Gerhard Fingerlin

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Gerhard Fingerlin (born October 7, 1937 in Lörrach ; † August 26, 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German prehistorian , classical archaeologist , ancient historian , provincial Roman archaeologist , ground monument curator and university professor .

Youth and education

Gerhard Fingerlin was born in Lörrach and attended the humanistic grammar school there. After graduating from high school, he studied Prehistory and Early History, Classical Archeology and Ancient and Medieval History at the Universities of Basel , Freiburg and Munich . During his studies he was influenced in particular by Joachim Werner , with whom he also received his doctorate in the winter semester 1962/1963 with a thesis on the Alemannic grave fields of Güttingen and Merdingen .

life and work

In 1963 he married the art historian and archaeologist Ilse Riebe (1935–2016). The marriage has a daughter (born 1971). He also began his professional career in 1963, initially as an assistant at what was then the State Office for Prehistory and Protohistory in Freiburg, where he later became a curator and in 1993 he became chief curator. In 1972 he was also appointed head of the soil monument maintenance department at the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office in the Freiburg administrative region , a position that he held until his retirement in 2002.

He turned down opportunities for an academic career and instead devoted his entire life to preserving monuments in his home region. As a result, in addition to his studied subjects, he inevitably also got into the field of Roman provincial archeology, in which he achieved great merit not least because he recognized the importance of the Dangstetten Roman camp , which originated from the early occupation, and in 1967, as a conservationist, the further commercial exploitation of the camp site in favor of archaeological research.

In 1968 he was a co-founder of the Archeology Association in Baden, for which he edited and published the “Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden” together with Heiko Steuer even after his retirement. In 1993 he was appointed lecturer and in 1996 honorary professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Gerhard Fingerlin was honored with two festschrifts on the occasion of his 65th and 75th birthday and in 2003 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In the course of his career he published more than 260 titles.

Gerhard Fingerlin died just six months after the death of his wife at the age of 79 in Freiburg and was buried in Adelhausen .

Awards and honors

  • 2001 Regio Archaeologica commemorating Fingerlin's 65th birthday (2002)
  • 2003 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2012 Festschrift grosso modo for Fingerlin's 75th birthday

Fonts (selection)

  • The Alemannic burial ground of Binningen im Hegau, district of Konstanz . In: Badische Fundberichte, 22 (1962), pp. 89–118.
  • The Alemannic burial grounds of Güttingen and Merdingen in southern Baden . De Gruyter, Berlin 1971.
  • The gates of the early Roman camp of Dangstetten (Upper Rhine) . In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg. 3, 1977, pp. 278-285, doi: 10.11588 / fbbw.1977.0.24839 .
  • Fort places and Roman roads in the early medieval settlement of the Kaiserstuhl. Archaeological aspects of securing Franconian rule in the southern Upper Rhine Valley . In: Joachim Werner and Eugen Ewig (eds.): From late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Current problems from a historical and archaeological point of view. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 379-409.
  • Küssaberg – Dangstetten. Camp for a larger unit of troops . In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3 , pp. 156-158.
  • Dangstetten I. Catalog of the finds (sites 1 to 603) (= research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. 22). Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0775-5 .
  • Prehistory and early history based on archaeological sources . In: Andreas Hoppe (Ed.): The Markgräflerland . Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Freiburg 1991, pp. 65–116. ( Digitized version )
  • Dangstetten II. Catalog of the finds (sites 604 to 1358) (= research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg. 69). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1402-6 .
  • Roman and Celtic horsemen in the camp of the 19th Legion of Dangstetten on the Upper Rhine . In: Archaeological News from Baden. 60, Freiburg 1999, ISSN  0178-045X , pp. 3-18.
  • Hüfingen. Early Roman camp . In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3 , pp. 131f.
  • Hüfingen. Cremation field. In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3 , pp. 132f.
  • From the Romans to the Alamanni. New masters in the country. In: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Imperium Romanum. Rome's provinces on the Neckar, Rhine and Danube. Theiss et al., Stuttgart et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1945-1 , pp. 452-462.

literature

  • Volker Bierbrauer: Gerhard Fingerlin October 8, 1937 - August 26, 2016 . In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg, Volume 36, Theiss, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-9422-2728-5 , ISSN  0071-9897 , pp. 417f., ( Digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Fingerlin: The Alemannic grave fields of Güttingen and Merdingen in southern Baden . De Gruyter, Berlin 1971.
  2. ↑ a b Volker Bierbrauer: Gerhard Fingerlin October 8, 1937 - August 26, 2016 . In: Find reports from Baden-Württemberg, Volume 36, Theiss, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-9422-2728-5 , ISSN  0071-9897 , pp. 417f., ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Sponsorship group Archeology in Baden e. V. , official website, accessed on March 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ On the archaeological news from Baden in the journal directory of the Heidelberg University Library, accessed on March 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Christel Bücker (Ed.): Regio Archaeologica. Archeology and history on the Upper and Upper Rhine. Festschrift for Gerhard Fingerlin on his 65th birthday . Leidorf, Rahden 2002, ISBN 3-89646-398-5 .
  6. ↑ a b Niklot Krohn and Ursula Koch (eds.): Grosso Modo. Sources and finds from late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Gerhard Fingerlin on his 75th birthday . Greiner, Weinstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86705-069-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Fingerlin, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian, classical archaeologist, Roman provincial archaeologist, ancient historian and ground monument curator
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach
DATE OF DEATH 26th August 2016
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau