Franz Fischer (archaeologist)

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Franz Richard Fischer (born January 7, 1925 in Pforzheim ; † October 1, 2016 in Bonn ) was a German archaeologist .

Life

Franz Richard Fischer was in 1952 when Wolfgang Kimmig about " late Celtic finds from the Baden Oberland" to Dr. phil. PhD. During the 1950s he was involved in Kurt Bittel's excavations in Hattuscha ( Hittites , Turkey ). He married his fellow student Eva-Maria Bossert , the daughter of the German archaeologist Helmuth Theodor Bossert, in Istanbul in 1957 . Their two children were born in 1958 and 1965. Fischer completed his habilitation in 1962 with a paper on the ceramic finds from the Hittite capital Hattuscha. Fischer was Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Tübingen and until his retirement in 1991 director of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory (today's name: Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages ).

Fischer's research focuses on the pre-Roman Iron Age of southern Central Europe, whereby his methodological approach consists in the combination of archaeological sources with written records . So he often appeared with work on Caesar's Gallic War or the Alpine campaign in 15 BC. BC. He carried out his own excavation projects in the late Celtic oppidum Altenburg-Rheinau on the Upper Rhine.

Fonts (selection)

  • The late Latène Age depot find from Kappel (Saulgau district) (= documents on prehistory and early history from southern Württemberg-Hohenzollern. Issue 1, ZDB -ID 145914-4 ). Silberburg, Stuttgart 1959.
  • The early Bronze Age settlement in the Bleiche near Arbon TG (= writings on the prehistory and early history of Switzerland. Volume 17, ZDB -ID 1105987-4 ). Swiss Society for Prehistory and Protohistory, Basel 1971.
  • The Heidengraben near Grabenstetten. A Celtic oppidum on the Swabian Alb near Urach (= guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Issue 2, ZDB -ID 527337-7 ). Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1971. (2nd, combined edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-8062-0221-4 )
  • Early Celtic princely graves in Central Europe (= Ancient World . Special issue). Raggi-Verlag, Feldmeilen 1982.
  • with Hartwig Zürn : The Celtic Viereckschanze of Tomerdingen (Gem. Dornstadt, Alb-Donau-Kreis): excavation 1958/1959 (= material booklets on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 14). Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-1004-7 .
  • The trade of the Central and Late Latène Period in Central Europe based on archaeological evidence. In: Klaus Düwel , Herbert Jankuhn , Harald Siems , Dieter Timpe (eds.): Studies on trade and traffic in prehistoric and early historical times in Central and Northern Europe. Part 1: Methodological fundamentals and descriptions of trade in prehistoric times and in antiquity. Report on the colloquia of the Commission for the Classical Studies of Central and Northern Europe in the years 1980 to 1983 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, No. 143). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-82426-2 , pp. 285-298.
  • For the historical dating of early Roman military stations. Walenseetürme, Zurich-Lindenhof and Dangstetten . In: Franz Fischer, Rainer Wiegels (eds.): On the Upper Rhine and Upper Danube. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of southwest Germany (= Osnabrück research on antiquity and the reception of antiquity. 10). Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2006, ISBN 3-89646-731-X , pp. 407-414.

literature

  • Opvscvla. Festschrift Franz Fischer (= Tübingen contributions to prehistory. Volume 2, ZDB -ID 2293175-2 ). Stolz, Tübingen 1987 (with list of publications).

swell

  • Deutsches Who's who 2007, Volume 46, p. 328

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Franz Richard Fischer , Schwäbisches Tagblatt , October 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Franz Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2016
Place of death Bonn