Gert Hatz

Gert Hatz (born January 4, 1928 in Hamburg ; † September 5, 2017 in Eutin ) was a German numismatist and university professor .

Education

Gert Hatz began studying history , German , historical auxiliary sciences and folklore at the University of Hamburg in 1947 . One of his teachers was Walter Hävernick , who had been director of the Museum for Hamburg History and holder of the chair for German antiquity and folklore at the University of Hamburg since 1947 . From 1950 Hatz worked as a student assistant in the museum's coin cabinet . He was Hävernick on 12 January 1952 a work at the beginning of coinage in Holstein doctorate . Hatz's dissertation was one of a series of similar works by Hävernick's students, including his later wife Vera Hatz and Peter Berghaus , with whom the "Hamburg School" of numismatics was founded. They were characterized by the consideration of coin finds as a historical source and a pronounced interdisciplinary approach that brought together numismatics, archeology and economic history.

job

On January 14, 1952, Hatz entered the service of the Museum of Hamburg History. Hatz became the main curator of the museum and was head of the coin cabinet until 1993.

During half of his working hours, Hatz was assigned to relieve Hävernick as a member of the Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany and to work on the creation of the central catalog of German coin finds of the Middle Ages and modern times (coin find catalog Medieval / Modern Age). From 1961 to 1974 he was Hamburg's second representative on the commission alongside Hävernick. In 1974 he took over Hävernick's place as Hamburg's first representative and chairman of the commission. He held this position until his retirement in 1993.

From 1956, one of Hatz's tasks was to participate in the systematic registration of German coins in Swedish finds from the Viking Age. The project was agreed upon by the Numismatic Commission and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and ran for decades. In 1971 Hatz received his habilitation at the University of Hamburg . His habilitation thesis was published by a Swedish publisher in 1974 and was about German coins in Sweden in the 10th and 11th centuries. In 1972 Hatz became a private lecturer, in 1988 an adjunct professor at the history seminar of the University of Hamburg and honorary professor at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Kiel .

Like his wife Vera, Gert Hatz was one of the most important medieval numismatists, especially in the field of coins and monetary history of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Awards

• 1988 Honorary Prize from the Society for International Monetary History
• 1993 Commander of the North Star Order
• 2002 Derek Allen Prize from the British Academy
• 2003 Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society (together with Vera Hatz)

Fonts (selection)

• The beginnings of coinage in Holstein. The coins of the Counts of Schauenburg up to 1325 (= Numismatic Studies. 5, ISSN  0469-2144 ). Museum for Hamburg History - Dept. Münzkabinett, