Bruno Meyer-Plath

Bruno Otto Wilhelm Ernst Meyer-Plath (born September 26, 1902 in Krönnevitz near Stralsund, † October 12, 1987 in Hanover ) was a German building researcher .

Life

Bruno Meyer attended the Oberrealschule in Stralsund and then studied architecture from 1926 to 1930 at the technical universities in Berlin and Gdansk, graduating in 1931 in Gdansk. From 1931 to 1934 he worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul and worked on the land wall of Constantinople with Alfons Maria Schneider . He also took part in the excavation in Larisa at the Hermos . From 1934 to 1938 he was assistant at the chair for building history and form theory at the TH Danzig under Fritz Krischen , where he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD . In 1938 he began construction work with Krischen Porta Nigra in Trier. In 1939 he took the family name Meyer-Plath . From April to October 1939 he worked as excavation manager in Carnuntum , then in military service. In 1947 he became an assistant at the chair for architectural and art history at the TH Hannover under Uvo Hölscher and received his habilitation there in 1951. From 1961 he taught as an adjunct professor for the theory of forms in building history, building surveying and projection theory, in 1966 he was appointed scientific advisor and professor, and in 1967 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

• with Alfons Maria Schneider: The land wall of Constantinople . Volume 2. Recording, description and history (= monuments of ancient architecture, volume 8). De Gruyter, Berlin 1943.
• The Porta nigra in Trier (= guide sheets of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier NF 1). Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 1958.
• The architecture of the Porta Nigra . In: Erich Gose (Ed.): The Porta Nigra in Trier . Berlin 1969, pp. 71-86.

literature

• Martin Dennert: Meyer-Plath, Bruno Willi Ernst Otto . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Vol. 2, pp. 907-908.