Thomas Meier (archaeologist)

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Thomas Meier (* 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German archaeologist in the field of medieval archeology and archaeological theory .

Life

After leaving school, Thomas Meier made from 1986 to 1988 civil service at the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich . He completed the subsequent studies of Prehistory and Early History with Max Martin , Provincial Roman Archeology with Günter Ulbert and Medieval History with Friedrich Prinz and Stefan Weinfurter at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1995 at the Faculty of Classical and Cultural Studies there Master's thesis on archaeological aspects of German royal tombs of the high Middle Ages . In February 1999, at the same location, he did his doctorate with a thesis on The Royal Grave in Speyer Cathedral and the archeology of the medieval royal grave in Christian Europe ; the doctorate was funded by a grant from the German National Academic Foundation .

From 1997 to 2004 Thomas Meier was head of the research and teaching excavation on the Petersberg near Flintsbach am Inn at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Munich , which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Since 1998 he has been teaching on topics of medieval archeology, environmental and settlement archeology as well as archaeological theory at the universities of Kiel , Heidelberg and Munich. In 2001/02 he was a member of the ad hoc working group to prepare an inventory of historical cultural landscape elements in Bavaria at the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Laufen.

In April 2008 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with a thesis on social structure and economic methods in early medieval southern Bavaria. The example of the Kelheim-Kanal I and Unterigling-Loibachanger settlements . In the summer semester of 2008, Thomas Meier took over the chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena until he was offered a professorship at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg , where he has been a professor for Prehistory and Protohistory since October 2008 clothed.

From March 1, 2010 to February 28, 2011, Meier was a Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The archeology of the medieval royal grave in Christian Europe (= Medieval research. Vol. 8) Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-4259-0 .

Editorships

  • Michael R. Ott , Rebecca Sauer , Thomas Meier (editors): Materiale Textkulturen. Concepts - Materials - Practices. de Gruyter, Berlin-Boston-Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037128-4 . ( OpenAccess ) (= MTK 1)
  • Landscape ideologies (= Archaeolingua Series Minor. Vol. 22). Archaeolingua Alapítvány, Budapest 2006, ISBN 963-8046-71-6 .
  • (with Karl Schmotz) Anna Sybille Hannibal-Deraniyagala, Doris Gutsmiedl: The Bavarian burial ground of Künzing-Bruck, district of Deggendorf ( Bonn contributions to prehistoric archeology. Vol. 8). Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-936490-08-4 .

Reviews of his writings

  • Maria Glaser: Review by Thomas Meier: The archeology of the medieval royal tomb in Christian Europe. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, in: sehepunkte 3 (2003), No. 4, April 15, 2003 online
  • Bernd Thier: Review by Thomas Meier: The archeology of the medieval royal tomb in Christian Europe. Thorbecke, Stuttgart 2002, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, October 15, 2002 online
    • Thomas Meier: Reaction to Bernd Thier's review, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Research at Petersberg on the prehistoric and early historical archeology site at the LMU
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Meiers on the pages of the Marsilius College of Heidelberg University
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main