Tilmann Bechert

Tilmann Bechert (born January 24, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German provincial Roman archaeologist and historian.

Tilmann Bechert studied history and archeology of the Roman provinces at the University of Heidelberg . In 1968 Bechert was appointed to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Frankfurt a. M. to Dr. phil. PhD. His excavations and investigations in Moers- Asberg / Asciburgium , which he carried out from the late 1960s to the early 1980s as an employee of the Lower Rhine Museum of the City of Duisburg , were trend-setting . In particular, he succeeded in finding traces of a military camp from the early days of the Roman occupation. From 1994 to 2003 he headed the Duisburg city ​​archeology. He founded the series of publications "Finds from Asciburgium", which the city of Duisburg is now continuing to publish.

Fonts (selection)

• Roman fibulae of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Duisburg & Rheinhausen 1973, (Finds from Asciburgium, 1)
• Asciburgium - excavations in a Roman fort on the Lower Rhine. Braun, Duisburg 1974, (Duisburger Forschungen, Vol. 20), ISBN 3-87096-032-9
• Stone monuments and vessel inscriptions. Duisburg 1976, (Finds from Asciburgium, 4)
• On the terminology of Roman provincial cremation graves. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt , 10/1980, Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums , Mainz 1980, ISSN  0342-734X , p. 253ff.
• Roman Germania between the Rhine and the Meuse: Between the Rhine and the Meuse. Hirmer, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7774-3440-X
• with Michel Vanderhoeven: Pottery temple from southern Gaul. Niederrheinisches Museum, Duisburg 1988, (Finds from Asciburgium, 9)
• The Romans at Asciburgium. Braun, Duisburg 1989, (Duisburger Forschungen, Vol. 36), ISBN 3-87096-047-7
• with Gernot Tromnau: Duisburg and the Lower Rhine between Krefeld, Essen, Bottrop and Xanten. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0847-6
• Two thousand years of the Asciburgium. The history of the Roman forts on the "Burgfeld" in Moers-Asberg. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1992, ISBN 3-88265-179-2
• with Willem JH Willems : The Roman border from the Moselle to the North Sea coast. Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1189-2
• The Provinces of the Roman Empire: Introduction and Overview. Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2399-9
• Asciburgium and Dispargum. The Ruhr estuary between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . In: Thomas Grünewald and Sandra Seibel (eds.): Continuity and Discontinuity. Germania inferior at the beginning and at the end of Roman rule . (Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, supplementary volume 35). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017688-2 , pp. 1–11
• Roman archeology in Germany: history, monuments, museums . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010516-1
• Germania Inferior. A province on the northern border of the Roman Empire . Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-8053-2400-6
• Asciburgium Fort. Excavations in Moers-Asberg 1965–2011. Part I: Introduction, Methodology, History . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Duisburg 2012, ISBN 3-933474-77-9 , (Finds from Asciburgium, 16)

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilmann Bechert in the catalog of the German National Library