Sigmund Oehrl

 ( 1979 Births ) 

Benjamin Sigmund Oehrl (born 21 November 1979) is a German archaeologist and philologist who specializes in Germanic studies.

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Biography Sigmund Oehrl was born in Kassel, Germany on 21 November 1979. He studied prehistory, protohistory, and German philology and Nordic philology at the University of Göttingen, gaining his master's degree with distinction in 2004. Oehrl subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Seminar for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Göttingen, and was in 2006 awarded a doctoral scholarship by the . He received his Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Göttingen in 2008 with a thesis on in Sweden.

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From 2009 to 2014, Oehrl was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and a researcher on runic at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He transferred to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2014, where he gained his habilitation on Old Norse philology and prehistoric archaeology in 2016. He has subsequently been a researcher and lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Stockholm University.

Oehrl researches a variety of subjects related to Germanic Antiquity, including Germanic religion, Germanic art, runology and . He is particularly known for his research on the of Gotland. He is a co-editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online.

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See also

• Rudolf Simek
• Wilhelm Heizmann
• Robert Nedoma
• Klaus Düwel
• Arnulf Krause

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Selected works

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Sources

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External links

• Sigmund Oehlr at ResearchGate
• Sigmund Oehlr at Academia.edu

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