Eduard Brenner (archaeologist)

Eduard Brenner (born January 29, 1877 in Wiesbaden ; † April 3, 1915 in the Carpathian Mountains ) was a German prehistorian .

Eduard Brenner attended the Realgymnasium in Wiesbaden and studied from 1898 in Freiburg, Marburg and Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1908 under Johannes Hoops . In 1907/08 he was assistant at the Historical Museum in Frankfurt , 1908/09 at the Landesmuseum Nassauischer Antiquities in Wiesbaden and from 1909 to 1911 at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz . On September 1, 1911, he became director of the State Museum of Nassau Antiquities in Wiesbaden and was busy preparing the new building for the museum.

He fell as a lieutenant and company leader in the First World War .

literature

• Gustaf Kossinna : Eduard Brenner. In: Mannus . 7, 1915, pp. 211-212.
• Emil Ritterling : Eduard Brenner. In: Nassauische Heimatblätter. Vol. 19, No. 1/2, 1915, pp. 50-54.
• Karl Schumacher : Eduard Brenner. In: Prehistoric Journal . Vol. 6, No. 3/4, 1914, p. 370.

Publications (selection)

• The Old English Junius Psalter. The interlinear gloss of the manuscript Junius 27 of the Bodleiana at Oxford (= Anglistische Forschungen. 23, ISSN  0179-1389 ). Winter, Heidelberg 1908 (also Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1908; digitized version ).