Eduard Anthes

Eduard Anthes (born June 5, 1859 in Brensbach , † February 7, 1922 in Darmstadt ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Training and school service

From 1873 to 1877 Anthes attended grammar school in Darmstadt and then did his military service as a one-year-old . He then studied theology and classical philology in Leipzig , earned his doctorate in 1884 and passed the state examination for teaching in Latin , Greek , German , history and geography for lower and middle classes in 1885 . He immediately got a job at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt and switched to the New Gymnasium there in 1894. In 1897 he was appointed high school professor.

archaeologist

In his free time, Eduard Anthes was intensively concerned with local prehistory and early history . In 1892 he was appointed route commissioner of the Reich Limes Commission. After Germany's first modern monument protection law came into force in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1902 and a monument council was formed on the basis of it, he was appointed a member.

In 1909 he was appointed as a full-time “ monument conservator for antiquities” (today: ground monument conservator or archaeological monument conservator). He was probably the first full-time archaeological preservationist in Germany.

On March 18, 1919 he received the Venia legendi for archeology at the TH Darmstadt .

souvenir

Since 1991 the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Darmstadt Administrative Region e. V. (founded in 1964) every two years the Eduard Anthes Prize for Archeology in conjunction with the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art . This honors dissertations by young archaeologists who have researched the prehistory and early history of the German low mountain range between the upper Neckar and the north German lowlands. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros.

Fonts (selection)

• The antiquities of the Counts Erbach-Erbachischen collection to Erbach iO Bergsträsser, Darmstadt 1885.
• On the history of the Main Valley in Roman times. Wailandt, Aschaffenburg 1899.
• The Gross-Gerau fort. In: Quarterly sheets of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse. NS Vol. 2, No. 13, 1899, ZDB -ID 517940-3 , pp. 520-533.
• Contributions to the history of settlement between the Rhine, Main and Neckar. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. NF Vol. 3, No. 2, 1902, ISSN  0066-636X , pp. 279-318.
• The Alzei fort. In: Quarterly sheets of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse. NS Vol. 4, No. 16, 1909, ZDB -ID 517940-3 , pp. 417-426.
• The Inheiden fort (= The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire . Dept. B, Vol. 2.2, No. 17). According to older studies by Ms. Kofler . Petters, Heidelberg 1912.
• The Altenstadt fort (= The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire. Dept. B, Vol. 2.2, No. 20). Petters, Heidelberg 1912.
• The Seckmauern fort (= The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire. Dept. B, Vol. 5.1, No. 46b). Petters, Heidelberg 1912.
• with Karl Henkelmann: The Lorsch Monastery. Kaulbach, Bensheim 1922.

literature

• Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann : The archaeological research of the Roman period in Hessen. In: Dietwulf Baatz , Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann (Hrsg.): The Romans in Hessen . 3. Edition. 1989. Licensed edition Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 , pp. 29-31.
• Egon Schallmayer : Eduard Anthes: teacher - Limes researcher - monument conservationist. A biographical sketch. In: Find reports from Hessen 53/54, 2013/2014 (Wiesbaden 2017), pp. 187-254.