Daniel Krencker

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Daniel Krencker in Aksum (1st from right) with other participants of the German Aksum expedition and Governor Gebre Selassie, February 1906

Daniel Krencker (born July 15, 1874 in Andolsheim , † November 10, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German building researcher from Alsace .

Life

The son of a priest first studied science and mathematics at the University of Strasbourg , then from 1894 to 1898 architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . As a student, Krencker became a member of the Wingolf Association Argentina Strasbourg, the Berlin Wingolf and the Charlottenburg Wingolf. After working in the civil service, he took part as a building researcher in an expedition to the Middle East, which explored Baalbek and Palmyra , among other places, from 1900 to 1904 . Further research trips led Krencker in the following years to Aksum in Ethiopia and to Anatolia ( Hattuša ). After he had been head of the building construction office in Quedlinburg for a few years , Krencker headed the excavations of the Kaiserthermen in Trier from 1912 to 1922, interrupted by military service from 1914 to 1918, which had been thought to be a palace building before his research. In August 1922, Krencker became professor of building history at the Technical University of Berlin.

Krencker mainly dealt with the Roman and late antique building history. His most important research areas included the ancient temples of the Near East, such as the temple of the Roma and Augustus in Ankara and the Temple of Zeus in Aizanoi , as well as the Roman thermal baths , which he was the first to systematically examine.

In 1910 Krencker became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and in 1922 a full member . From 1931 he was chairman of the scientific "Institute of Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich", ELI, at the University of Frankfurt am Main , until 1941. During the Nazi era , he welcomed the fact that Hitler , "promoter of the fine arts [...] like no other ”, will bring German art to bloom again in Lorraine and Alsace.

Daniel Krencker died in Berlin in 1941 at the age of 67. His grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend has not been preserved.

Fonts

Bank building of the Reichsbank in Quedlinburg, Adelheidstrasse 3
  • Older monuments of North Abessia . Reimer, Berlin 1913.
  • The Roman Trier . German Art publishing house, Berlin 1923.
  • with Emil Krüger, H. Lehmann, H. Wachtler: The Trierer Kaiserthermen. Dept. 1. excavation report and basic investigations of Roman thermal baths . Filser, Augsburg 1929.
  • with Martin Schede : The temple in Ankara . de Gruyter, Berlin 1936.
  • with Willy Zschietzschmann : Roman temples in Syria . Text and chalkboard. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938; Reprinted 1978.
  • The pilgrimage church of Simeon Stylites in Kalʼat Sim'ân . Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1938.
  • German art in Alsace and Lorraine . In: Otto Meissner (Ed.): German Alsace. German Lorraine. A cross-section of history, folklore and culture . Berlin: Otto Stolberg, 1941, pp. 97–144
  • Rudolf Naumann (arrangement and ed.): The Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi. After the excavations by Daniel Krencker and Martin Schede . de Gruyter, Berlin 1979. (Monuments of ancient architecture 12). ISBN 3-11-007879-1

Buildings

literature

Web links

Commons : Daniel Krencker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German art in Alsace and Lorraine , 1941, pp. 143f.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 489.
personal data
SURNAME Krencker, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Andolsheim
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1941
Place of death Berlin