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Stephan Bender (born December 30, 1965 in Gießen ; † June 20, 2019 ) was a German archaeologist .

education

Stephan Bender made after high school initially a two-year military service before he first at the universities since 1987 Frankfurt , then in Freiburg , Provincial Roman Archeology with minors in Classical Archeology and Ancient History studied. After completing his studies in 1994 , he did his doctorate in Frankfurt on bronze bowls with flat horizontal handles (" casseroles ") in the vicinity of the sites of Naples , Pompeii and Herculaneum . The doctorate was completed in 2007.

From 2000 onwards he recorded the inventory of sites along the Roman Limes running through Hesse for the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in preparation for the joint application of the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria to include the complex in the UNESCO World Heritage List . He then played a key role in drafting the Limes development plan for Hesse, which was completed in 2005, the same year that the Limes was recognized as a World Heritage Site and Stephan Bender was the first Limes commissioner for the State of Hesse.

In 2007 Stephan Bender moved to Baden-Württemberg, where he set up the Limes Information Center at the Limes Museum Aalen and took over its management, since 2013 as an employee of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg . At the same time he continued his research on the Limes, being the first to discover the traces of wooden watchtowers in the western area of ​​the Rhaetian Limes , the small fort at Limestor Dalkingen and the extension of the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes into the Neckar foreland .

In 2015 he became head of the newly established “World Heritage Archeology” department at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg.

literature

By and with the participation of Stephan Bender

sorted by year of publication

  • Bronze bowls with flat horizontal handles ("casseroles") - Archaeological and metrological studies on finds from the Roman settlements on Vesuvius . [Dissertation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, unpublished].
  • The Justinusfelsen. Leaflet for the Roman rock inscription and the Limes in the Aartal near Bad Schwalbach . State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Wiesbaden 2005. ISBN 978-3-89822-165-8
  • The Limes as a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Konrad Theiss 2008. ISBN 978-3-8062-2118-3
  • UNESCO World Heritage Borders of the Roman Empire. Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes in Baden-Württemberg . State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council, Esslingen 2011.
  • The Limes in the Ostalb district . Einhorn, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2013. ISBN 978-3-936373-92-9
  • The Limestor near Dalkingen ISBN 978-3-8062-3033-8 in research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg 129 ISSN 0724-4347. Theiss, Darmstadt 2014.
  • At the Limes - active. Experience Limes, feel how the Romans lived . 3. Edition. Waiblingen / Aalen 2015. Without ISBN.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice .
  2. ↑ Verhoeven, p. 56.
  3. ↑ NN: Dr. Stephan Bender , p. 151.
  4. ^ NN: Obituary , p. 203; Verhoeven (p. 56) mentions the year 1993.
  5. ^ Homepage of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
  6. ↑ NN: obituary , S. 203rd
  7. ^ NN: Obituary , p. 203; Verhoeven, p. 56.
  8. ^ Limes development plan for Hesse on the homepage of the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse.
  9. ↑ NN: obituary , S. 203rd
  10. ^ NN: Obituary , p. 204.
  11. ^ NN: Obituary , p. 204.
  12. ^ Homepage of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2019