Hans-Georg Stephan

Hans-Georg Stephan (born 30 May 1950) is a German university professor specializing in European medieval archaeology and post-medieval archaeology.

Stephan was born in Beverungen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He studied archaeology, European ethnology (Volkskunde), and historical ancillary sciences at the University of Münster, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Cardiff University. After that, he worked at the University of Kiel and in Lübeck as city archaeologist until 1977. From then until 2004, he worked at the University of Göttingen's Department of Prehistory and Early History (i.e., archaeology). He completed his habilitation in 1992. In 2004, he was appointed professor of medieval and post-medieval archaeology at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Stephan is married and has two children.

Stephan's areas of specialization include interdisciplinary archaeological research in the first and second millennia AD, medieval settlement and landscape archaeology, urban topography and architectural history, renaissance material culture (especially ceramics, glass, and oven tiles), economic history (especially pottery, metallurgy and glass production), and archaeometry.