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Matthias Untermann (born 19 September 1956) is a German art historian and medieval archaeologist.
Matthias Untermann was born in Tübingen and is the son of the Indo-Germanist Jürgen Untermann. Matthias Untermann studied art history, classical archaeology and medieval history at the universities of Cologne and Zurich. In 1984, he was awarded a doctorate in medieval history under Günther Binding in Cologne. [1] He worked on numerous excavations and research projects in the Rhineland, in Baden-Württemberg and with the city archaeology in Lübeck during his studies.
In 1985, Untermann became a research assistant at the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg . There he worked at the Department of Medieval Archaeology and Building Research in Stuttgart and Freiburg im Breisgau, focusing on archaeology of the buildings of monastic communities as well as urban archaeology. In this context, he carried out several important excavations on urban archaeology in Freiburg. [2]
In 1998, Untermann conducted post-doctoral work in art history and medieval archaeology at the University of Freiburg under Wilhelm Schlink and Heiko Steuer. In the winter semester 1999/2000 he began teaching at the Institute for European Art History of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität.
Untermann edits the newsletter of the German Society for Medieval and Modern Archaeology (DGAMN).
His research interests include:[ citation needed ]