Felix Hettner

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Felix Hettner (1851–1902)

Felix Hettner (born July 29, 1851 in Jena , † October 12, 1902 in Trier ) was a German archaeologist .

Life

Felix Hettner was a son of the literary and art historian Hermann Hettner and his first wife Marie von Stockmar. He studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Bonn . At the suggestion of his teacher Franz Bücheler , he compiled a catalog of the local archaeological finds in the museum of the University of Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1877 with De Iove Dolicheno .

At the age of only 26 he was appointed founding director of the Provincial Museum Trier, today's Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier , in 1877 , which arose from the amalgamation of several older collections. In 1889, Hettner was able to inaugurate a new building for the museum.

Hettner, who was considered the leading archaeologist in West Germany in his time, carried out numerous excavations in Trier (including Barbarathermen , burial grounds, sewers) and in the Trier area (e.g. the temple area of Lenus Mars on Martberg , grave monuments from Neumagen ).

At the suggestion of Theodor Mommsen , Hettner became archaeological director of the research of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, which began in 1892, by the Imperial Limes Commission . In particular, he was responsible for the excavations of the Limes forts and one of the editors of the "Limeswerk" The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire . In 1898 he took over the management of the Trier Museum again.

Felix Hettner was co-founder in 1882 and co-editor of the West German magazine for history and art until his death .

Fonts (selection)

Boundary stone of the Pagus Carucum , drawing by Hettner after a plaster cast of the Provincial Museum in Trier (1903)
  • Catalog of the Royal Rhenish Museum of Patriotic Antiquities at the University of Bonn . Cohen, Bonn 1876.
  • De Iove Dolicheno . Dissertation University of Bonn 1877.
  • The Roman stone monuments of the Provincial Museum in Trier . Lintz, Trier 1893. dilibri
  • (Mithrsg.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire . Petters, Berlin 1894–1938.
  • Three temple districts in the Trevererlande . Lintz, Trier 1901.
  • Illustrated guide through the Provincial Museum in Trier . Lintz, Trier 1903.

literature

  • Hans Lehner : Felix Hettner . In: West German Journal for History and Art 21, 1902, pp. 338–361 ( digitized at the Internet Archive ).
  • Commemorative book for Felix Hettner (1851–1902) . Rheinisches Landesmuseums, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-923319-59-X (Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas, 65; not evaluated).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register, Trier registry office, No. 737/1902
  2. ^ Joseph Hansen : Felix Hettner † . In: West German Journal for History and Art 21, 1902, p. 337.
  3. ^ Charles-Marie Ternes : The Roman Civitas Treverorum in the picture of post-war research. I. From the foundation to the end of the third century In: the rise and fall of the Roman world . Volume II, 4. de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, p. 348 ( excerpt from GoogleBooks)
personal data
SURNAME Hettner, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1902
Place of death trier