Albert Voss

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Albert Voss

Albert Franz Ludwig Voss (born April 24, 1837 in Fritzow , Cammin district , † July 19, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Live and act

Albert Voß attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin until 1856 , studied medicine with Rudolf Virchow at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin from 1856 to 1859 , received his doctorate in 1860 with Otto Lehnerdt and G. Bremme and settled in Berlin in 1862 as a doctor . In 1868 he began his first prehistoric studies with Virchow and undertook excavations in Pomerania. He took part as an assistant doctor in the German War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71. In November 1870 he became a field staff doctor of the 3rd Jäger Battalion. After returning from the war, he devoted himself exclusively to prehistory. In 1874 Voss joined the museum service, first as an unskilled worker for the Nordic Antiquities Collection , where he had been Adolf Bastian's assistant to the director since 1876 . In 1886 he became department director of the collection of patriotic and other prehistoric antiquities of the Royal Museum of Ethnology . From 1874 to 1906 he increased the collection from 12,000 to over 100,000 numbers. In 1869 he was co-founder and secretary of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory , since 1880 a member of the Leopoldina , since 1884 an honorary member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Antiquity and since 1887 a corresponding member of the Vienna Anthropological Society. From 1888 to 1900 he was deputy chairman of the Association for the Museum of German Folk Costumes and Home Crafts (later incorporated in the Museum of European Cultures ). In 1889 he was given the status of a secret councilor.

Albert Voss was born with Adelheid Voss. Schmidt married.

Since 1857 he was a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg .

Writings and works

With Virchow, Voss was editor of the news about German antiquities . (15 volumes, Asher, Berlin 1890–1905). In addition, from 1897 to 1902 he co-edited the communications from the Museum for German Folk Costumes and Domestic Products in Berlin and published the following works in addition to articles in the negotiations of the Berlin Anthropological Society:

  • De lithargyrismo. Dissertation inauguralis medica . Lange, Berolini 1860; at the same time: Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin 1860.
  • Directory of the public and private collections of anthropological, ethnological and prehistoric objects in Germany and some neighboring countries . Oldenbourg, Munich 1876.
  • with Adolf Bastian as editor: The bronze swords of the Royal Museum in Berlin . Weidmann, Berlin 1878
  • Catalog of the exhibition of prehistoric and anthropological finds in Germany, which were made under the Protectorate of His Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the German Empire, in connection with the XI. General Assembly of the German Anthropological Society in Berlin from 5. – 21. August 1880 takes place in the office building of the House of Representatives . 2 volumes, Berg & Holten, Berlin 1880.
  • with Carl Günther: Photographic album of the exhibition of prehistoric and anthropological finds in Germany in photos based on the originals . Günther, Berlin 1880 (8 parts: 1. East and West Prussia, 2. Pomerania and Rügen, Abth. I, 3. Pomerania and Rügen, Abth. II, 4. Posen, Silesia, Brandenburg, Anhalt, 5. Mecklenburg, Lübeck , Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Waldeck, 6. Prussia. Province of Saxony, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Weimar, Royal Saxony, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Reuss jL, 7. Hessen-Nassau , Hessen-Darmstadt, Baden and Württemberg, 8th Bavaria)
  • with Gustav Stimming as editor: Prehistoric antiquities from the Mark Brandenburg . Lunitz, Brandenburg ad H. and Berlin 1887; 2nd edition, Spamer, Berlin 1890.
  • Memo book to dig up and keep antiquities . Mittler, Berlin 1888.
  • The great silver cauldron from Gundestrup in Jutland, a Mithrean monument in the north . In: Festschrift for Adolf Bastian on his 70th birthday on June 26, 1896 . Reimer, Berlin 1896.

literature

  • Christian Andree : Rudolf Virchow as a prehistorian. Volume 1: Virchow as the founder of modern German prehistory and early history. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1976, ISBN 3-412-01276-9 , pp. 140-142.
  • Abraham Lissauer: Obituary for Albert Voss. In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 38, 1906, pp. 761-762.
  • Johannes Ranke : Obituary for Albert Voss. In: Correspondence sheet of the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . Volume 37, 1906, pp. 68 and 104
  • Obituary for Albert Voss. In: Leopoldina . Volume 42, Hall 1906, p. 122 ( digitized version of the Biodiversity Heritage Library )
  • The week. Modern illustrated magazine . Issue 30, Berlin 1906, p. 1292 (with picture)
  • Globe . Volume 90, Braunschweig 1906, No. 7, p. 115.
  • K. Brunner: Administrative report . In: Messages from the Association of the Royal Collection for German Folklore in Berlin . Volume 2: 1902-1906. Heft 4, 1906, pp. 142-167, especially 142-143.
  • Voss, Albert . In: Hermann Haack (Ed.): Geographers Calendar . 5th year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 297.
  • Obituary. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. Volume 28, 1907, pp. I – IV (after p. 272, with picture)
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Volume 11: 1906. Reimer, Berlin 1908, column 69 *
  • Reimer Hansen, Wolfgang Ribbe and Willi Paul Adams: History in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries. Personalities and institutions . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-11-012841-1 , pp. 106-107 ( digitized from Google Books )
  • Herbert Kühn: History of Prehistory . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1976, ISBN 3-11-005918-5 , p. 243 ( digitized from Google Books )
  • Hans Gummel : History of Research in Germany . Berlin 1938, pp. 465–466, with picture on plate 16 (before p. 449)
  • Festschrift for the centenary of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory 1869–1969. (Communications from the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, Volume 3). Part 1: Technical historical contributions. Heßling, Berlin 1969, pp. 106-107. (with picture on plate 6)
  • The Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary. (Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica. Volume 36/37). Bruno Hessling Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-88609-907-X , especially the article: Tobias Gärtner: Founder of an international comparative research. Adolf Bastian and Albert Voss (1874–1906) . Pp. 80–102 (with picture), and the short biography on p. 535.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel chronicle . In: Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin . 1862, p. 209. In some sources (such as Ranke's obituary or Gummel: Forschungsgeschichte, p. 465) the year 1864 is given.
  2. ^ Member entry of Albert Voss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 1, 2015.
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208, 186
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Albert Franz Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Fritzow , Cammin district
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1906
Place of death Berlin