Ulrich Werz

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Ulrich Werz (born January 15, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German classical scholar and numismatist .

Life

Werz studied classical archeology and ancient history as well as prehistory and early history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After the intermediate examination, he moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main ; as a minor he studied Near Eastern Archeology . In the seminar for Classical Archeology at the University of Frankfurt, he obtained his Magister Artium from Hans von Steuben on the subject of depictions of Aphrodite on Asian Minor coins from the Roman Empire . After supplementary studies and a final examination in the subject of auxiliary sciences in antiquity: epigraphy, papyrology, numismatics , he did his doctorate at the Seminar for Ancient History in Frankfurt am Main (now the Institute for Archaeological Sciences) on counterstamps on stamps from the early Roman Empire in the Rhine area . From 2002 to 2014 Werz was a research associate at the Münzkabinett in Winterthur . He also worked as a found coin processor, among others for the canton archeology of Zurich and St. Gallen .

For a longer period of time, Ulrich Werz promoted young talent through lectures at the Münzkabinett of the city of Winterthur and at the ancient history seminars of the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Osnabrück . From March 2010 to March 2014, Werz was on the board of the Swiss Working Group for Fund Coins (SAF), which he headed from 2011 to 2014.

For health reasons, Ulrich Werz ended his activities in Switzerland in 2014 and continued to work in research and teaching. From 2015 he worked on the coin finds of the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland . He has lived in Hanover since 2016 and has been responsible for the processing of found coins at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation since 2019 .

Publications (selection)

  • Counterstamp on stamps from the early Roman Empire in the Rhine area - basics, systematics, typology , Frankfurt Main, 2001, dissertation
  • Greek Coins - Greek World. Treasures from the Münzkabinett of the City of Winterthur , Innsbruck, 2003
  • Counterstamp on imperial and provincial coins from the Roman Empire . Catalog of the Dr. Konrad Bech, in: Series of the Numismatic Society Speyer , Vol. 45, Speyer, 2004
  • Counterstamp on stamps from the early Roman imperial era in the Rhine area - basics, systematics, typology , Winterthur, 2009, ( online )
  • The counterstamps on the coins from Hedemünden in: Römerlager Hedemünden: The Augustan base, its outdoor facilities, its finds and findings . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2012, pp. 223–229.
  • For dating the Roman camp near Hedemünden, district of Göttingen, through counterstamped found coins . In: Michael Cell (Ed.): Terra incognita? The northern low mountain range in the field of tension between Roman and Germanic politics around the birth of Christ . Files from the colloquium in the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold from June 17 to 19, 2004. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3632-1 , pp. 187–190.
  • The supply of small change from the Augustan period in Gaul and Germania - considerations on the small coins from the Roman marching camp of Wilkenburg in: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 87, 2018, pp. 167-182. ( Online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : Ulrich Werz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ulrich Werz ... is the new President of the Swiss Working Group for Fund Coins SAF. in: Nike. Bulletin 6/2011 of the National Information Center on Cultural Heritage