The Autodidactic historian

Wissenschaft persönlich: Dr. Lucas Haasis Dr. Lucas Haasis ist Senior Researcher am Deutschen Schifffahrtsmuseum, Leibniz Institut für Maritime Geschichte in Bremerhaven und in den Forschungsfeldern Geschichte und Digital Humanities tätig. Ak...

What does a Senior Researcher at the German Maritime Museum actually do? I had the chance to share my path, my work on global #maritimehistory & the Prize Papers in an interview for “Wissenschaft persönlich.” Curious how Tucholsky & Werder Bremen fit in? Have a look! (in German)
#earlymodern 🗃️

Silver penny of Eadberht.

Eadberht, king of the Northumbrians, died #OTD in 768. He added Cyil (Kyle, Ayrshire) to his kingdom in 750 and joined forces with the Picts to cow the Clyde Britons in 756. Days after the latter venture his army suffered an obscure and severe defeat. In 758 he became a monk. #medievalsky

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Gemälde von Jean Baptiste Morret, Schlacht bei Staffarda

#OTD 1690 : Die Schlacht bei Staffarda im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg gewinnen die französischen Truppen gegen ein Heer aus Savoyen.

A photograph of a wreck taken underwater.

A photograph of a ship's ladder taken underwater.

Congratulations to the "Wrecks" project team from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Baden-Württemberg: 31 unknown wrecks have been found in Lake Constance so far.

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🏺 #archaeology

Copper brooch has concentric circles in the centre defined with gold wires and set with garnets, with 4 triangular points extending in N, E, S, W positions. Around the edge is another circular band of garnets. Between the edge and centre, in the spaces between the points are four small circles set with garnet, defined in gold wire, with rounded garnets in the centre of each. In the spaces between small circles and points are gold plates decorated with designs of intertwining gold wire.

#FindsFriday
In the #Saxon grave of a wealthy woman in London's Covent Garden were found silver rings, glass beads and this fine brooch, probably in a bag around her neck.
The copper brooch is decorated w gold plates + gold wire and set with polished garnets. Mid 7th C.
London Museum collections. 🏺

A Roman burial chamber with stone walls and arched niches. Marble busts are placed in recessed alcoves on both sides, while a decorated sarcophagus stands in the center, carved with figures in relief. The room is dimly lit

#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2

#archaeology 🏺

7th century Reliquary of Theuderic, a masterpiece of silversmithing and cloissoné work. Good stuff.

At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.

A close-up photo of a a bronze fibula ( brooch/pin), featuring a stylized bird figure sitting on top of a coiled, spiraling wire form. The fibula has a greenish patina typical of aged bronze, the bird's body features engraved lines. The object is photographed against a black background.

A fibula (decorative pin for fastening garments) decorated with a water bird, dating 5th century BC. Found at the Heidentor near Egesheim.
Water birds frequently appear as ornaments since the Bronze Age. They had a special significance in the perception... 🧵1/2

#archaeology 🏺

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I like summer and all, but maybe a little less heat, please...🥵

Banner der SAiL im Hintergrund, ebenfalls im Foto: Originalfeder aus dem Jahr 1745, Prize Papers, The National Archives, ref. HCA 32/143, Foto von Maria Cardamone, und Titel der Veranstaltung.

Trefft mich am Freitag, 14 & 16 Uhr auf der Wissenschaftsmeile der SAiL in Bremerhaven! Entdeckt die „Welt im Postsack“: Gekaperte Briefe & globale maritime Leben 16.–18. Jh., wie Handelsschiffe legal gekapert wurden & was 250 Jahre alte Post über Geschichte verrät #Geschichte #earlymodern #SAiL2025

#OTD:
1759 - Schlacht bei Kunersdorf

Die Preußen unter Friedrich II. (der Große) gegen ein Bündnis von Russen und Österreichern.

Friedrich II. erleidet eine herbe Niederlage und wird vermutlich nur durch den Tod der russischen Zarin Katharina II. vor Schlimmeren bewahrt.

480 BCE #OTD:
Der Heldenmythos um König Leonidas I. und seine Spartaner wird mit der Schlacht bei den Thermopylen (Perserkriege) geboren.

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
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Screen grab from website Academia.edu, with message "An AI created a podcast of your paper," the label "Private to you," and a button to listen to the podcast

For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

To complete this quote and redeem our first chancellor:
"Es kann mich doch niemand daran hindern, jeden Tag klüger zu werden."

"Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern."
(Konrad Adenauer zugeschrieben)

The number of times this quote pops up in my mind is exponentially increasing in the last couple of weeks.

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Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
(Vegetius, 4th century BCE)

YouTube video by EuroArtsChannel Evgeny Kissin: Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1, Op 11 (Tel Aviv, 2011)

And a little Chopin
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YouTube video by EuroArtsChannel Debussy - La Puerta del Vino | Joaquín Achúcarro at Teatro Real

Good Morning!
I'm starting my day with a little Debussy...
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Eine viereckige Gurtschnalle aus Bronze mit einem stark vereinfachten Adlerkopf, der mittig ein Loch ausweist. Dort befand sich sehr wahrscheinlich ein Schmuckstein.

Solche Schnallen (hier Dahrenstedt (Lkr. Stendal)) aus der 1. Hälfte des 5. Jh. zählen zur Sachkultur der Gepiden, einem ostgermanischen Stamm aus dem Karpatenbecken, der zeitweilig unter hunnische Herrschaft geriet. Vermutlich saß im Adlerkopf ein roter Almandin. © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták.

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Can you please share the name of the app?

A close-up of an ornate, reddish-orange carved flask with a leaf-like pattern and a stopper, set against a black background.

A stunning #Roman amber flask, found in Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD.
Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire.

📷: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia

🏺 #archaeology

“She walks in beauty, like the night, Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that’s best of dark and bright, Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, born #OTD 1788. Portrait by Richard Westall 1813, National Portrait Gallery London

“She walks in beauty, like the night,
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright,
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, born #OTD 1788.
Portrait by Richard Westall 1813, National Portrait Gallery London

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
(Martin Luther King Jr.)

5 kleine Schmuckanhänger aus Gold, die nach unten spitz zu laufen und mit verschiedenen Goldapplikationen (aufgelötet oder geschmiedet) verziert sind. Dazu gehören unter anderem kleine Kugeln, geflochtene und gedrehte Bänder.

Die fünf kleinen Schmuckanhänger wurden alle 2007 bei archäologischen Grabungen bei Profen (Burgenlandkreis) entdeckt. Die einzeln als Halsschmuck getragenen Goldanhänger waren im 1. Jahrhundert nach Christus ein typischer Statusanzeiger für Frauen des „Ortsadels“. © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt, J. Lipták