Friedrich Winkelmann

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Friedrich Winkelmann on a board in the Eichstätter Museum of Prehistory and Early History
Friedrich Winkelmann (right) with Karl Dörr (around 1900)

Friedrich Theodor Wilhelm Winkelmann (born December 24, 1852 in Öhringen , † June 22, 1934 in Eichstätt ) was a German prehistoric , provincial Roman archaeologist and route commissioner of the Reich Limes Commission , landowner and local politician.

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Winkelmann, who had been enthusiastic about Roman antiquity since his school days , graduated from high school in 1870 as the second best in the state of Württemberg. He then studied - first in Tübingen , from 1871 in Strasbourg - initially philosophy , later medicine . Due to an eye disease, he had to end his studies soon after the Physikum . Instead he learned agriculture. In 1882 he settled as a landowner in Pfünz, a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Walting . From 1884, he financed the first excavations of the Pfünz cohort fort, a border fort of the Raetian Limes, from his own resources . From 1892 to 1902 he was the local route commissioner of the Reich Limes Commission and, in addition to Pfünz, also carried out excavations in the Böhming fort . After the commission's activities had ended, he carried out further investigations at a wide variety of prehistoric and protohistoric sites in the Eichstätt area until his death .

In 1907 he was awarded the order of the Commission for Research into the Prehistory of Bavaria, and in 1910 an honorary doctorate from the University of Munich . In 1912 he became the curator of the archaeological collection of the Eichstätt Historical Society, to which he had belonged since it was founded in 1886. In addition to his contributions to the Limeswerk, he published other writings on Bavarian prehistory and early history .

Fonts

  • The Pfuenz Castle . In Ernst Fabricius , Felix Hettner , Oscar von Sarwey (ed.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches Department B, Volume 7, Fort No. 73, Petters, Heidelberg / Berlin / Leipzig 1901.
  • Boehming Castle . In Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey (ed.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches Department B, Volume 7, Fort No. 73a, Petters, Heidelberg / Berlin / Leipzig 1907.
  • Eichstatt. Collection of the historical association . ( Catalogs of West and South German antiquity collections, vol. 6). Baer, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • The Rhaetian Limes. From Kipfenberg to the Danube . (After the investigations of the track commissioner Joseph Fink and after own photos edited by Friedrich Winkelmann and Ernst Fabricius). In Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner, Oscar von Sarwey (ed.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches Department A, Volume 7. Petters, Heidelberg 1933.

literature

  • Goeßler: Dr. Greetings from Friedrich Winkelmann! In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of the people and homeland. 1932, pp. 548-549.

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SURNAME Winkelmann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkelmann, Friedrich Theodor Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, historian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhringen
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1934
Place of death Eichstatt