Elisabeth Schmid (prehistorian)

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Elisabeth Friedeburg Schmid (born July 17, 1912 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 27, 1994 in Basel ) was a German - Swiss prehistoric , geologist and palaeontologist and the first full professor of prehistory in Switzerland.

Life

Elisabeth Schmid was the fourth child of the school principal Eugen Schmid (1877-1965) and his wife Antonie "Toni" Schmid (1886-1975), née Arnold. Her oldest brother Hans (* 1909) became an engineer, brother Karl Eugen (* 1911) was an internist, the other brother was the painter and restorer Manfred A. Schmid (1911–2009).

At the suggestion of her high school teacher, the geologist Robert Lais , she studied geology, paleontology and prehistory at the University of Freiburg . After completing her doctorate in 1937 with Wolfgang Soergel on the subject of “ Variation-statistical studies on the dentition of Pleistocene and recent leopards and other felids ”, she went to Bonn in 1938 and then to Walter von Stokar in Cologne . In 1944 she was drafted into the Volkssturm with Lais and Georg Kraft . After her death, she temporarily took over the post of head of the State Office for Prehistory and Protohistory in South Baden. She completed her habilitation in Freiburg in 1949 and in Basel in 1951 with the subject of " Contributions to the Clarification of the Function of Scientific Investigations in Prehistory " and then taught at both universities. Extensive research followed, including excavations at the Isteiner Klotz and Mont Ventoux , particularly on the question of flint extraction in prehistoric times. Together with Rudolf Laur-Belart , she set up a laboratory for sediment and snail analysis as well as osteology .

In 1955 she represented the vacant chair in Freiburg, but Edward Sangmeister was appointed as his successor . In 1960 she took on an extraordinary professorship in Basel, where she was appointed full professor and head of the seminar for prehistory and early history in 1972. From 1961 to 1969 she was involved in excavations in Augusta Raurica , here mainly to research animal bones. In 1975/76 she was the first female dean of the University of Basel. She was a pioneer in paleobiology and paleozoology , and in 1980 she set up an osteology fund. After her retirement in 1982, she continued to research the Hohlenstein lion man .

Schmid remained single. It was naturalized in Basel in 1968. Your estate is in the Basel-Stadt State Archives .

Publications (selection)

  • Animal bone finds as a key to the history of the economy, nutrition, handicraft and social life in Augusta Raurica . August 1989.
  • Together with Susanne Haas: Prehistory of Europe. Guide to the exhibition. Museum of Ethnology and Swiss Museum of Folklore, Basel, around 1984.
  • Atlas of animal bones. For prehistorians, archaeologists and quaternary geologists . Amsterdam 1972
  • Speleology and sediment analysis. A contribution to the dating of the Alpine Paleolithic . Basel 1958.
  • From the sediments of the salt furnace cave . Vienna 1957.
  • Contributions to the clarification of the function of scientific investigations in prehistoric studies . OO 1949.
  • About a leopard pound from Taubach . Stuttgart 1949.
  • Variational studies on the dentition of Pleistocene and recent leopards and other felids . Leipzig 1940 (dissertation).

literature

  • Ludwig Berger , Georg Bienz, Jürg Ewald, Marcel Joos (eds.): Festschrift Elisabeth Schmid on her 65th birthday. Geographical-Ethnological Society, Basel 1977.
  • Basler Chronik, entry March 27, 1994
  • Andrea Bräuning:  Schmid, Elisabeth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 145 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Andrea Bräuning: Professors in Prehistory and Early History. Gender and archeology . In: Archäologische Informations 35 (2012), pp. 23–37. doi: 10.11588 / ai.2012.0.10040
  • Andrea Bräuning: Against forgetting. Professors in archeology (prehistory and early history). In: Alps, Cult and Iron Age. Festschrift for Amei Lang. Publishing house Marie Leihdorf, Rahden / Westf. 2009, pp. 7–9 (with picture) (full text) (PDF; 1.7 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Elisabeth Schmid (82), emeritus. Professor of Early Prehistory on ... . June 9, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Elisabeth Friedeburg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric, geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1994
Place of death Basel