Heiko Steuer (born 30 October 1939) is a German

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

, notable for his research into social and

economic history Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the Applied economics ...

in early Europe. He serves as co-editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online.

Career

Heiko Steuer was born on 30 October 1939, in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. From 1960 until 1969 he studied in

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

and

Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

, first studying mathematics and physics, and then prehistory and early history. In 1976 he was appointed director of the Kölnischen Stadtmuseums ( de), the

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

City Museum; he held the position until 1984. During this time, in 1979, Steuer habilitated himself, on studies of prehistory and early history at the Ruhr University Bochum. Steuer stepped down from the Cologne City Museum in 1984, the same year he became a full professor of prehistory and early history at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...

and also director of the Institute of Prehistory and Archeology of the Middle Ages. He retired from the university in 2005. During his career, Steuer researched early archaeology,

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

archaeology, German economic and social history, Germanic antiquity, mining archaeology, the history of medieval trade and currency, and the history of research of the field of prehistory and early history. He also edited the Journal of Archeology of the Middle Ages starting in 1972 (with

Sebastian Brather Sebastian Brather (born 28 June 1964) is a German medieval archaeologist and co-editor of '' Germanische Altertumskunde Online''. Career Brather received his PhD in archaeology from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1995 with a thesis '' Fe ...

( de) and Ulrich Müller), and the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde starting in 1994. Steuer is a member of the German Archaeological Institute, a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a member of the Commission for Historical Geography in Baden-Württemberg.

Publications

* * '' Waagen und Gewichte aus dem mittelalterlichen Schleswig. Funde des 11. bis 13. Jahrhunderts aus Europa als Quellen zur Handels- und Währungsgeschichte'', Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters, Beiheft 10 (Bonn: Rheinland-Verlag, 1997); .

References

Bibliography

* Sebastian Brather, Christel Hoeper, Michael Hoeper (eds.): ''Archäologie als Sozialgeschichte. Studien zu Siedlung, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im frühgeschichtlichen Mitteleuropa. Festschrift für Heiko Steuer zum 60. Geburtstag'' (= ''Internationale Archäologie. Studia honoraria.'' Bd. 9). Leidorf, Rahden/Westf. 1999, . * Sebastian Brather, Christoph Huth, Dieter Geuenich (eds.): ''Historia archaeologica. Festschrift für Heiko Steuer zum 70. Geburtstag'' (= ''Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsbände.'' Bd. 70). de Gruyter, Berlin u. a. 2009, . *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Steuer, Heiko 1939 births Archaeologists from Lower Saxony 20th-century German archaeologists 21st-century archaeologists Germanic studies scholars Living people People from Braunschweig