Volker beer brewer

Volker Bierbrauer (born September 19, 1940 in Kirn ) is a German prehistorian and medieval archaeologist .

In 1969 he received his doctorate in prehistory and early history in Munich, and his habilitation with Joachim Werner followed in 1977. In 1979 he was appointed to the University of Bonn . From 1990 to 2006 he held the chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Her successor was Carola Metzner-Nebelsick in 2007 .

His research areas include the history of Goths and Lombards , settlement archeology in the Alpine region and northern Italy, the early Christian bishopric in Säben or Invillino -Ibligo in Friuli (near Tolmezzo ) and questions of continuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages. The time frame of his work extends from the 2nd century BC. BC to the 9th century AD He developed and interpreted important archaeological sources in the Alpine region.

Since 2005, Bierbrauer has been a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , where he is a member of the commission on the comparative archeology of Roman Alpine and Danube countries. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Research Program Transformation of the Roman World of the European Science Foundation and is chairman of the international evaluation committee of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. He is also a member of the Accademia degli Agiati in Rovereto and the Commission for Research into Collections of Archaeological Finds and Documents from Northeast Central Europe .

Fonts (selection)

• with Hans Nothdurfter: The excavations in the late antique-early medieval bishopric Sabiona-Säben in South Tyrol I. Early Christian church and grave field (= Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. 58). 3 volumes. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-10762-7 .
• Ethnos and mobility in the 5th century from an archaeological point of view. From the Caucasus to Lower Austria (= treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. New series, issue 131). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-0973-8 .
• Archeology of the Lombards in Italy. Ethnic interpretation and state of research. In: Walter Pohl , Peter Erhart (Hrsg.): Die Langobard. Rule and identity (= research on the history of the Middle Ages. 9 = Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Memoranda. 329). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3400-2 , pp. 21–65.
• Archeology and history of the Goths from 1st to 7th centuries Century. In: Early Medieval Studies . Volume 28, 1994, pp. 51-171, ( PDF; 20.4 MB ).
• Lombards, Bavarians and Romans in the central Alpine region in the 6th and 7th centuries. Settlement archeological studies on two stratification processes in a border region and on the consequences for Alpine romance. In: Wolfgang Haubrichs , Reinhard Schneider (Ed.): Borders and border regions. = Frontières et régions frontalières (= publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research. 22). Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken 1993 (published 1994), ISBN 3-925036-83-0 , pp. 147-178.
• Early historical acculturation processes in the Germanic states on the Mediterranean (Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards) from the point of view of the archaeologist. In: Atti del 6 ° congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo. Milano, 21-25 October 1978. Volume 1. Presso la Sede del Centro di Studi, Spoleto 1980, pp. 89-105.
• The East Gothic grave and treasure finds in Italy (= Biblioteca degli studi medievali. 7, ISSN  0523-3437 ). Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, Spoleto 1975, (revised version by: Munich, University, dissertation, 1969).

literature

• Bernd Päffgen, Ernst Pohl, Michael Schmauder (eds.): Cum grano salis. Contributions to European prehistory and early history. Festschrift for Volker beer brewers on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Likias, Friedberg 2005, ISBN 3-9807628-5-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Bierbrauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Writings by Volker Bierbrauer in the OPAC of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
• Writings by Volker Bierbrauer in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii
• Publications by Prof. Dr. Volker beer brewer. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , accessed on January 26, 2016 . 
• Page at the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , accessed on January 26, 2016 . 
• Press release about the election to the academy
• Prof. Dr. Volker Bierbrauer , full members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences