Edith Hoffmann (prehistoric)

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Edith Hoffmann (* as Edith Ludewig on September 7, 1929 in Dresden ) is a German prehistorian .

Edith Hoffmann became a member of the FDJ after the Second World War . In 1948 she passed her high school diploma and was then a member of the FDJ state committee of Saxony until 1950. In 1948 she became a member of the CDU and was a full-time member of the CDU state executive in 1949/50. In 1950 Hoffmann began studying German and Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Leipzig (KMU). In 1954 she passed the state examination and became a research assistant, and in 1959 senior research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of SMEs. The promotion took place in March 1959 with a thesis on the Pottery in Saxony , evaluators were Friedrich Behn and Gerhard Mildenberger . In the same year she left the CDU, in 1966 she joined the SED . In September 1968 Hoffmann became a lecturer for prehistory and early history at the SME, where in April 1979 also the PhD B with Rigobert Günther , Werner Berthold and Heinz Grünert with the work Investigations on the Agrarian Revolution of the Productive Forces in the Middle East took place. From September 1979 to 1989 Hoffmann taught as a full professor for prehistory and early history at the SME. Between 1983 and 1988 she was head of the prehistory / ancient history department of the university. In 1989 she retired. Hoffmann was with the banner of work , III. Level, excellent.

Fonts

  • with Barbara Treide : Jewelry in the past, distant peoples , Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1976
    • Jewelry from earlier cultures and distant peoples , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1976, ISBN 3-17-002867-7 )
    • Parures des temps anciens, des peuples lointains , Kogan, Paris 1978

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 296.

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