Ursula Koch (archaeologist)

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Ursula Koch (born September 20, 1938 in Küstrin ) is a German prehistoric scientist and former curator of the “Early History” research center at the Curt Engelhorn Center in Mannheim .

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Ursula Koch studied Prehistory and Protohistory, Classical Archeology and Egyptology at the universities in Hamburg , Munich and Marburg . In 1965 she received her doctorate from Joachim Werner in Munich with a thesis on the grave finds of the Merovingian period from the Danube valley around Regensburg . In the following years, Koch devoted himself to the research of six Franconian and Alemannic- Franconian burial fields in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg , funded by the German Research Foundation .

Museum of World Cultures D5 in Mannheim

The end of 1995 it was to prepare the large exhibition The Franks - Pioneer Europe employee of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim. She developed the concept for the exhibition “Gold of the Barbarian Princes”, which was shown in Mannheim and Paris . Since January 2004, Ursula Koch has been the scientific curator of the "Early History" research center at the Curt Engelhorn Center. The focus of the research work is on the archaeological finds from the Rhine-Neckar region and the northern Upper Rhine region, based on the extremely rich holdings of the archaeological collections of the Reiss-Engelhorn museums. The culmination of her life's work can be seen in the “Museum Weltkulturen D5” as the “Merovingian Period (480–751 AD)” section, which she set up and which has been open since 2015.

In 1986 Koch became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 1990 she was awarded the honorary prize by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . She then took on several teaching positions at the universities of Bayreuth , Bamberg and Vienna .

Koch is married to the archaeologist Robert Koch , their daughter, Julia Katharina Koch, is also an archaeologist and worked at the University of Leipzig .

Fonts

  • The grave finds of the Merovingian period from the Danube valley around Regensburg (= Germanic monuments of the migration period. Series A, Volume 10). de Gruyter, Berlin 1968.
  • The row grave field near Schretzheim . Mann, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-7861-1073-5 .
  • The Franconian grave fields of Bargen and Berghausen in North Baden (= research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 12). Theiss, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0762-3 .
  • The Alemannic-Franconian grave field near Pleidelsheim (= research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 60). Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1520-0 .

A complete list of publications can be found in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter Volume 16 (2008), p. 182.

There is also a directory at Regesta Imperii Opac: Publications by Ursula Koch accessed on March 25, 2018

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum of World Cultures in Mannheim - Middle Ages In: rem-mannheim.de , accessed on March 25, 2018