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PhD dissertations:

The Pre-Frisian and Pre-Old English Runic Inscriptions: Two Corpora or One? The Frisian Question Revisited: Livia Roschdi (Projektdoktorandin)
Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger; completed 2018.
Publication: Kaiser, Livia: Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond: An Annotated Edition of the Old Frisian Runic Corpus (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 126, Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen 2). Berlin/Boston 2021 (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 126, Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen 2). Berlin/Boston 2021.

Extemporierte Schriftlichkeit: Runische Graffiti: Giacomo Bernobi
Supervisor: Alessia Bauer; completed 2018.
Publication: Bernobi, Giacomo: Extemporierte Schriftlichkeit. Runische Graffiti (Münchner Nordistische Studien 38). München 2020.

Visuella textkonventioner i den tidiga vikingatidens runristningar: Hanna Åkerström
(Uppsala Universitet 2020)
Member of Betygsnämnden: Christiane Zimmermann

The Reconstruction of the Ruthwell Cross Runic Text: Kerstin Majewski
Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger; completed 2021.
Publication: Majewski, Kerstin: The Ruthwell Cross and its Texts. – A New Reconstruction and an Edition of The Ruthwell Crucifixion Poem. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 132, Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen 3). Berlin/Boston 2022.

Runes in Old English Manuscripts: What Functions Do They Fulfill?: Niklas Biessenberger
Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger; completed 2020; publication 2023.

Building Scaffolds – A Contribution to Runological Research on Assumed Forgeries Using the Example of the Runic Inscription in the Kleines Schulerloch: Philipp Simon
Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger; completed 2022; publication 2023.

Die dänischen Runensteine der Wikingerzeit: eine graphematische Studie: Julia-Sophie Heier
Supervisor: Alessia Bauer

 

Master theses /Magister theses (completed):

Isländische Runen: genuine Tradition oder frühneuzeitliche Erscheinung: Pauline Wagenknecht
(Betreuerin: Alessia Bauer)

The Ruthwell Cross: Kerstin Majewski
(Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger)

The Early Rune Forms: Niklas Biessenberger
(Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger)

The Bergakker Scabbard Mount. The Language of the Inscription: Jenny Robins
(Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger)

Runensteine als Quelle für die Rolle der Frau in der Wikingerzeit: Jana Fohrmann
(Supervisor: Christiane Zimmermann)

Die Runensteine Bornholms als Zeugnisse der Christianisierung Skandinaviens: Deike Winter
(Supervisor: Christiane Zimmermann)

In addition, runological topics are regularly assigned for B.A. theses and final theses for the state exam (Zulassungsarbeiten).

 

Abschlussarbeit Euro-Scholar Programme:
The Euro-scholar-Programme is a programme of the elite universities in Europe. The candidates apply and if they are accepted they come to the respective university for a term (here: Munich University) and participate actively in a research project. Emile Young was the first participant at Munich University.

The Intriguing Runic Inscription on the Gandersheim Casket: Emile Young
(Supervisor: Gaby Waxenberger)

 

RuneSScholar Programme:
The RuneSScholar Programme, initiated by the RuneS research unit Eichstaett-Munich, offers a student from abroad a research visit of one or two months to Eichstaett, during which he/she is made familiar with the field of runology and the research undertaken at the RuneS research unit. The student independently carries out a short assignment independently, for which he/she receives a certificate issued by RuneS

RuneSScholars hitherto:

June 2013: Susan Elizabeth Newman Ooi (Catholic University of America)

July 2014: Elizabeth Holley Ledbetter (University of Texas at Austin)

2019: Bethany J. Christiansen (Ohio State University)