Emma Pressmar
Emma Karoline Pressmar (born May 13, 1909 in Ulm ; † January 9, 2000 there ) was a German prehistorian .
Life
Emma Pressmar studied natural sciences in Tübingen , Berlin and Munich . There she received her doctorate in 1937 under Ferdinand Birkner with a thesis on the prehistory and early history of the Ulmer Winkel. This was a woman's first dissertation on a prehistoric topic in Bavaria.
In the Second World War she entered the school service and worked as a high school teacher in Ulm until 1974. In addition, she made important contributions to the prehistory of the Neu-Ulm hinterland through excavations as an honorary director of the prehistoric collection of the Neu-Ulm local history museum and district home nurse (1967-1984) of the Neu-Ulm district . In 1975/76 she was able to do an emergency excavation at the Elchinger Autobahnkreuz u. a. prove a pottery kiln from the Urnfield period.
Emma Pressmar donated part of her extensive ring collection to the Prehistoric Collection in Munich , and in 1991 she donated 250 rings from 38 countries to the Ulm Museum . In addition to various other awards, Emma Pressmar received the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1986 . As a result of a foundation to India , a kindergarten in Bangalore bears her name.
Publications (selection)
- Prehistory and early history of the Ulmer Winkel on a pedological basis. Munich, Oldenbourg publishing house, 1938 (dissertation)
- Elchinger Cross. District of Neu-Ulm, settlement excavation with urnfield-era pottery kiln. Publisher Michael Laßleben, 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5119-9
- Indian rings. Frankfurt / M., Insel Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-458-14031-X
- Rings talk: The Emma Pressmar collection in the Ulm Museum. Ulm, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991, ISBN 3-88294-171-5
literature
- Gerhard Kaiser: I throw the seed to all winds. The educator and prehistorian Emma Pressmar . Ulm, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-88294-206-1
- Gisela Zahlhaas: Dr. Emma Pressmar on her 90th birthday: a greeting to the jubilarian. In: Messages from the Friends of the Bavarian Pre- and Early History / Friends of the Bavarian Pre- and Early History. Munich. 90 (1999), pp. 1-5
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 320 f .
Web links
- Literature by and about Emma Pressmar in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pressmar, Emma |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pressmar, Emma Karoline (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prehistoric woman |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2000 |
Place of death | Ulm |