Arie Kindler
Arie Kindler ( Hebrew אריה קינדלר; born on February 17, 1920 in Berlin ; died on July 23, 2014 in Ramat Gan , Israel ) was an Israeli numismatist and university professor.
Life
According to Arie Kindler, one of his earliest childhood memories was the opening of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in 1930, and since then he has been interested in archeology. The Kindler family left Germany as early as 1933: The reason for the decision to leave was because the father had read Hitler's Mein Kampf . In British-administered Palestine , the young Arie Kindler initially earned his living doing odd jobs. From 1938 he served in the Hagana underground organization for ten years . After being integrated into the Israel Defense Forces , Kindler was a soldier and reservist until 1978.
Kindler's professional interest was in classical studies , especially Jewish history. As early as the early 1940s, Kindler was rummaging through the offerings of coins and other archaeological objects at Arab street vendors in the markets of Jerusalem. As a scientist, he focused on numismatics and became a leading expert on Hasmonean coins. He completed his studies with a dissertation on the coins of Bostra . From 1974 to 1988 Kindler taught at the Archaeological Institute of Tel Aviv University and from 1981 to 1992 at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan .
From 1962 Kindler was director and curator of the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion , the numismatic department of the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv . He held this position until his retirement in 1997. The basis of the museum's coin collection was made up of 2,000 coins brought in by the founder Leo Kadman, 1,000 pieces from the Kindlers collection, and 500 coins from Walter Moses, the founder of the Eretz Israel Museum . Under Kindler's management, the collection was expanded by around 80,000 objects through foundations, inheritances and acquisitions, making it one of the most important coin collections in Israel.
Honorary positions
On May 10, 1945, Kindler and like-minded people founded an association for people interested in ancient coins, the Numismatic Section of the Tel Aviv Circle of Amateurs of Antiquities , from which the Israel Numismatic Society emerged in November 1947 . Kindler was temporarily chairman of the company.
Publications
Kindler was editor of 'Alon , the Hebrew-language journal of the Israel Numismatic Society , from 1967 to 1973 , and from 1980 co-editor of the Israel Numismatic Journal .
As a scientist, he published more than 200 essays and seven monographs on various topics of numismatics, from ancient coins to medieval Byzantine and Islamic coins to the coins of the State of Israel.
Fonts (selection)
- The coins of Tiberias. Hamei Tiberias, Tiberias 1961, OCLC 468921820 .
- as editor: The patterns of monetary development in Phenicia and Palestine in antiquity. Proceedings. International Numismatic Convention. Jerusalem December 27–31, 1963. Schocken, Tel-Aviv et al. 1967, OCLC 468909879 .
- with Ernst Werner Klimowsky: The function and pattern of the Jewish coins and the city coins of Palestine and Phenicia, (= Numismatic studies and researches. 5, ZDB -ID 2836861-7 ). Schocken, Tel-Aviv et al. 1968.
- as editor and editor: Bruno Kirschner : German ridicule medals on Jews (= publication of the Leo Baeck Institute . ). Ernst Battenberg, Munich 1968, OCLC 1292394 .
- The coinage of Bostra. Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1983, ISBN 0-85668-136-9 .
- with Alla Stein: A bibliography of the city coinage of Palestine from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD (= BAR. International Series. 374). British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 1987, ISBN 0-86054-482-6 .
literature
- Dan Barag (Ed.): Studies in honor of Arie Kindler (= Israel Numismatic Journal. Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 803189-7 ). Israel Numismatic Society, Jerusalem 1999.
- Joshua Schwartz (Ed.): ירושלים וארץ-ישראל ספר אריה קינדלר = Jerusalem and Eretz Israel. Arie Kindler volume. Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies et al., Ramat Gan et al. 2000, OCLC 234127888 , (partly in Hebrew language and script).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oliver Vrankovic: The last witnesses . In: Jungle World , May 21, 2015, accessed November 22, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Cecilia Meir: Dr. Arie Kindler (1920-2014). In: The Shekel. The Journal of Israel and Jewish History and Numismatics. Vol. 47, No. 6, 2014, ISSN 0037-3486 , pp. 41-43, ( Online PDF , 4.1 MB, accessed on November 22, 2019).
- ^ A b Arie Kindler: The History of the Israel Numismatic Society. In: Israel Numismatic Research. Vol. 2, 2007, ZDB -ID 2374553-8 , pp. 5–15, ( Online PDF , 570 kB, accessed on November 22, 2019).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kindler, aria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kindler, Arieh (different spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli university professor and numismatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd July 2014 |
| Place of death | Ramat Gan , Israel |