Stefan Krmnicek

Stefan Krmnicek is a scholar at the University of Tübingen and director of the Numismatische Arbeitsstelle [de] specializing in the cultural history of money and coinage, particularly in relation to archaeology, numismatics, anthropology, and sociology.^[1] He also contributes to the digital humanities through his archaeogaming and virtual reality projects.^[2]

Biography

Krmnicek studied in Vienna, Padova, Frankfurt and Cambridge and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Hans-Markus von Kaenel [de]. His doctoral research examined the coin finds from the Iron Age and Roman transitional period at the Magdalensberg site in Noricum.^[3] Following his doctorate, he held a postdoctoral research position at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester^[4] before joining the University of Tübingen.

Select books

• 2025 - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Tübingen. Band 7. Ägypten. Alexandria und Gaumünzen. Augustus – Diocletianus. Heidelberg: Propylaeum eBooks. (with E. Meral)
• 2023 - Römische Archäologie in Deutschland. Positionsbestimmung und Perspektiven. Heidelberg: Propylaeum-DOK. (ed. with D. Maschek)
• 2023 - Institutions and Individuals. The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 127. London: Routledge. (ed. with Hadrien J. Rambach)
• 2023 - Academia and Trade. The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 126. London: Routledge. (ed. with Hadrien J. Rambach)
• 2020 - The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with S. James)
• 2019 – (ed.) A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity (paperpack edition 2023); Chinese edition: 货币文化史I 希腊罗马时期.钱币的诞生与权力象征, Shanghai: Wenhui Publishing House (2022).^[5]
• 2019 - Money Matters : Coin Finds and Ancient Coin Use. Bonn : Verlag Dr. Rudolph Habelt GmbH (ed. with Jérémie Chameroy)
• 2017 – (ed.) Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) auf Medaillen und Plaketten. Sammlung des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen. Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm, Neue Serie 2. Tübingen: Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen.
• 2014 - 'Art in the Round': New Approaches to Ancient Coin Iconography. Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen 16. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf (ed. with N.T. Elkins)^[6]