Georg Kossack

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Georg Kossack (born June 25, 1923 in Neuruppin ; † October 17, 2004 in Prien am Chiemsee ) was an important German prehistory researcher .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kossack took part in the war against the Soviet Union , from which he returned seriously wounded. Before the end of the war he studied in Berlin, Halle (Saale), Freiburg im Breisgau and Marburg and received his doctorate in 1948 at the University of Marburg on the subject of "Symbols of the Urnfields and Hallstatt Periods of Central Europe" with Gero von Merhart (published in 1954) and completed his habilitation in Munich in 1955 about research during the Hallstatt period in southern Bavaria. His research focuses on the Bronze and Pre-Roman Iron Ages as well as in the area of settlement archeology . They included the Central , Southeastern and Eastern European area as well as the Soviet Union .

In 1959 he was appointed to the chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Kiel, in 1975 he accepted a position as successor to Joachim Werner in Munich , where he also worked after his retirement in 1988.

After the Second World War , Kossack had a strong influence on the content and institutional realignment of prehistory and early history. Many of his earlier doctoral and post- doctoral students , such as B. Hermann Parzinger , hold key positions in German prehistory research today. He played a key role in the creation of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute .

He has received several awards for his work. Among other things, he was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute, a corresponding member of the Finnish Antiquities Society and the British Academy and a foreign member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1973 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1979 he became a full member of this institution.

Kossack's scientific estate is located at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt am Main and has been the subject of a development project funded by the German Research Foundation since 2008 . The project is coordinated at the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and aims to make the estate inventory accessible to a broad specialist audience in the Kalliope and Arachne databases .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on the symbols of the Urnfield and Hallstatt Period in Central Europe . Berlin 1954.
  • Southern Bavaria during the Hallstatt period. Roman-German. Forsch. 24, Berlin 1959.
  • with Rolf Hachmann , Hans Kuhn : Peoples between Teutons and Celts. Written sources, finds and names on the history of northern West Germany around the birth of Christ . Neumünster 1962.
  • Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Mecklenburg. A research report. Offa 23, 1966, 7-72.
  • Grave fields from the Hallstatt period on the Main and the Franconian Saale. Materialh. Bayer. Prehistory A 24. Kallmünz / Opf. 1970.
  • State tombs. Studies in prehistoric and early historical archeology. Festschrift for J. Werner on his 65th birthday. Munich contribution. Early History, Supplementary Volume 1, 1974, 3-33.
  • with K.-E. Behre, P. Schmid (Ed.): Archaeological and scientific research on rural and early urban settlements in the German coastal area from the 5th century BC. BC to 11th century AD 1: Rural settlements. Weinheim 1984.
  • Villages in Northern Germania mainly from the Roman Empire. Location, map, structure and community structure. Dep. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Phil.-Hist. Class NF 112, Munich 1997.
  • Prehistoric archeology in Germany in the change of the intellectual and political situation . Meeting area Bay. Akad. Wiss. 4, Munich 1999.

Supervised dissertations and habilitations (selection)

  • Wilhelm Albert von Brunn , Central German hoard finds from the younger Bronze Age . Roman-Germanic research 29 (Berlin 1968).
  • Friedrich Laux , The Bronze Age in the Lüneburg Heath. Publications of the prehistoric collections of the Landesmuseum zu Hannover 18 (Hildesheim 1971).
  • O. Harck, northeast Lower Saxony from the beginning of the younger Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony 7 (Hildesheim 1972).
  • M. Menke, The Younger Bronze Age in Holstein. Topographical-chronological studies. Offa books 25 (Neumünster 1972).
  • Joachim Reichstein , The cross-shaped fibula. On the chronology of the late Roman Empire and the Great Migration Period in Scandinavia, on the continent and in England. Offa books 34 (Neumünster 1975).
  • Rupert Gebhard , The glass jewelry from the oppidum of Manching. The excavations in Manching 11 (Wiesbaden 1989).
  • Wolfram Schier , The Prehistoric Settlement in Southern Main Franconia. Archaeological-geographical studies on the genesis of an old settlement landscape. Material booklets for Bavarian prehistory 60 (Kallmünz 1990).
  • Hermann Parzinger , studies on the chronology and cultural history of the Neolithic, Copper and Early Bronze Ages between the Carpathian Mountains and the Middle Taurus. Roman-Germanic research 52 (Mainz 1993).
  • Thomas Völling , Studies on fibula forms of the younger pre-Roman Iron Age and the oldest Roman Imperial Era. Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 75, 1994, 147–282.
  • Peter Ettel , grave fields of the Hallstatt period in Upper Franconia. Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory 72 (Kallmünz 1996).
  • Ch. Huth, Western European Hoards of the Late Bronze Age. Find picture and function. Regensburg Contributions to Prehistoric Archeology 3 (Regensburg 1997).
  • A. Lang, Kundl's burial ground in the Tyrolean Inn Valley. Studies on the pre-Roman Iron Age in the central Alps. Early historical and Roman provincial archeology. Materials and Research 2 (Rahden 1998).
  • Wolfgang David , studies on ornamentation and dating of the Bronze Age deposit group Hajdúsámson-Apa-Ighiel-Zajta . Bibliotheca Musei Apulensis 18 ( Karlsburg / Weissenburg 2002).

Further biographical information

  • Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology (ed.): Georg Kossack: June 25, 1923 - October 17, 2004: Commemoration of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the commission on the comparative archeology of Roman Alpine and Danube countries of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Rahden 2005.
  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic manual of the prehistory and early history of Europe . Vol. 3: Addenda (edited from the estate of Jiří Hrala ). Prague 1998, p. 184.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kossack, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistory researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2004
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee