Andreas Lippert

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Andreas Lippert (born April 21, 1942 in Vienna ) is an Austrian prehistorian .

biography

Andreas Lippert is the son of the architect Georg Lippert (1908–1992). He studied from 1960 to 1967 Pre- and Early History , as well as economic and social history in Edinburgh, Bonn and Vienna. In 1964 he received the diploma in Etruscology at the Summer University of Perugia . He was in 1967 with the dissertation at the University of Vienna , the Avar cemetery at Zwölfaxing in Lower Austria  Dr. phil. PhD. In 1967 he worked in the prehistoric department of the Natural History Museum Vienna and was involved in setting up its display collection .

In 1968 Lippert moved to the University of Innsbruck and worked there as an assistant until 1976. In 1973 he completed his habilitation with the topic “Contributions to the knowledge of the late Hallstatt culture in East Tyrol and Carinthia before the influence of the Latène culture ” and received the venia legendi  in the subject “Prehistory and Early History of Man”. Lippert was appointed associate professor for prehistory and early history in 1976, and from 1988 he headed the department for prehistory and early history of the Alpine region. In the meantime, he has held visiting professorships at the Institute for History at the University of Salzburg . During his time at the University of Innsbruck, he and  Karl Kromer led the annual Austrian excavations in Iran from 1974 to 1978 for an Iron Age citadel on the Kordlar Tepe .

Lippert returned to Vienna in 1992 when he was appointed full professor at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Vienna.

research

Lippert researched settlement sites and necropolises from the Bronze and Iron Ages in Tyrol, Salzburg and Lower Austria. From 1975 to 1996 he carried out landscape archaeological research at sites of settlements, burial grounds, mining traces and early churches in the Bischofshofener Basin in Pongau . In 1991/1992 he undertook subsequent excavations at the " Ötzi " site in the Ötztal Alps . He carried out settlement archaeological research in the Raab valley in eastern Styria and on the lower Mur  in the Radkersburg district from 1999 to 2009.

Fonts (selection)

  •  The grave field of Welzelach (East Tyrol). A mining necropolis of the late Hallstatt period (= Antiquitas . Series 3: Treatises on prehistory and early history, on classical and provincial Roman archeology and on the history of antiquity. 12). Habelt, Bonn 1972, ISBN 3-7749-1164-9 .
  • with Falko Daim : The Avar burial ground of Sommerein in the Leithagebirge, Lower Austria . Vienna 1984.
  • as editor:  Reclams Archaeological Guide Austria and South Tyrol. Monuments and museums of prehistory, Roman times and the early Middle Ages (= Reclams Universal Library . 10333). Reclam, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-15-010333-9 .
  • The Götschenberg near Bischofshofen. A prehistoric hilltop settlement in the Salzachpongau (= communications from the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 27). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7001-1967-4 .
  • with Lawrence Barfield and Ebba Koller:  The Witness from the Glacier. The riddle of the early Alpine Europeans. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-8000-3478-6 .
  • with Peter Stadler: The late bronze and early iron age burial ground of Bischofshofen-Pestfriedhof (= university research on prehistoric archeology. 168). Habelt, Bonn 2009,  ISBN 978-3-7749-3576-1 .
  • with Christian Zindel, Bashkim Lahi, Machiel Kiel : Albania. An archeology and art guide from the Stone Age to the 19th century. Böhlau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20723-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lippert, Andreas in the Österreich-Lexikon
personal data
SURNAME Lippert, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna