Christian Pescheck (prehistoric)

Christian Pescheck (born August 12, 1912 in Breslau ; † August 20, 2003 in Munich ) was a prehistorian, university teacher and monument conservator.

Pescheck graduated from high school "Zum Heiligen Geist" in Breslau and then studied prehistory at the universities of Munich and Breslau . In 1937 he was promoted to Dr. phil is doing his doctorate. He subsequently worked as an assistant and then a lecturer at the University of Vienna , where he completed his habilitation in 1942 . His unpublished habilitation thesis The Junghallstättische Kultur im Reichsgau Niederdonau was a first summary and epochal interpretation of this cultural phenomenon for Eastern Austria (specimen copy in the library of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the University of Vienna)

From 1956 to 1977 Pescheck was head of the Würzburg branch of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and from 1963 he had a teaching position at the University of Würzburg (honorary professor). He was also involved in numerous excavations, for example in the Oppidum Manching but also in Beni-Salame in Egypt.

Christian Pescheck wrote numerous specialist papers of trend-setting importance for both Lower Austria and Bavaria.

Works (selection)

• The early Wallalian culture in Central Silesia , sources on East German prehistory and early history 5, Leipzig 1939
• Painted ceramics 2500 years ago , Vienna-Leipzig 1945
• Textbook of Prehistory Research , Weende-Göttingen 1950
• Catalog Würzburg I , Kallmünz 1958
• The prehistory and early days of Lower Franconia , Würzburg 1961
• Settlement problems in Upper Franconia , reports from the historic Bamberg 100 Association, 1964
• The Germanic archaeological finds of the Roman Empire in Mainfranken , Munich Contributions to Pre- and Early History 27, 1978
• New row grave finds from Lower Franconia , Kallmünz 1983
• The Celts in the district of Schweinfurt , Kallmünz 1992
• The Franconian row grave field of Kleinlangheim, Lkr.Kitzingen, Northern Bavaria . Mainz 1996

literature

• Jan Filip : Encyclopedic Handbook on the Prehistory and Early History of Europe 2 . Prague 1969, pp. 1015f.
• Otto Helmut Urban : Announcement of the death of our honorary member em. Prof. Dr. Christian Pescheck . In: Archeology of Austria . Volume 15, Issue 3, 2004, p. 2.
• Michael Hoppe : On the death of Christian Pescheck. Prof. Dr. Christian Pescheck (1912-2003) . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst . Volume 56, 2004, p. 3ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Pescheck in the catalog of the German National Library