Christoph Willms

Christoph Willms (born March 13, 1948 in Wanne-Eickel (now Herne ), † November 22, 2015 in Groß-Gerau ) was a German prehistoric expert and specialist in archaeometallurgy .

Life

Willms studied prehistory, ethnology and folklore at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In 1978 he did his doctorate under Karl Josef Narr on the Neolithic Michelsberg culture and the flint trade .

After his dissertation, Willms worked at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland (1978–1979), as an assistant at the Prehistory and Protohistory Seminar at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (1981–1986), at the Museum for Prehistory and Protohistory Frankfurt (1988–1990 and 1998–2000) and for the research project “Archaeometallurgy” at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and the Westphalian Museum of Archeology in Münster (1990–1997). Together with Albrecht Jockenhövel , he published a number of articles on medieval iron extraction and a comprehensive work on the conclusion of the Dietzhölzetal project .

From 2001, Willms headed the prehistoric department of the Archaeological Museum in Frankfurt. Among other things, the special exhibition “The Celtic Prince from Frankfurt. Power and the cult of the dead around 700 BC Chr. “Designed by him.

In 2013 Willms retired, but continued to work in the archive of the Frankfurt Museum on an overview of the collection.

Bibliography (selection)

Monographs

• The rock artifacts of the Cortaillod layers, The neolithic bank settlements of Twann, Vol. 9, Paul Haupt, Bern, 1980.
• Two sites of the Michelsberg culture from the western Münsterland, at the same time a contribution to the Neolithic flint trade in Central Europe. Dissertation. Münster's contributions to prehistory and early history 12, Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim, 1982 (dissertation from 1978).
• Changes in the environment through humans - from the Neolithic to antiquity, 6th study letter of the project Biological Evolution of Humans of the German Institute for Further Education (DIFF), Tübingen, 1989 (test version, unprinted).
• Man and Nature in the Neolithic Age: About Man's Interventions in his Environment in the Period from 5600 to 2400 BC Chr., Book accompanying the touch exhibition of the same name in the mole burrow, City of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, 1991.
• The Celtic prince from Frankfurt, power and the cult of the dead around 700 BC Chr., Archaeological Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
• The Dietzhölzetal project. Archaeometallurgical studies on the history and structure of medieval iron extraction in the Lahn-Dill area (Hesse). (Münster contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology 1), VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden, 2005 (with Albrecht Jockenhövel).
• Frankfurt's archeology. Stone Age, Archaeological Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
• Frankfurt's archeology. Metallzeiten, Archaeological Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2010.

Contributions

• The chronological fixation of flat hammer axes from a southern perspective, in the yearbook of the Swiss Society for Prehistory and Early History , 65, 1982, 7 ff.
• Obsidian in the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Europe, An overview, in Germania , 61.2, 1983, 327 ff.
• Neolithic Spondylusschmuck: Hundred Years of Research, in Germania , 63, 1985, 331–343.
• Grain in the European Early Neolithic, in Saeculum , 42.1, 1991, 104 ff.
• Homo sapiens sapiens - an exterminating creature from the beginning? On the human-environment relationship in pre-Christian times, in Plattform , 1, 1992, 45 ff (with Albrecht Jockenhövel).
• Archeology without excavation, On the possibilities and limits of prospection methods, in Der Märker , 42.4, 1993, 177-181.
• Excavations on an early “mass hut” in the upper Wippertal, in Archäologie im Rheinland , 1994 (1995), 132–135.
• Structure and organization of smelting in the Dill / Dietzhölze-Revier, in JOCKENHÖVEL, Albrecht (Ed.), Mining, Smelting and Forest Use in the Middle Ages, Effects on Humans and the Environment, Supplement VSGW 121, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, 30–50.
• Early industrial landscapes in the Dillenburg area and in the Märkisches Sauerland, in settlement research, Archeology-History-Geography , 16, 1998 (1999), 339–362.
• Research excavations for iron production in the Märkisches Sauerland 1994–96 (in press).
• Lion, elk and turtle: no Neolithic fairy tale, in ECKERT, Jörg, EISENHAUER, Ursula and ZIMMERMAN, Andrea (eds.), Archaeological Perspectives, Analyzes and Interpretations in Change, Festschrift for Jens Lüning on his 56th birthday, International Archeology 20, VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2003, 181–194.
• Tradition and Innovation: Early Blast Furnaces in Central Europe between the Early and Late Middle Ages, in NICODEMI, Walter and MAPELLI, Carlo (Eds.), The Civilization of Iron: from Prehistory to the Third Millenium, Milan, Olivares, 2004, 197 –208 (with Albrecht Jockenhövel).
• Excavated 100 years ago - a late urn field age "stone packing grave" from Frankfurt's Osthafen, in Hessen- Aräologie , 2008, 50–53.
• Again to the Frankfurt Osthafen excavation from 1909 - urn grave A33, in Hessen-Archäologie , 2009, 54–57.
• A late urnfield “large head needle” from the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt, Hessen- Aräologie , 2010, 35–37.
• Kierspe-Fernhagen (Märkischer Kreis), smelting site No. 11 in JOCKENHÖVEL, Albrecht (ed.), Medieval iron extraction in the Märkisches Sauerland: Archaeometallurgical investigations on the beginnings of blast furnace technology in Europe, Münster's contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology 7, VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2013, 21–56.
• Kierspe-Fernhagen (Märkischer Kreis), smelting site no. 72, Ibidem , 67–89.
• Hatchets and axes made of rock. In: H. Floss (Ed.), Steinartifakte. From the old Paleolithic to modern times. Tübingen 2013, pp. 857-874.
• The stone box grave of Bad Nauheim, status of the evaluation in 2015, in FASOLD, Peter, GIEMSCH, Liane, OTTENDORF, Kim and WINGER, Daniel (ed.), Research in Franconofurd, commemorative publication for Egon Wamers on his 65th birthday, Schnell + Steiner , Regensburg, 2017, 55–75.

Reviews

Reviews in various journals ( Zeitschrift für Altertumskunde und Kunstgeschichte, Germania, Nassau Annals and History in Science and Education ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://archaeologisches-museum.frankfurt.de/index.php/de/forschung Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt

Web links

• Willm's obituary at the Archaeological Museum in Frankfurt
• Willms publications at Bibliography of the German Archaeological Institute
• Willms Publications at Worldcat.org