Elisabeth Ruttkay

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Grave at the cemetery of the fire hall in Simmering

Elisabeth Ruttkay (born Kiss ; born June 18, 1926 in Pécs , Hungary , † February 25, 2009 in Vienna ) was an Austro - Hungarian archaeologist. She made great contributions to research into the Younger Stone Age and the Bronze Age in Austria, for which she was awarded the Lower Austria Promotion Prize in 1987 and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art in 1988 .

In 1944 she passed the Matura . In 1955 she passed the teaching examination and received her diploma from the University of Budapest . In 1956 she fled to Austria, where she lived from then on and received Austrian citizenship in 1961. From 1962 to 1968 she worked at the Burgenland State Museum in Eisenstadt , and from 1968 to 1992 at the prehistoric department of the Natural History Museum Vienna . In 1979 she received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna .

In 1983, after the death of her first husband, she married the philosopher Tibor Hanák , one of the chief editors of Radio Free Europe . Elisabeth Ruttkay had been retired since 1992. In 2006 the Society for Prehistory and Protohistory dedicated a commemorative publication to her on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

Elisabeth Ruttkay was mainly concerned with the Neolithic Age in Eastern Austria. She tried to describe or discuss several cultural stages of the Neolithic Age, namely the Bisamberg-Oberpullendorf group , the Mödling-Zöbing group , the Leithaprodersdorf group and the Herzogenburg group . In 1981 she also gave a name to a cultural stage of the Bronze Age ( Attersee Group ).

Ruttkay was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Neolithic in Lower Austria (= research reports on prehistory and early history. 12, ZDB -ID 988092-6 ). Austrian Working Group on Prehistory and Protohistory, Vienna 1983.
  • Typology and chronology of the Mondsee Group. In: Dietmar Straub (Red.): The Mondseeland. History and culture. Exhibition by the Province of Upper Austria, May 8th - October 26th 1981, church and former Mondsee Monastery (Mondsee Local History Museum). Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1981, ISBN 3-85214-306-3 , pp. 269-294.
  • with Eva Lenneis , Christine Neugebauer-Maresch : New Stone Age in Eastern Austria (1995, Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus)

In addition to many scientific publications, Elisabeth Ruttkay made significant contributions to the popular science books Germany in the Stone Age and Germany in the Bronze Age by the Mainz science author Ernst Probst .

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personal data
SURNAME Ruttkay, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanak, Elisabeth; Kiss, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2009
Place of death Vienna