Gerhard Cheap

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Gerhard Cheap on May 1, 2004 on the grounds of the Hubertusburg Palace in Wermsdorf at a meeting of the German Castle Association

Gerhard Billig (born May 20, 1927 in Dresden ; † April 24, 2019 ibid) was a German prehistoric archaeologist and medievalist .

Life

Gerhard Cheap attended elementary and high school. The school attendance was interrupted from 1944 to 1946 by his service as an air force helper , in the Reich Labor Service , as a war participant and by British captivity. In December 1946 cheap took his Abitur and then took a course to become a new teacher . As such he worked from 1947 and joined the SED in the same year . A year later, Billig began studying pedagogy , folklore , German and prehistory at the Dresden University of Technology . He went to the University of Leipzig in 1950 and passed the state examination there in 1951 . In the same year he became a teacher, but continued his studies as an external student.

From 1952, Billig worked as a research assistant for prehistory and early history at the Vogtland District Museum in Plauen . In 1954 he moved to the State Museum for Prehistory in Dresden as a research assistant . In October 1956, Billig received his doctorate with the work Die Aunjetitzer Kultur in Sachsen in Dresden. Reviewers were Friedrich Behn and Gerhard Mildenberger . In 1960 he became a research assistant and in 1964 curator at the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle . From 1966 he was a research assistant at the chair for history of the Pädagogische Hochschule Dresden (PHD), from 1972 lecturer. In December 1986 the doctorate B took place with Friedrich Schlette , Joachim Herrmann and Hans Walther ; The subject of the four-volume habilitation thesis was studies on the castle and feudal society in the Upper Saxon-Meissnian area. Archaeological-archival comparative studies. In 1987 he became an associate professor at the PHD. He was newly appointed in 1991 and retired the following year.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Aunjetitz culture in Saxony. Catalog (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Vol. 7, ISSN  0070-7201 ). Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1958.
  • with Gunter Oettel: Excavations in the Wermsdorf Forest. A research balance sheet (= Dresden series on research. 87, 14, ISSN  0233-0768 ). Printed as a manuscript. KFW Wander University of Education, Dresden 1987.
  • The Burgward organization in the Upper Saxon-Meissnian area. Archaeological-archival comparative studies (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Vol. 20). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin (East) 1989, ISBN 3-326-00489-3 .
  • with Heinz Müller : castles. Witnesses of Saxon history. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1998. ISBN 3-7686-4191-0 .
  • Pleißenland - Vogtland. The kingdom and the governors. Investigations into ruling organizations and state constitution during the Middle Ages under the aspect of periodization. Vogtland-Verlag, Plauen 2002. ISBN 3-928828-22-3 .

literature

  • Rainer Aurig , Reinhardt Butz , Ingolf Grässler , André Thieme (eds.): In the service of historical regional studies. Contributions to archeology, medieval research, onomatology and museum work, mainly in Saxony. Festive offer for Gerhard Billig on the occasion of his 75th birthday, offered by students and colleagues. Sax, Beucha 2002, ISBN 3-934544-30-4 .
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 137-138.
  • Rainer Aurig, Reinhardt Butz, Ingolf Grässler, André Thieme (eds.): Castle - Street - Settlement - Dominion. Studies on the Middle Ages in Saxony and Central Germany. Festschrift for Gerhard Billig for his 80th birthday. Sax, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-012-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Sächsische Zeitung, May 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cheap, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2019
Place of death Dresden