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Sunhild Kleingärtner (2018)

Sunhild Kleingärtner (* 1974 in Wolfsburg ) is a German historian and archaeologist .

Scientific career

Sunhild Kleingärtner began studying prehistory, early history , classical archeology and art history at the University of Kiel in 1994 . In 2000, she obtained her Magister Artium degree with a thesis on fibulae and pendants of the Terslev type and their cast imitations . She then worked as a research assistant at the Kiel Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, and also took over the management of terrestrial and subaquatic excavations .

Kleingärtner received his doctorate in 2004 (topic of the dissertation: The press model discovery from the port of Haithabu ). She then worked as a research assistant in the Tissø project at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen and, until 2006, a volunteer in the field of soil as well as architectural and art monument preservation at the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg in Esslingen a. N. Then she returned to Kiel to take up a position as a research assistant at the University's Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, which she held until 2012. In the same year she completed her habilitation with a paper on The Early Phase of Urbanization in the Early Middle Ages on the southern Baltic coast . In it, she examines the emergence of early medieval sea trading centers on the southern Baltic coast between Kiel Fjord and Stettiner Haff. This was followed by a short period of collaboration in the project settlement and cultural history of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea Region at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research in Wilhelmshaven .

In 2013, Kleingärtner became managing director of the German Maritime Museum Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven and Professor of Maritime History and Maritime Archeology at the University of Bremen .

Publications (selection)

• Edited with T. Newfield, S. Rossignol and D. Wehner: Landscapes and Societies in Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations , Toronto 2013.
• Edited with U. Müller and J. Scheschkewitz: Cultural change in the field of tension between tradition and innovation. Festschrift for Michael Müller-Wille , Neumünster 2013.
• Robbery, looting, murder or other reasons for giving up the early medieval sea trading centers on the southern Baltic coast? , in: O. Heinrich-Tamáska (ed.): Robbery, plunder, murder - evidence of destruction and military violence in archaeological evidence , Hamburg 2013, pp. 357–372.
• Settlement archeological studies between Schwentine and Oder in early historical times , in: J. Drauschke / R. Prien / S. Ristow (Ed.): Downfall and New Beginning. Conference contributions of the Working Group on Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages 3 and 4 (Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages 3), Hamburg 2011, pp. 241–261.
• The press model find from the port of Haithabu (excavations in Haithabu 12), Neumünster 2007 (= dissertation).
• Underwater archaeological prospecting and documentation of river crossings of the 7th-16th centuries Century - Insights into the underwater archeological training at the Kiel Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory , In: Starigard 8, 2007, pp. 72–77.
• Archeology in diving suits , in: Schleswig-Holstein Maritim, Spezial (exhibition catalog) Flensburg 2006, pp. 11–13.
• Brooches and pendants of the Terslev type and their cast imitations . In: Michael Müller-Wille (ed.): Between animal and cross. Studies on ornamentation from the Viking Age in the Baltic Sea area (studies on settlement history and archeology of the Baltic Sea areas 4), Neumünster 2004, 205–376 (= master's thesis).

Web links

Commons : Sunhild Kleingärtner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Webpage about Sunhild Kleingärtner at the University of Bremen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Review by Dariusz Adamczyk in the online portal sehepunkte , accessed on February 14, 2015.