Albrecht Jockenhövel

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Albrecht Jockenhövel (born June 6, 1943 in Wiesbaden ) is a German prehistorian .

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Albrecht Jockenhövel spent the first years of his life with his family in Idstein im Taunus , before they moved to Wommelshausen in 1945 , where Jockenhövel's great-grandfather was a teacher at the village school. Jockenhövel lived there until 1963.

Jockenhövel studied at the University of Frankfurt and received his doctorate in the summer of 1969 under Hermann Müller-Karpe with a thesis on The Razors in Central Europe . In 1979 he received his habilitation in Frankfurt with a thesis on The Razors in Western Europe . From 1987 to 2008 he was Professor of Prehistory and Protohistoric Archeology at the University of Münster and head of the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory, since 2006 of the Department of Prehistory and Protohistoric Archeology at the History Department of the University of Münster. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . On his 65th birthday, the commemorative publication Durch die Zeiten ... was published in 2008 .

In 2008 Jockenhövel wrote a “Mannheim Declaration” after reports about neo-Nazi tendencies at the Ulfhednar re-enactment group . Ulfhednar had been used at times by public television companies and museums to illustrate the time of the Vikings and Celts . At the 6th Archaeological Day in Mannheim, Jockenhövel called for people to distance themselves from the group.

Jockenhövel is a member of a commission of experts whose task it is to save the gold mine in Sakdirissi from destruction, which was revoked in 2013 by the Georgian government's 2006 status as a national cultural monument. Shortly thereafter, the facility also lost its recognition as an archaeological monument, which meant that gold mining could be carried out there again. According to researchers, remains of charcoal in deeper, undisturbed layers suggest that gold was mined in Sakdirissi as early as the 3rd millennium BC.

From 1999 Jockenhövel tried to get information about the last days and weeks of his father Karl-Heinz Jockenhövel, who died on August 20, 1943 near Smolensk . In 2013 he was able to visit his grave in Russia. Through the occupancy lists of the former hospital cemetery in Nikitino , he had gained clarity about the whereabouts of his father's body, which had been reburied in the German military cemetery in Duchowschtschina near Smolensk.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • The razors in Central Europe. (Southern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland) (= prehistoric bronze finds. Department 8: Razors. Vol. 1). CH Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-00749-X (= Dissertation University of Frankfurt am Main 1969, digitized version ).
  • The razors in Western Europe. (West Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Great Britain and Ireland) (= prehistoric bronze finds. Department 8: Razors. Vol. 3). CH Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-04006-3 (= habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt am Main 1979, digitized version ).
  • "Driving on the rope". Routine in late medieval mining? In: Early Medieval Studies . Vol. 36, 2002, pp. 501-515.

Editorships

  • Mining, smelting and forest use in the Middle Ages. Effects on humans and the environment. Results of an international workshop (Dillenburg, May 11-15, 1994. Economic History Museum “Villa Grün”) (= quarterly journal for social and economic history . Supplements. No. 121). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06644-6 .
  • Foundations of the global world from the beginning to 1200 BC Chr. (= WBG world history. Vol. 1). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-20104-4 .
  • Prehistory of Hesse , Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann a. Albrecht Jockenhövel, ed., Theis Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6

literature

  • Frank Verse (Ed.): Through the times…. Festschrift for Albrecht Jockenhövel on his 65th birthday. (= International Archeology - Studia honoraria . Vol. 28). Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2008, ISBN 978-3-89646-428-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Tietz: Saying goodbye after 70 years , in: Hinterländer Anzeiger , November 15, 2014.
  2. ^ Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology of the History Department , University of Münster.
  3. ↑ Mannheim Declaration on "Specialized Archeology and Reenactment" .
  4. ↑ Beate Selders, Andreas Speit : History repeats itself , Taz , July 16, 2008; Marcus Hammerschmitt: They just want to play , Telepolis , June 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ The oldest gold mine in the world is threatened with destruction , Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum .
personal data
SURNAME Jockenhövel, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden