Gerd Weisgerber

Gerd Weisgerber (born January 24, 1938 in Saarwellingen ; † June 22, 2010 in Recklinghausen ) was a German mining archaeologist .

Life

After attending school in Saarlouis , he was trained as a teacher at the University of Education in Saarbrücken from 1957 to 1959 and then started teaching. After being appointed head teacher, he went on excursions and small excavations in the Hunsrück with his students . The early La Tène warrior grave in Losheim , which was found there, was later discussed further in the specialist literature. Probably at the suggestion of the Saarland state curator Reinhard Schindler , Weisgerber began to study prehistory and early history , economic and social history and geography at Saarland University in 1961 . Rolf Hachmann was his main teacher, with him he did his doctorate in 1970 on the Roman spring shrine of Hochscheid in the Hunsrück. Shortly before, he had already been appointed Hachmann's assistant and was able to leave school for good. In addition to smaller excavations in the immediate vicinity, he was entrusted with the organization of the excavations on the settlement hill Kāmid el-Lōz in Lebanon .

On April 1, 1973, he became a research assistant for mining archeology at the German Mining Museum in Bochum , making him the world's first full-time mining archaeologist. At the request of the director at the time, Hans Günter Conrad (1966–1987), Reinhard Schindler, who had worked with the museum during the excavations at the Emilianus tunnel , a Roman copper mine in Wallerfangen , suggested it. Weisgerber's experience in provincial Roman archeology and archeology of the Orient fit in well with the museum's project plans. After his retirement on March 31, 2000, he made a significant contribution to the development of this branch of archeology. From 1984 he was also the museum's deputy director. Weisgerber was an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg .

Publications (selection)

• The Gallo-Roman spring sanctuary of Hochscheid (Kr. Bernkastel-Wittlich). His type and cult . Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1970
• The pilgrim sanctuary of Apollo and Sirona from Hochscheid in the Hunsrück Bonn: Habelt 1975
• as editor and editor: Five thousand years of flint mining. The search for the steel of the Stone Age. Exhibition at the German Mining Museum in Bochum from October 24, 1980 to January 31, 1981 . (Publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum; 22) Bochum 1980 ISBN 3-921533-20-1 and other editions
• Mining archeology. Basics of a systematic mining science for prehistory and early history and antiquity, part 1 . In: Der Anschnitt 41 (1989), 6, pp. 190-204
• with Günther A. Wagner: silver, lead and gold on Sifnos; prehistoric and ancient metal production Bochum 1985, ISBN 3-921533-30-9
• with Gert Goldenberg: Alpenkupfer - Rame delle Alpi . Bochum: Dt. Mining Museum 2004, ISBN 3-937203-05-2
• Paul Yule , Gerd Weisgerber: The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Ḥajar, Sultanate of Oman . In: Contributions to general and comparative archeology 18, 1998, 183–241, ISBN 3-8053-2518-5 ( digitized as PDF from Propylaeum-DOK )

literature

• Thomas Stöllner (Ed.): Man and mining. Studies in honor of Gerd Weisgerber on occasion of his 65th birthday; People and mining . Bochum 2003 ISBN 3-921533-98-8
• Rainer Slotta and Thomas Stöllner: In memory of Prof. Dr. Gerd Weisgerber. January 24, 1938 - June 22, 2010 in "Der Anschnitt" 62.4 (2010)
• Heiko Steuer : Obituary: Prof. Dr. Gerd Weisgerber January 24 , 1938-22 June 2010 , in: Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 38, 2010 (2011), pp. 221–224
• Paul Yule: In memoriam Dr Gerd Weisgerber , in: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (PSAS) 41, 2011, 1–2 ISSN  0308-8421 ( digitized as PDF at Propylaeum-DOK )

Remarks

1. ↑ 1973-1977 - The first research position for mining archeology. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 . 

Web links

• Works by and about Gerd Weisgerber  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Gerd Weisgerber in RI-Opac