Achim Leube

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Achim Leube (born January 27, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German prehistoric scientist .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Achim Leube studied Prehistory and Early History , Ethnography and German Folklore at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1954 to 1958 and graduated with a degree in Prehistory and Early History. In 1958/59 he was a research assistant there and from 1959 to 1962 a scheduled academic aspirant in the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory. In 1962 Leube received his doctorate, the subject of his dissertation was the cultural development from the early to the late Roman imperial era in the Oder-Spree area of ​​Brandenburg . Karl-Heinz Otto and Paul Grimm acted as examiners . From September 1962 until 1968, Leube was a research assistant at the Museum for Prehistory and Early History in Schwerin , Stralsund branch, and at the same time the district floor conservationist. This was followed by work as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR until 1991 . In 1971 he joined the SED . Leube completed his habilitation in 1990 on settlements and economics in northern Central Europe during the 1st to 6th centuries AD , reviewers were Bruno Krüger , Heinz Grünert and Horst Keiling . After a brief activity in 1992 as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute , Achim Leube taught from 1992 until his retirement in 2001 as a professor at the Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Leube is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute. On January 11, 2013, Leube was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the State Secretary for Science Knut Nevermann in Berlin .

Leube's research focuses on the culture, the settlements, the economy and the history of the Germanic tribes of northern Central Europe during the 1st to 6th centuries AD, the research history of German prehistory from the 16th century to 1945, in particular the period from 1933 to 1945 and their influence by the SS research community Ahnenerbe under Himmler and the Office for Prehistory under Rosenberg , as well as the development, ideological and political integration of German prehistory from 1933 to 1945. Current research focuses are the research history in Brandenburg from the beginnings to 1945, the Roman Empire and Migration Period in Havelland and Lower Lusatia (1st – 6th centuries AD) and the prehistory and early history of the island of Rügen .

Fonts

  • The cultural development from the early to the late Roman Empire in the Oder-Spree area of ​​Brandenburg (3 volumes, dissertation), Berlin 1962
  • The Roman Empire in the Oder-Spree area , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1975 (publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam, vol. 9)
  • (Ed.) House and farm in eastern Germania , Habelt, Bonn 1998 (University research on prehistoric archeology, vol. 50 / writings on the archeology of Germanic and Slavic early history, vol. 2) ISBN 3-7749-2795-2
  • (Ed.) Prehistory and National Socialism. Research on prehistory and early history in Central and Eastern Europe in the years 1933–1945 , Synchron, Heidelberg 2002 (Studies on Science and University History, Vol. 2) ISBN 3-935025-08-4
  • Prehistory between the Empire and the reunified Germany. 100 years of prehistory and early history at the Berlin University Unter den Linden. Habelt, Bonn 2010. ISBN 978-3-7749-3629-4 .

literature

  • Michael Meyer (Ed.): "... trans Albim fluvium". Research on pre-Roman, imperial and medieval archeology. Festschrift for Achim Leube on his 65th birthday. Leidorf, Rahden 2001, ISBN 3-89646-390-X ( International Archeology. Studia honoraria. Vol. 10).
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 392-393.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for Achim Leube ( Memento from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Press and Public Relations Office, message from January 21, 2013 from Constanze Haase
personal data
SURNAME Leube, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin