Berndmark Heukemes

Berndmark Heukemes (1924 - 2009) was a German provincial Roman archaeologist.

Berndmark Heukemes comes from a German-Belgian family. After attending school in Aachen , Heukemes took part in the Second World War . He was wounded six times, including once so badly that he was briefly blinded.

At the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, he studied, among other things, classical archaeology, prehistory and early history, art history, Islamic studies and numismatics and completed his studies in 1951. He was unable to realize his goal of working as an excavator in the Near East and Asia; instead, he dedicated himself to the archeology of his new hometown of Heidelberg.

Heukeme's most important finds include the burial ground of the Neckarsueben in Ladenburg, the Sol Mithras relief, the drama theater, the grave of Bishop Ludwig Anton of the Palatinate in the Sebastian Chapel, the Jupiter giant column, the 54-piece bronze treasure, the Burgus and the Celtic quadrilateral Schanze and in Heidelberg the grave of Elector Frederick the Victorious in the Jesuit Church and, with 1,400 graves, the largest contiguous burial ground in southern Germany.