Prof. Dr. Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska

Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska was born in Budapest. She studied archaeology, classical archaeology and medieval history at the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Vienna. From 2000 to 2003, she was a doctoral fellowship holder – »Europa-Fellow«– at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and obtained her PhD from the Faculty of Humanities of the European University Viadrina with a doctoral thesis with the title »Die Einlagetechniken der Früh- und Mittelawarenzeit: Ornamentale und technologische Studien zur Stein- und Glasinkrustation sowie zur Tauschierung« [The Inlay Techniques of the Early and Middle Avar Period: Ornamental and Technological Studies of Stone and Glass Cell Works and Damascene]  in 2004. From 1999 to 2000, she completed the postgraduate programme »Protection of European Cultural Heritage« at the Collegium Polonicum. From 2001 to 2006 she held teaching assignments in Archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin,the University of Bremen and the Collegium Polonicum. In the winter term 2011/2012, she was Interim Professor of Archaeology at the University of Saarland in Saarbrucken. From 2012 to 2014, she was Feodor Lynen Senior Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Zagreb and Belgrade (12 months in total). In 2017, she was awarded the Venia Legendi for Archaeology from the Free University of Berlin. Since 2023, she has been Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lille.

Since 2006, Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska has been a researcher and since 2019 a senior researcher at the GWZO.

• Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

• Migration and transformation

• Elite representation

• Landscape archaeology

• Use of metals and resources

• Biography of objects

• Member of the board of the Working Committee for Historical Cultural Landscape Research in Central Europe [Arbeitskreis für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa e.V. (ARKUM)] (since 2018)

• Member of the board of the Network of Archaeological and Historical Metalworking [Netzwerk Historisches Feinschmiedehandwerk (NAHM)] (since 2011)

• Member of the board of the Working Group »Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages« (until 2022)

• Editorial board member of the journal Přehled výzkumů (since 2020)

• Core group member of the International Research Network HAEMUS (Archaeology and History of the Balkans in Late Antiquity (3rd-8th Centuries AD)) (since 2021) 

• Core group member of the International Scientific Network (»Late Antique Hilltop Settlements in Europe (LAHIS)«) (since 2020)

• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 2018)

• External member of the Common Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2015)

• Co-editor of the book series »Forschungen zu Spätantike und Mittelalter« (Bärenfelser & BAG Verlag)

• Co-editor of the book series »Studien zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter« (Verlag Dr. Kovač)

• Co-editor of the book series »Rome and After in Central and Eastern Europe« (Brepohl)

Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska’s main topics of teaching are the archaeology of the first millennium (graves and settlements), archaeometry and cultural heritage. From 2001to 2017, she held teaching assignments at the Humboldt University ofBerlin, the European University Viadrina and the University of Leipzig. In the winter term 2011/2012, she was Interim Professor of Archaeology at the University of Saarland in Saarbrucken. Since 2017, she has been Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Free University of Berlin.

She has contributed expertise to numerous exhibitions through which research results have been and are being presented to a broader public in a vivid way.