Rafael of Uslar

Rafael von Uslar (born November 15, 1908 in Kyritz ; † June 10, 2003 in Mainz ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

Grave of Rafael and Gerda von Uslar in the Mainz-Hechtsheim cemetery

Von Uslar attended high school in Kassel and Warburg / Westf. He completed his studies from 1926 to 1932 (initially law, later prehistory, geology, art and cultural history) in Marburg , Munich and Vienna with a dissertation on "Germanic ceramics in Central and West Germany" with Gero von Merhart in From Marburg. In the same year he worked as a research assistant at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt and then at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn . Interrupted by military service, he worked there, most recently as a department director under Kurt Böhner . From 1960 until his retirement in 1975 he was Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Mainz .

In addition to his work on the Roman imperial era in Germania, his studies on prehistoric fortifications are particularly noteworthy. Von Uslar was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Publications (selection)

• West Germanic archaeological finds from Central and West Germany from the first to third centuries AD. German. Think Early Period 3 (Berlin 1938).
• About the use of speculative considerations of prehistoric finds. In: Yearbook of the RGZM 2, 1955, 1-20.
• Go to archaeological maps. In: Germania 33, 1955, 1 ff.
• Studies of prehistoric fortifications between the North Sea and the Alps. Bonner Jahrb. Beih. 11 (Cologne 1964)
• Germanic material culture in the first centuries after Christ (1975).
• Prehistoric find maps of the Alps. Rom.-Germ. Forsch. 48 (Mainz 1991).

literature

• Michael Müller-Wille : Obituary for Rafael von Uslar. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift Vol. 79, 2004, pp. 1-4.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rafael von Uslar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Directory of professors at the University of Mainz