Edward Sangmeister

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Edward Sangmeister (born March 26, 1916 in Ettlingen ; † January 18, 2016 Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

In 1926 his family moved to Marburg . At the age of seventeen he completed his Abitur there and in autumn 1934, after six months in the Reich Labor Service , he began his studies in archeology . There, along with others, it was the teaching of Gero von Merhart that shaped him. Edward Sangmeister received his doctorate on 23 September 1939 after studying prehistory in 1939 at the University of Marburg under Gero von Merhart . The Second World War brought Sangmeister first to Norway , then u. a. to the Soviet Union (USSR) , where he was injured twice. In 1946 he was released from a British military hospital in Hamburg . After that he worked as a private teacher, but in his free time he studied incessantly at the seminar in Marburg and prepared his first fundamental essay on the "character of the ceramic settlement".

In 1949 Sangmeister became Wolfgang Dehn's assistant at the Marburg Institute. After his military service he was also an assistant there from 1950 and received his habilitation in 1954 . From 1954 to 1956 he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid. In 1956 he was appointed to the newly created chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Freiburg , initially as associate professor , and since 1959, after a call to Kiel was rejected, as professor. He taught there until his retirement in 1981. From 1964 to 1973 he led the excavations in Zambujal at the invitation of Hermanfrid Schubart .

His main research interests were the Neolithic cultures in southern Germany, the bell beaker phenomenon and the studies of the beginnings of metallurgy in the early metal ages , especially the Copper Age , and he also dealt with the methods of prehistoric archeology, the discussion of which is always an important part of his Was teaching at the university.

Publications

Monographs

  • Findings and course of the Neolithic in the Hessian heartland , Marburg 1943 (= dissertation)
  • The Neolithic Age in North Main Hesse , Volume 1, Heimatschollen-Verlag, Melsungen 1951.
  • with Siegfried Junghans , Manfred Schröder: Copper and Bronze in the Early Metal Age of Europe , Mann, Berlin 1968.
  • with Hermanfrid Schubart: Zambujal. The excavations from 1964 to 1973. With contributions from Av d.Driesch u. J. Boessneck, M. Hopf, G. Sperl, B. Kleinmann . Madrid Contributions Vol. 5, Zambujal Part 1. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1981. ISBN 3-8053-0055-7 .
  • with María de la Cruz Jiménez Gómez: Zambujal. Copper finds from the excavations from 1964 to 1973; Los Amuletos de las Campañas 1964 hasta 1973 . Madrid contributions 5, Zambujal part 3. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1995. ISBN 3-8053-1571-6 .
  • On the importance of prehistoric cultural boundaries. Reprints from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, original article published in: Hans Fenske (Ed.): Historia integra: Festschrift for Erich Hassinger on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 977, pp. 9–31 [1]

Selected essays

  • To some Early Bronze Age finds from Portugal . In: Arqueologia e História 8ª série 8, Lisboa 1958. pp. 45-49.
  • Socio-economic aspects of the bell beaker culture . In: Ilse Schwidetzky (Ed.), Contributions to Prehistoric Anthropology and Prehistory of Europe, Kurt Gerhardt on his 60th birthday = Homo, Journal for Comparative Research on Humans 23, Issue 1–2. Musterschmidt publishing house, Göttingen, Zurich, Frankfurt 1972. pp. 188-203.
  • The relationship between the bell beaker culture and the indigenous cultures of the Iberian Peninsula . In: Glockenbechersymposium Oberried 1974. Bussum 1976, pp. 423-438.
  • The early Neolithic of Southwest Germany . In: Building blocks for the historical regional studies of Baden-Württemberg, Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Stuttgart 1979, pp. 27-48.
  • Corded ceramics in southwest Germany . In: Annual Journal for Central German Prehistory 64, Halle 1981, pp. 117–141.
  • Thinking about your own actions in prehistoric archeology . In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter Vol. 140, 1988, pp. 77–90 (autobiographical, full text ; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  • History of archaeological research in Baden , in: Edward Sangmeister (Ed.): Zeitspuren , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-929140-01-2 , pp. 8-20.
  • see also literature on Zambujal .

literature

  • Hubert Fehr: Prehistory and early history , in: Eckhard Wirbelauer (Ed.): The Freiburg Faculty of Philosophy 1920–1960. Members - structures - networks . (Freiburg contributions to the history of science and universities. New series, vol. 1). Alber, Freiburg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-495-49604-6 , pp. 532-556. 990 (with all documents)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward Sangmeister's obituary notice. In: badische-zeitung.de. Badische Zeitung , January 25, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sangmaster, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ettlingen , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2016
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau