Friedrich Behn

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Friedrich Behn (born February 14, 1883 in Neustrelitz ; † August 20, 1970 in Mainz ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

Behn, son of the senior postal secretary Friedrich Behn and his wife Maria Heister, visited the grammar school in Neustrelitz for a while , but passed the Abitur in 1901 in Hamburg , where his father had been transferred in 1895. In the same year he began studying classical archeology as well as theology and music at the University of Rostock , which he continued from the summer semester of 1902 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In October 1902 he returned to Rostock, but left the university in the summer semester of 1903 for Heidelberg. During his studies he became a member of the Academic-Musical Association Stauffia Heidelberg (in the Sondershäuser Association ). After returning to Rostock in October 1903, Behn finally finished his studies in 1906 with a doctorate on the subject of The Ficoronische Cista with Carl Watzinger . After working as a private tutor in Hamburg, he came to the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) in Mainz as a volunteer in 1909 , where he initially worked as a research assistant, then as a research assistant, assistant director and curator . Shortly before the First World War, Behn completed his habilitation in 1914 at the Technical University of Darmstadt in the subject of antiquity and monument preservation .

Memorial plaque for Friedrich Behn at Lorsch Abbey
Grave site in Goslar

After serving in a surveying department during the war, he received the title of professor at the TH Darmstadt on April 1, 1920. From 1922 he was assigned the task of preserving monuments at the RGZM and Behn was responsible for the preservation of monuments in southern Hesse until 1945 , initially in Starkenburg and finally in Rheinhessen . In this function, he and Karl Nahrgang carried out excavations in Hagen Castle (Dreieichenhain) in 1924 and 1925 . In 1926 he became an associate professor in Darmstadt. Excavations in the Lorsch Monastery followed from 1927 to 1937 - pioneering work in the field of archeology of the Middle Ages . From 1931 to 1933 he also carried out excavations with Otto Müller in the area of ​​the Einhards basilica in Steinbach near Michelstadt .

Behn already represented ethnic views in the 1920s. Works such as "Old Germanic Art", which appeared in three editions between 1927 and 1936, wanted to "bring the long-buried sources of Germanic art with a distinctly ethnic character" to flow again.

After his retirement in 1948, he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he became a full professor in 1950 and held the chair there until his retirement in 1954, but temporarily held it until 1963. From 1949 to 1957 he was also director of the Leipzig Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the university. In 1949 Behn became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , from 1963 he was a corresponding member.

In 1963 he returned to Mainz, where he died on August 15, 1970. Behn had been married to Elisabeth Ristenpart since 1922. Behn and his wife are buried in the mausoleum of the Lattmann family in the old cemetery in Goslar.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The ficoronian cista. Archaeological study. Teubner, Leipzig 1907, (dissertation, Rostock, University, 1907).
  • Music among the civilized peoples of antiquity. Lecture given on December 14, 1911 at the Mainz Antiquities Association. von Zabern, Mainz 1912.
  • Moritz Hoernes : Iron Age (= culture of primeval times. Vol. 3 = Göschen Collection . Vol. 566). 3. Edition. Revised by Friedrich Behn. de Gruyter, Berlin 1912.
  • Moritz Hoernes: The prehistory of mankind (= Göschen Collection. Vol. 42). 5th, completely revised edition. Revised by Friedrich Behn. de Gruyter, Berlin 1920.
  • Moritz Hoernes: Bronze Age (= culture of prehistoric times. Vol. 2 = Göschen Collection. Vol. 565). 3. Edition. Revised by Friedrich Behn. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1922.
  • Starkenburg prehistory. A home book (= Starkenburg in his past. 1, ZDB -ID 1490054-3 ). Schneider, Mainz 1925.
  • Old Germanic art. Lehmann, Munich 1927.
  • The Mithras sanctuary in Dieburg (= Roman-Germanic research. 1, ISSN  0176-5337 ). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1928.
  • Old Norse life 3000 years ago. Cultural images from Germanic prehistoric times with 40 panels , Munich: Lehmann 1935.
  • Lorsch Monastery (= Starkenburg in its past. 7). Schneider, Mainz 1936.
  • Prehistory and early history. Basics - tasks - methods. Eberhard Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, 1948.
  • Prehistoric mask usage (= reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 102, No. 1, ISSN  0138-5151 ). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1955.
  • Prehistoric world. Cotta, Stuttgart 1962.
  • Romans and Great Migration. Central Europe between Augustus and Charlemagne. Cotta, Stuttgart 1963.
  • The Bronze Age in Northern Europe. Portrait of a prehistoric high culture (= Urban Books. 102, ZDB -ID 995319-X ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1967.

literature

  • Andreas Göller: 100 years ago - Friedrich Behn: a prehistoric for the TH Darmstadt. In: high 3. Vol. 10, April 2014, p. 25, ( digitized version ).
  • Lothar Mertens : The lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 123 f.
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Higher trade school, technical school, polytechnic school, technical college. Volume 1: Short biographies 1836-1945 (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. 3, ZDB -ID 194415-0 ). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1977, p. 21.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of death according to other sources: August 15, 1970
  2. ^ First matriculation of Friedrich Behr SS 1901, No. 3 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Second matriculation of Friedrich Behr WS 1902/1903, No. 25 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. 1937, ZDB -ID 152313-2 , p. 103.
  5. ^ Third matriculation of Friedrich Behr WS 1903/1904, No. 20 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  6. ^ Friedrich Behn: The square tower of Dreieichenhain Castle. In: Reports of the voluntary working group for the promotion of local research. 5, 1926, ZDB ID 987674-1 , pp. 92-98. Cf. also Friedrich Behn: The castle of Dreieichenhain after the excavations of 1924 and 1925. In: Archives for Hessian history and antiquity. NF 16, 1930, ISSN  0066-636X , pp. 276-293.
personal data
SURNAME Behn, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1970
Place of death Mainz