Wolfram Weiser

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Wolfram Weiser (born May 5, 1954 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German numismatist .

biography

After high school and military service, he began studying history, economics, Latin and Greek at the University of Cologne . After the state examination, he received his doctorate in 1982 with a dissertation on Bithynian imperial bronze coins Nikaia ( İznik ). The first focus of work remained the ancient influences on Asia Minor. In 1997 he was appointed honorary professor for ancient history with special emphasis on numismatics at the University of Cologne. He works as a freelance numismatist.

Publications: monographs

  • Catalog of the Alexandrian imperial coins from the collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne (= treatises of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, special series Papyrologia Coloniensa V):
    • (with Angelo Geissen ) Volume 4: Claudius Gothicus - lead coins . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983.
    • Volume 5: Indices for volumes 1–4 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983.
  • Catalog of the Bithynian coins from the collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne (= treatises of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, special series Papyrologia Coloniensa IX):
    • Volume 1: Nikaia - with an examination of the embossing systems and counterstamps . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1983.
  • Catalog of Ptolemaic bronze coins from the collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne (= treatises of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, special series Papyrologia Coloniensa XXIII). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995.
  • Academic Art Museum Bonn: Coin inventory (unprinted).
    • 1: Greek coins and Greek coins from the Roman Empire from Italy to Egypt, No. 1–216, Bonn 2009.
    • 2: Imperial coins of the Roman Empire from Maximinus I Thrax to Tetricus, No. 217–473, Bonn 2009.
    • 3: Modern copies of ancient coins and medallions and invented pieces, Bonn 2010.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Weiser at the University of Cologne.