Thomas Schmidts

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Thomas Schmidts (* 1965 ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist . He is a specialist in ancient shipping .

Between 1988 and 1996 Thomas Schmidts studied Roman Provincial Archeology, Ancient History , Prehistory and Early History and Classical Archeology at the University of Munich and the University of Cologne . He graduated with a master's degree , the subject of the master's thesis was The Principia and a hall construction on the east wall of the Castra Regina / Regensburg legionary camp . In 1995 he started his doctoral studies in Munich and finished this in 1999 with the work The small finds from the Roman houses at the winery in Ladenburg with Günter Ulbert . Schmidts then became a research assistant at the Archaeological State Collection in Munich . Here he was in charge of the state exhibition The Romans between the Alps and the North Sea . In the same function, he moved to the central office in Konstanz of the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg in 2002 . Here he was in charge of the project management of the great state exhibition Imperium Romanum - Rome's provinces on the Neckar, Rhine and Danube .

Schmidts has been employed at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz since 2003 . Initially he was a research associate of the EU project Transformation - The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 AD , since 2006 of the research area Antike Schifffahrt of the museum as well as the Museum für Antike Schifffahrt . There he became a conservator in 2010 . Since 2006 he has also been teaching at the Universities of Cologne, Mainz , Frankfurt and Heidelberg University . In Heidelberg , Schmidts completed his habilitation in 2014 with the work Stamped Military Bricks Outside of the Troop Locations - Investigations into the Building Activity of the Army in the Provinces of the Roman Empire for Classical Archeology and Archeology of the Roman Provinces and received the Venia Legendi . Since then he has been teaching in Heidelberg as a private lecturer .

Schmidt's main research interests are in the areas of ancient shipping, the history and archeology of the Roman provinces , ancient economics, the Roman brick stamp and numismatics . As part of the main research at the Roman Central Museum in Mainz, Schmidts is researching the development of ancient port cities, the structures of maritime trade in the Roman Empire and, more generally, the structures and technology of ancient seafaring in the Mediterranean area . In addition, the Thracian port city of Ainos and its development as a transport hub in a changing environment are research topics. He has co-organized several scientific conferences at home and abroad on the subject of ancient shipping.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lopodunum IV. The small finds from the Roman houses at the winery in Ladenburg (excavations 1981–1985 and 1990) (= research and reports on the prehistory and early history of Baden-Württemberg , Volume 91), Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062- 1878-1 .
  • with Jürgen Hald and Dieter Müller: The Roman estate near Engen-Bargen (district of Konstanz) (= Roman-era land monuments , volume 4), Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-8062-2194-4 .
  • Actors and organization of merchant shipping in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire (= monographs of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Volume 97), Roman-Germanic Central Museum / Schnell & Steiner, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-88467-185-6 (museum) , ISBN 978-3-7954-2585-2 (publisher).
  • with Ronald Bockius and Juliane Kiefer: Seafaring in antiquity. Guide to the exhibition in the Museum of Ancient Shipping. Mainz 2013.
  • Editor with Felix Pirson and Sabine Ladstätter : Ports and port cities in the Eastern Mediterranean from ancient times to Byzantine times - new discoveries and current research approaches. Istanbul, May 30 - 1.6.2011 (= Byzaz Volume 19). Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2014, ISBN 978-605-4-70160-5 .
  • Stamped military bricks outside of the troop locations - investigations into the building activities of the army in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Heidelberg 2014 (habilitation thesis, in print preparation).
  • Editor with Martin Vučetić: Ports in the 1st Millennium AD - Structural concepts, stately and religious influences (= interdisciplinary research on ports from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages in Europe , Volume 11 = RGZM conferences , Volume 22) Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums , Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-88467-249-5 .
  • Editor with Heide Frielinghaus and Vasiliki Tsamakda : Ships and their context. Representations, models, components - from the Bronze Age to the end of the Byzantine Empire (= Byzantium between Orient and Occident Volume 5). Publisher of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-88467-277-8 .

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SURNAME Schmidts, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965