Erika Nagel (prehistorian)

Erika Nagel (born December 31, 1943 in Ludwigslust as Erika Beltz ; † July 24, 1999 in Schwerin ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

Erika Beltz was born in 1943 as the eighth of eleven children of a farming family in Ludwigslust. After graduating from high school , she worked for two years as an intern with Ewald Schuldt at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Schwerin . Subsequently, in 1964, she began studying prehistory and early history, which she completed in 1968 with the thesis on the problem of the southern extension of the Mecklenburg individual grave culture between the Elbe and the Oder, with special attention to the ceramic finds. successfully completed. She then returned to the museum in Schwerin, where she worked as a library administrator and editor. In the 1960s to 1980s, she led numerous excavations at Neolithic large stone graves and settlements. In 1971 Beltz married the geologist Detlev Nagel. In 1984 she received her doctorate on the subject of the phenomena of bulb amphora culture in the north of the GDR. After 1990 she worked as an editor at the newly founded State Office for Land Monument Preservation . Erika Nagel died on July 24, 1999 after a long illness.

Fonts

• On the problem of the southern extension of the Mecklenburg individual grave culture between the Elbe and Oder with special consideration of the ceramic finds. 1968
• The phenomena of spherical amphora culture in the north of the GDR. 1985

literature

• Dr. phil. Erika Nagel. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. Volume 114, 1999, pp. 3-4.
• Ulrich Schoknecht : Erika Nagel, Schwerin. In: Archaeological reports from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 6, 1999, pp. 251-252.

Web links

• Literature by Erika Nagel in the catalog of the German National Library