Arnold Nöldeke (monument conservator)

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Arnold Wilhelm Paul Otto Nöldeke (born July 12, 1875 in Essen ; † November 25, 1964 in Hanover ) was a German architect , building researcher , monument conservator , and state building officer in Hanover.

Life

Arnold Nöldeke attended Lyceum I in Hanover. With a talent for drawing and painting, Arnold Nöldeke had “initially turned to architecture and the fine arts” during his studies, but then to art history and, above all, archeology. His areas of interest also ranged from "history and technology to geographic research and ethnology". In 1909 he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on the mosque of al-Husain in Kerbela . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Macaro-Visurgia in Hanover .

Nöldeke mastered both the Turkish and the Arabic language . In 1902 he went to excavations in Mesopotamia for the first time under Robert Koldewey , "to Babylon to uncover the Ishtar Gate and the processional street ". From 1931 and 1939 Nöldeke headed the Uruk / Warka excavations . However, between the excavation campaigns, he regularly returned to the monuments in his homeland.

From 1915 Nöldeke worked for 25 years under the provincial conservators Heinrich Siebern and Hermann Deckert on the inventory of the art monuments in the province of Hanover . There “he deciphered weathered gravestones, followed up the building history, sought to clarify connections and data and to grasp the values ​​of the works of art”. The "medieval cross stone as an object of historical observation [was] equivalent to a Babylonian brick relief."

Arnold Nöldeke was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

Monuments in Lower Saxony

In the series

  • The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. by the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover

Nöldeke worked on the following circles, which were reflected in "his" writings:

Furthermore, Nöldeke devoted himself to the city ​​history of Hanover ; his band "Hanover [has] gained special documentary value": Nöldeke is the " much-quoted and last chronicler , the" still carefully the old cityscape to the details of a Gothic Season gable recorded before 1943 in the Second World War by the bombing of Hannover fell in ruins.

  • 1932: City of Hanover The art monuments of the city of Hanover (digitized parts 1 and 2)
    • Part 1, Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , The art monuments of the Province of Hanover . Vol. 1, H. 2, part 1, Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulze's bookstore, 1932
    • Part 2, monuments of the incorporated suburbs. The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 2, Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulze's bookstore, 1932

and similar

Even after his retirement in the position of an agricultural councilor, Nöldeke played a key role in the production of

Derived from the descriptions of Hanover, published posthumously (2003)

  • Working group human-nature-history (Hanover): Linden : local history, Martinskirche , von Altensches Rittergut , sovereign kitchen garden, ducal hunting arsenal, villa on the Lindener Berg, stately warehouse, windmill / AG Mensch-Natur-Geschichte. Based on the adaptations by Arnold Nöldeke from 1932. Series of publications "Zur Geschichte Lindens", Vol. 13. Hannover 2003

Excavations in Iraq (selection)

  • The sanctuary of al-Hussain at Kerbelâ. Berlin 1909 (= dissertation at the University of Erlangen)
  • Fourth preliminary report on the excavations undertaken by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft in Uruk. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1932. (Series: Treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class )
  • with H. Lenzen: Eleventh preliminary report on the excavations undertaken by the German Research Foundation in Uruk-Warka. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1940 (series of treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class )

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . de Gruyter, Berlin. Issue 7, 1950, p. 1467. Issue 11, 1970, p. 3429.
  • Arnold Nöldeke †. In: Lower Saxony Monument Preservation. Vol. 5: 1960-1964. August Lax Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim 1965, pp. 91–92.
  • Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke: Altiki the finder. Memoirs of an Excavator. Arnold Nodeke. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, ISBN 3-487-11732-0 .
  • Margarete van Ess , Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke (Ed.): Dr. Arnold Nöldeke: Letters from Uruk-Warka 1931–1939. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89500-485-8 Description .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: Youth. In: Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke (ed.): Altiki the finder. Memoirs of an Excavator. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, ISBN 3-487-11732-0 , p. 15ff., Here: p. 23.
  2. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Status: January 1928. Darmstadt 1928, p. 185.
  3. ↑ a b c Arnold Nöldeke †. In: Lower Saxony Monument Preservation. Vol. 5: 1960-1964. August Lax Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim 1965, pp. 91–92.
personal data
SURNAME Nöldeke, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nöldeke, Arnold Wilhelm Paul Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist, architect and building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1964
Place of death Hanover