Svend Hansen

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Svend Hansen (born March 6, 1962 in Darmstadt ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

life and work

Between 1980 and 1988 Svend Hansen studied prehistory, classical archeology , philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin (FUB). In 1988 he was awarded the Joachim Tiburtius Prize of the State of Berlin for his master’s thesis on metal dumping during the urn field period in the Rhine-Main area . The doctorate at the FU also had a similar topic in 1991 with studies on the metal dumping during the older urn fields between the Rhône Valley and the Carpathian Basin . In 1993, the dissertation was awarded the Eduard Anthes Prize . 1992–1993 Hansen received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 1994 Hansen became a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Heidelberg , and in 1995 research assistant at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory of Volker Pingel at the Ruhr University in Bochum (RUB). There he completed his habilitation in 2000 with the thesis investigations into the Neolithic and Copper Age figurative sculpture . The following year he became a university lecturer at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the RUB. In 2003 he became the first director of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Since 2004 he has also been an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 2011 to 2013 Hansen also headed the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt am Main. From 2009 to 2019 Hansen was involved in the Berlin Cluster of Excellence Topoi. Together with Rüdiger Krause , Hansen was the spokesman for the LOEWE focus “Prehistoric Conflict Research” from 2016 to 2019. In 2019 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for the project Technical and Social Innovations in the Caucasus: between the Eurasian Steppe and the Earliest Cities in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC . Hansen's long-term research excavation in Pietrele ( Măgura Gorgana ), Romania , was awarded the Shanghai Archeology Award in the " Field Discovery " category in 2019 .

From 1996 to 2001 Svend Hansen was the spokesman for the "Bronze Age Working Group" at the German Antiquities Associations , and in 2004 he was a member of the Interdisciplinary Old World Center at the Free University of Berlin. From 2016 to 2020 he was a member of the Expert Committee 101 “Ancient Cultures” of the German Research Foundation .

Hansen has been editor of the magazine “Das Altertum” since 1996. He is on the advisory board of the magazines Dacia (since 2006), Revista Arheologica (since 2007), Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica (since 2009), Talanta. Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society (since 2009), Stratum plus (since 2010), Archeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia - Archeologija, Etnografia i Antropologija Evrasii (since 2014), Archaeologia Austriaca (since 2014), Vestnik novosibirskogo gosudarstvennogo Universiteta . Seria: Istoria, Filologija (since 2015), Glasnik zemaljskog muzeja Bosne i Hercegovine u Sarajevu (since 2017), ARCHEO (since 2019), Journal of Archaeological Research (since 2019). Hansen has been a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Saxon State Museum for Archeology since 2007 .

Hansen has been a full member of the DAI since 2003; in 2014 he was in Tbilisi , the honorary doctorate of the Sokhumi State University awarded. In 2016 he was awarded honorary membership of the Archaeological Institute in Iași . He has also been an honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 2016 .

Hansen researches in particular the Neolithic and the Bronze Age . He carried out excavations in Aruchlo in Georgia , Pietrele ( Măgura Gorgana ) in Romania and Ergeninsky in Russia . He researched the Neolithic statuettes of Aşağı Pınar in Turkey and Bronze Age depot finds .

