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Matthias Untermann (born 19 September 1956) is a German art historian and medieval archaeologist.
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Matthias Untermann (born 19 September 1956) is a German art historian and medieval archaeologist.
Born in Tübingen, Untermann, son of the Indo-Germanist Jürgen 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 with the dissertation "Kirchenbauten der Premonstratensian. Untersuchungen zum Problem einer Ordensbaukunst im 12. Jahrhundert". [1]
After Untermann had already worked on numerous excavations and research projects in the Rhineland, in Baden-Württemberg and with the city archaeology in Lübeck during his studies, he became a research assistant at the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg in 1985. 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 habilitated in art history and medieval archaeology at the University of Freiburg under Wilhelm Schlink and Heiko Steuer with the habilitation thesis "Forma Ordinis - Studien zur Baukunst der Zisterzienser im Mittelalter".
In the winter semester 1999/2000 he took over the C3 professorship for European Art History, Old Department, at the Institute for European Art History of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität.
Untermann is involved with the German Society for Medieval and Modern Archaeology (DGAMN) and edits its newsletter, which has become an important professional journal through his work.
His research interests include:
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