Ferdinand Birkner

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Ferdinand Birkner (born December 28, 1868 in Munich ; † December 29, 1944 there ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1888, he studied Catholic theology at the University of Munich . He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1893. In 1900 he became a subdeacon of the Hofkirche St. Michael in Munich, and in 1910 he was removed from this office at his own request.

From 1893 he studied anthropology at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1894 under Johannes Ranke . In 1897 he passed the teaching examination. From 1898 he was assistant to Johannes Ranke at the anthropological-prehistoric state collection. He completed his habilitation in anthropology and prehistory in 1904 and became an associate professor in 1909 . From 1914 Birkner headed the Commission for Speleology in Bavaria, and from 1917 the prehistoric department of the anthropological-prehistoric state collection, which in 1927 with Birkner as director (since 1930 with the title of director) became the independent prehistoric state collection . He retired in 1934 and still teaches at the university until 1936. During this time he met u. a. with Hugo Obermaier and Paul Wernert .

From 1912 to 1913 he took part in the excavations in the Klausenhöhle near Essing .

Birkner wrote numerous scientific essays on Old , Middle and Neolithic topics. The terms Pollinger Group and Oberlauterbacher Group are attributed to him (1936).

In 1907 he was elected as a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions to the anthropology of the hand . Dissertation Munich 1895.
  • Contributions to the racial anatomy of the Chinese . In: Archive for Anthropology 4, 1905, pp. 1-40 (habilitation thesis).
  • The races and peoples of mankind (= man of all times. Nature and culture of the peoples of all earth. Vol. 2). Allgemeine Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin et al. 1913.
  • The ice age settlement of the Schulerloch and the lower Altmühltal (= treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical-physical class. Volume 28, treatise 5). Publishing house of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1916.
  • The prehistoric times of Bavaria. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1936.

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p.?.
  • 100 years of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Volume 1, Pustet, Regensburg 2008, p. 335.

Remarks

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. 1887/1888, p.?.
  2. ↑ Thomas Forstner: Priests in Times of Change. Identity and environment of the Catholic parish clergy in Upper Bavaria 1918 to 1945. Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-55040-3 , p. 188, note 458.
  3. ^ Member entry by Ferdinand Birkner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Birkner, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1944
Place of death Munich