Christian Ludwig Thomas

Christian Ludwig Thomas (born March 29, 1848 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 16, 1913 there ) was a German architect , archaeologist and royal building officer .

education

Christian Ludwig Thomas studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . During that time he took part in the Franco-German War in 1870/71. After completing his studies, Thomas worked for the Upper Hessian Railway Company for a short time . From 1875 to 1885 he was a freelance architect in Frankfurt and then devoted himself to archeology . In the same year (1875) he joined the Frankfurt Masonic Lodge "Zur Einigkeit".

archeology

Thomas was involved in the excavation of the Roman villa near Günthersburg in the north end of Frankfurt . Furthermore, he worked on excavations in Heddernheim and in the old town . Between 1904 and 1906, Thomas localized the oldest Frankfurt city ​​wall from the Ottonian period, which he ascribed to the Carolingians due to insufficient knowledge of ceramics and stratigraphy of the old town .

Fonts

Thomas-actuated many publications in the field of pre- and early history , including:

• Investigations of two Taunus ring walls. 1894. Online
• Pottery kilns in the Roman town near Heddernheim. 1894.
• The excavations in the cathedral courtyard and on the Weckmarkt. 1898.
• The oldest Frankfurt am Main. 1897.
• To the Roman settlement on the floor of Frankfurt's old town. 1901.
• Stone projectiles from the time of the siege of 1552. 1901.
• The Roman villa building near Güntersburg and Bornburg. Knauer, Frankfurt am Main 1903.
• The ring walls in the headwaters of the Bieber in the Spessart. 1905.
• The ring wall over the Heidetränk-Talenge , in: Nassauische Annalen, Volume 36, (1906), pp. 212-247

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
• Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Kirschner: Directory of Members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia , 1966.