Prof. Dr. Manfred Rösch - Vita

Born January 5, 1952 in Mühlacker

Academic Qualifications

• 2005 Extraordinary professor, department of Philosophy, Universität Heidelberg
• 2003 Habilitation, Universität Heidelberg, Ur- und Frühgeschichte/Archäobotanik
• 1993 Habilitation, Innsbruck University (Austria): Botanische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft am Bodensee (Botanical investigation of the history of the cultural landscape at Lake Constance); venia legendi for Botanik/Archaeobotanik
• 1982 Doctor phil. nat., Universität Bern (Switzerland): Geschichte der Nussbaumer Seen/Kanton Thurgau und ihrer Umgebung seit dem Ausgang der letzten Eiszeit aufgrund quartärbotanischer, stratigraphischer und sedimentologischer Untersuchungen (History of the Lakes of Nussbaumen/Kanton Thurgau and their surroundings since the last Ice Age using quaternary-botanical, stratigraphical and sedimentological methods)
• 1979 Diplom in Biologie, Universität Hohenheim; Topic of the Diploma thesis: Postglaziale Geschichte und ökologische Bedingungen des Eibenwaldes von Paterzell/Oberbayern (Holocene history and ecology of the Yew Forest of Paterzell, upper Bavaria).

Professional Experience

• Since 1987 Consultant for Archaeobotany and Director, Laboratory for Archaeobotany, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg
• 1983-1987 Research Associate, Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Freiburg University
  1. DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm: Siedlungsarchäologie im Alpenvorland“
  2. Foundation of the Laboratory for Archaeobotany in Hemmenhofen (Lake Constance)
• 1982-1983 Visiting Scientist, Botanisches Institut, Universität Hohenheim

Honours

• Organizer of meetings of the Arbeitsgruppe Archäobotanik and the Arbeitskreis Vegetationsgeschichte of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft and co-organizer of the 15th conference of the International Work Group of Palaeoethnobotany

Research Grants

• An experimental approach to Neolithic shifting cultivation.
  Running since 1994;
  applicants: Wolfram Schier, Arno Bodenrieder, Manfred Rösch, Erhard Schulzi
  initiated by M. Rösch
  funding by StollVITA foundation (1994-1997)
  Würth foundation (1998.-1999), DFG (since 2003).
• House and Environment; land use and landscape history in Southwest Germany.
  a bundle of three applications
  applicants: S. Lorenz/P.Rückert, B. Scholkmann (Tübingen University), Manfred Rösch (Landesdenkmalamt) initiated by M. Rösch;
  funding by the DFG from 2001-2004.
• Pollen analytical and archaeobotanical investigations of Neolithic and Bronze Age land use at Lake Constance.
  applicants: D.Planck/M. Rösch, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
  funding by the DFG since 2005.
• Iron Age Vegetation History in Central Europe.
  Part of the DFG-research focus program 1171, “Early centralisation and urbanisation processes in Central Europe”
  applicants: M. Rösch/J. Biel, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
  funding by the DFG from 2004 to 2010.
• Vegetation-historical research in prehistoric land use in the northern Black Forest.
  applicant: M. Rösch
  funding by the DFG since 2006.

Ongoing applications:

• Diachronous synopsis of Neolithic settlement pattern of Western Lake Constance and Hegau region (south-west Germany)
  Application to the DFG
  applicants: M.Rösch/J. Bofinger, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege.
• Human impact and acidification of forest soils during the last Millennia in the Northern Black Forest.
  Application to the DFG in preparation
  applicants: K. Feger, TU Dresden/M. Rösch, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege.
• Land use, economics and environmental pollution during the last two Millenia as documented in annually laminated lake sediments and written sources at Bad Waldsee, South-West Germany
  Application to the DFG in preparation
  applicants: /M. Rösch, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, K. Feger, TU Dresden, S. Lorenz/P. Rückert, Univ. Tübingen.