Hans-Georg Stephan

Hans -Georg Stephan (* May 30, 1950 in Dalhausen ) is a German medieval archaeologist and university professor.

Personal and Academic Career

In 1968, Hans -Georg Stephan on King Wilhelm Gymnasium ( KWG) in Hoexter the Abitur. From 1968 to 1975 he completed a study of the prehistory and early history, folklore and historical auxiliary sciences in Münster, Munich and Cardiff, from which he graduated with a doctorate. Subsequently he worked until 1977 as a research assistant at the University of Kiel and in the urban archeology of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. From 1977 to 2004 he worked as an Assistant Professor and an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen, where he habilitated in the winter semester 1991/92 and received the teaching license.

As at 30 December 2004, he was appointed Professor of the Archaeology of Medieval and Modern History at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg.

Hans -Georg Stephan is married and has two children.

Research priorities

  • Interdisciplinary archaeological research in the 1st and 2nd millenium mainly in Central Europe
  • Medieval settlement and landscape history ( settlement archeology )
  • City Topography and Architectural History
  • Material culture, especially pottery and glass of the Renaissance
  • Economic history, especially pottery, metallurgy and glass production
  • Archaeometry

Current and past projects (selection)

  • Stadtwüstung Corvey
  • Stadtwüstung Nienover
  • Wüstung Schmeessen
  • Wüstung Winnefeld
  • Castle and Abbey Goseck
  • Forest glassworks in the Uplands, such as forest glassworks in Reiherbachtal and forest glassworks at Lakeborn
  • Monastery Hethis

Publications (selection)

  • Archaeological contributions to the early history of the town of Hoexter. Münstersche contributions to the Pre-and Early History 7, 1973.
  • Archaeological studies on the deserted villages in the southern forested mountains. Münstersche contributions to the prehistory and early history 10-11, 1978-79.
  • Coppengrave - Studies on the pottery of the 13th -19. Century in north-western Germany. Material books for Pre-and Early History of Lower Saxony 17, 1981.
  • Großalmerode. A center for the production of technical ceramics, stoneware and earthenware in Hesse. The history of the ceramic industry in Großalmerode and the development of their production from 12 to 19th century. Part I, 1986.
  • The painted earthenware of the Renaissance in Central Europe. Broadcasts and compounds of the production centers in all of Europe. Forschungshefte the Bavarian National Museum in Munich 12, 1987.
  • The settlement history in space Fürstenhagen from the Stone Age to the Close of the Middle Ages, in: Klaus Kunze, Fürstenhagen in Bramwald, ISBN 978-3-933334-03-9, Uslar, 1989, p.9 -35
  • Tiles from the Werraland. The development of stove tiles from the 13th to the 17th century in the lower Werra room. The Werra Valley Association Witzenhausen 23, 1991 fonts.
  • Renaissance ceramics in the upper Weser region and the lower Werra. Contributions of archeology to the study of the material culture of the early modern period. Journal of Medieval Archaeology, Supplement 7, 1992.
  • Großalmerode. A European center for the production of technical ceramics. The history of the ceramic industry in Großalmerode and Epterode and the development of their production from the 12th to the 19th century. Part II: Technical and structural ceramics, clay pipes, Knicker, earthenware. Porcelain, aspects of trade, formerly chemical industry, mining and commercial history, 1995.
  • Studies on settlement development and structure of the city and monastery Corvey ( 800-1670 ). A synopsis on the basis of archaeological sources. Göttingen writings on the Prehistory and Early History 26, vol 1-3, 2000.
  • The Solling in the Middle Ages. Archeology, landscape, history in the Weser and Leine Bergland. Settlement and landscape development. The counts of Dassel and Nienover archaeotopos -Verlag, Dormagen, 2011 ISBN. 9,783,938,473,153th
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