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

Germanic studies Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary te ...

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Sigmund Oehrl was born in Kassel, Germany on 21 November 1979. He studied prehistory, protohistory, and

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and

Nordic philology Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies, mainly in the United States and Germany, that primarily focuses on the Scandinavian languages (also known as North Germanic languages) and cultural studies pertaining to ...

at the

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, gaining his

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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

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summa cum laude from the University of Göttingen in 2008 with a thesis on

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s in Sweden. From 2009 to 2014, Oehrl was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and a researcher on

runic Runes are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised ...

at the

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Göttingen Academy of Sciences (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)Note that the German ''Wissenschaft'' has a wider meaning than the English "Science", and includes Social sciences and Humanities. is the second oldest of the se ...

. 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,

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runology Runology is the study of the Runic alphabets, Runic inscriptions and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of Germanic linguistics. History Runology was initiated by Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), who was very interested in the ling ...

and petroglyphs. He is particularly known for his research on the

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s of Gotland. He is a co-editor of ''

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''.

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1979 births German philologists Germanic studies scholars Living people Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Old Norse studies scholars People from Kassel Runologists University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Writers on Germanic paganism {{Philologist-stub

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