Eric Breuer
Eric Breuer is a Swiss archaeologist and historian.
He studied archaeology and history at the Universities of
Childhood and youth
Only scarce information can be found about his childhood and youth. It seems, that he spent his early years at Munich and the Lake Constance region. Already from early ages he was interested in archaeology. At the age of 8 he discovered an ancient building at the Roman settlement of Argen by unearthening potsherds of samian ware.[3] At the age of 13 he joined the local museum.[4]
Life as an archaeologist
Already before his university studies, he was surprised about the total lack of Roman towns north of lake constance, dure to the massive density in southern region with ancient towns like
As a result he managed to discover an (in modern times totally unknown) Roman vicus at river Schussen near today's village of Eriskirch,[7] where buildings with preserved ancient wood were excavated by him.[8]
In 2001 Breuer discovered a slightly separated part of the settlement with pottery kilns, already lying on the eastern side of river Schussen at Mariabrunn, more than half a mile eastern the first discovered pottery area.[9] In 2012 he managed even to localize the Roman necropolis of the first century AD of the ancient village.
Studying
On the field of Early Medieval archaeology, Breuer published a new chronological system, based on earlier works of F. Daim and J. Zabojnik.
Contrary to early eastern European archaeologists, like I. Kovrig and others, Breuer favoured the idea that changes in ornaments and manufacturing of belts are not signs of new arriving ethnic groups in the
References
- ^ Breuer, E. Byzanz an der Donau, 2005, page 5.
- ^ Meyer, M. Ein römerzeitliches Gräberfeld bei Mochenwangen. Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 27, 2003, Reference 11.
- ^ Meyer, M.G.M. Die laendliche Besiedlung von Oberschwaben zur Roemerzeit. Materialhefte zur Archaeologie in Baden-Württemberg 85. (Stuttgart 2010) page 299-300.
- ^ Breuer, E., Roemer am noerdlichen bodensee (Tettnang 2001), page 5.
- ^ Breuer, E., Römer am nördlichen Bodensee (Tettnang 2001), page 16-17
- ^ Meyer, M.G.M. Die laendliche Besiedlung von Oberschwaben zur Roemerzeit. Materialhefte zur Archaeologie in Baden-Württemberg 85. (Stuttgart 2010) page 160-172, 281.
- ISBN 3-8062-1555-3. page 80.
- ^ Bilamboz, A. Der Stand der Dendrochronologie für die Römerzeit in Baden-Württemberg. Festschr. Planck. Stuttgart 2009 page 669, 675.
- ISBN 3-88812-208-2.
- ISBN 3-7965-2148-7
- ISBN 3-7965-2148-7
- ^ Bürgi, J. and Hoppe R., Schleitheim-Iuliomagus. Die römischen Thermen. Antiqua 13. (Basel 1985)
- ^ Meyer, M.G.M. Die laendliche Besiedlung von Oberschwaben zur Roemerzeit. Materialhefte zur Archaeologie in Baden-Württemberg 85. (Stuttgart 2010) page 160-172, 281-282, 299-300.
- ^ Ungerman, Šimon., Breuer, E: Byzanz an der Donau. Archeologické rozhledy, 2006, 58, 368-374.
- ISBN 978-3980762854
- ^ Eric Breuer, Byzanz an der Donau, 2005, page 30, 118-121.
- ^ Eric Breuer, Byzanz an der Donau, 2005, page 6-9.
Sources
- Planck, D. (2005). Die Römer in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8062-1555-3. page 80.
- Meyer, M. Ein römerzeitliches Gräberfeld bei Mochenwangen. Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 27, 2003, Reference 11.
- Bilamboz, A. Der Stand der Dendrochronologie für die Römerzeit in Baden-Württemberg. Festschr. Planck. Stuttgart 2009 page 669, 675.
- Fiedler U., [Rez. zu], Breuer, Eric: Byzanz an der Donau :eine Einführung in Chronologie und Fundmaterial zur Archäologie im Frühmittelalter im mittleren Donau-Raum. Eurasia antiqua 19, 2013,175-178.
- Pleterski A., Eric Breuer, Byzanz an der Donau. Arheoloski Vestnik 58, 2007, 464.
- Migotti B., Eric Breuer, Byzanz an der Donau, Vjesnik Arheoloskog muzeja u Zagrebu XXXIX, 2006, 3, 260-262.
- Ungerman, Šimon., Breuer, E: Byzanz an der Donau. Archeologické rozhledy, 2006, 58, 368-374.
- Meyer, M.G.M. Die laendliche Besiedlung von Oberschwaben zur Roemerzeit. Materialhefte zur Archaeologie in Baden-Württemberg 85. (Stuttgart 2010) page 160-172, 281-282, 299-300.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110531194925/http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php/Aquincum
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110531195003/http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php/Keszthely_(Kultur)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110531195009/http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php/Pannonien_(Provinz)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110531195014/http://eeo.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php/Pannonii