Ernst Adalbert Voretzsch

Ernst Adalbert Voretzsch (born June 27, 1908 in Hamburg ; † June 24, 1991 in Erlangen ) was a German Christian archaeologist and church historian .

Life

His father was the naval staff doctor Oskar Voretzsch (1875-1916), who died in the First World War ; his mother's name was Elisabeth geb. Schulze. After attending grammar school in Altenburg, Adalbert Voretzsch studied Protestant theology and philology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1929/30 he was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . 1930/31 he studied at the University of Leipzig , 1931/32 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , 1932/33 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and from 1935 to 1941 again in Berlin to study religious studies , oriental studies and Turn to archeology . He wrote for the magazine Die Kunst im Third Reich and became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 . From 1938 he was a research assistant at the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin . From 1940 to 1942 he held an assistant position at the seminar for Christian archeology and church art at the University of Berlin. During the war he was entrusted with the care of “seized” works of art from France because of pulmonary tuberculosis . In 1944 he was the main operational leader at the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). At Colmberg Castle in Middle Franconia , which was then owned by his uncle Ernst Arthur Voretzsch , he deposited 25 truckloads of looted cultural assets , including icons from Pskow and Novgorod . The US occupying power restituted in 1946 1.178 icons and paintings of the Soviet Union .

In March 1945 Voretzsch was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1947 he was a research assistant at the Church History Department of the University of Tübingen with Hanns Rückert . There he was also awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. He began with a habilitation thesis on early Christian baptisteries , which he unsuccessfully submitted in 1953 in Tübingen. 1952/53 he was assistant at the theological faculty of the Waldensians in Rome , 1953/54 at the manuscript department of the university library of Tübingen . After having been at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome from 1954 to 1957 , he completed his habilitation in 1958 with Klaus Wessel at the University of Greifswald . In 1961, the University of Erlangen appointed him to the chair for Christian archeology and Christian art history at the theological faculty as the successor to Fritz Fichtner . There he was dean in 1962/63 . After retiring in 1973, he stayed in Erlangen and continued to work in his research area, the acoustics of sacred buildings . He died shortly before his 83rd birthday.

He was married to Renate geb. von Schaewen (1945) and Hannelore geb. Helb (1962).

literature

• Klaus Raschzok , Reiner Sörries (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Professor Dr. phil. Dr. theol. Ernst Adalbert Voretzsch: presented on his 70th birthday on June 27, 1978 by the students of the Chair for Christian Archeology and Art History at the Department of Protestant Theology of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . Schwabach 1978.
• Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006, No. 823.
• Stefan Heid : Voretzsch, Ernst Adalbert. In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Volume 2: K - Z. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , pp. 1299-1300.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142/816.
2. ↑ Ulrike Hartung: Abducted and Lost - a documentation of German, Soviet and American files on Nazi art theft in the Soviet Union (1941-1948) . Temmen, Bremen 2000 ISBN 3-86108-336-1 , p. 33; 267; 297.
3. ↑ Dissertation: Egyptian fabrics of late antiquity (unpublished). The work had originally been submitted to the theological faculty, but again in 1942 to the philosophical faculty.
4. ^ Theological dissertation: Contributions to the study of Mani's theory of light (unpublished).
5. ^ Habilitation thesis: The Baptistery of San Giovanni in Fonte in Naples , unpublished.