Fonts

  • Studies on the metal dumping during the Urnfield period in the Rhine-Main area (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Vol. 5). Habelt, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-7749-2438-4 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1988).
  • with Hermann Born : Early Greek bronze helmets (= Axel Guttmann Collection. Vol. 3). Verlag Collection Guttmann bei von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1665-8 .
  • Studies on the metal dumping during the older Urnfield Period between the Rhône Valley and the Carpathian Basin (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Vol. 21). 2 volumes. Habelt, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7749-2658-1 .
  • with Jan Blažek: The hoard finds from Saběnice in north-west Bohemia (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of north-west Bohemia. Vol. 4 = North Bohemian bronze finds. Vol. 3). Ústav Archeologické Památkové Péče Severozápadních Čech, Most 1997, ISBN 80-901828-1-X .
  • with Hermann Born: Helmets and Weapons of Old Europe. (= Axel Guttmann Collection. Vol. 9). Verlag Sammlung Guttmann bei von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-1671-2 .
  • as editor with Volker Pingel : Archeology in Hessen. New finds and findings. Festschrift for Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= International Archeology. Studia honoraria. Vol. 13). Leidorf, Rahden 2001 ISBN 3-89646-393-4 .
  • Images of man from the Stone Age. Investigations on the anthropomorphic sculpture of the Neolithic and Copper Age in Southeast Europe (= Archeology in Eurasia. Vol. 20). 2 volumes. von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3773-1 (Also: Bochum, University, habilitation paper, 2000).
  • as editor with Alfried Wieczorek , Michael Tellenbach : Alexander the Great and the opening of the world. Asia's cultures in transition (= publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn museums. Vol. 36). Schnell & Steiner et al., Regensburg et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2177-9 .
  • Archaeological finds from Germany. Booklet accompanying the photo exhibition. German Archaeological Institute Eurasia Department, Berlin 2010.
  • as editor: From Majkop to Trialeti. Extraction and distribution of metals and obsidian in the Caucasus in the 4th – 2nd centuries. Jt. V. BC (= colloquia on prehistory and early history. Vol. 13). Contributions to the International Symposium in Berlin. Habelt, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7749-3695-9 .
  • as editor: Life on Tell as a social practice (= colloquia on prehistory and early history. Vol. 14). Contributions to the International Symposium in Berlin from 26. – 27. February 2007, Habelt, Bonn 2010 ISBN 978-3-7749-3710-9 .
  • as editor with Daniel Neumann and Tilmann Vachta: Hort und Raum. Current research on Bronze Age landfills in Central Europe (= Topoi. Vol. 10). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029020-2 .
  • as editor with Raphael Gross , Michael Lenarz and Patricia Rahemipour: In the light of the menorah. Jewish life in the Roman province. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50285-4 .
  • as editor with Johannes Müller: Rebellion and Inequality in Archeology. Proceedings of the Kiel Workshops "Archeology of Rebellion" (2014) and "Social Inequality as a Topic in Archeology" (2015) , Bonn 2017.
  • as editor with Liane Giemsch: Gold und Wein. Georgia's oldest treasures. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition October 6, 2018 - February 10, 2019 Archaeological Museum Frankfurt , Mainz 2018.
  • as editor with Rüdiger Krause: Bronze age fortresses in Europe: proceedings of the Second International LOEWE Conference, 9-13 October 2017 in Alba Iulia , Bonn 2019
  • as editor with VI Molodin and LN Mylnikova: Mobility and Migration: Concepts, Methods, Results. Materials of the V International Symposium “Mobility and Migration: Concepts, Methods, Results” (Denisova Cave (Altai, Russia), August 19-24, 2019). Мобильность и миграция: концепции, методы, результаты. Материалы V Международного симпозиума "Мобильность и миграция: концепции, методы, результаты» (Денисова пещера (Алтай, Россия) 19-24 августа 2019 г.) , Novosibirsk of 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Hansen's areas of activity ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dainst.de (accessed June 18, 2012) . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dainst.org
  2. ↑ List of honorary professors at the FU ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Freie Universität Berlin (accessed June 18, 2012) . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de
  3. ↑ Prehistoric Conflict Research - Castles of the Bronze Age , proloewe.de (accessed on May 17, 2016) .
  4. ↑ Advanced Grant of the European Research Council , erc.europa.eu (accessed on September 9, 2019) .
  5. ↑ Double award-winning: Two DAI projects received the Shanghai Archeology Award 2019. German Archaeological Institute, November 13, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ DFG committees , dfg.de (accessed on September 9, 2019) .
  7. ^ Svend Hansen - Honorary Doctor of Sokhumi State University , on the Sokhumi State University website (accessed December 6, 2014) .
  8. ↑ No end in sight , Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania (accessed June 16, 2016) .
  9. ↑ Membri de onoare din străinătate , academiaromana.ro (accessed on July 11, 2016) .
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Svend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt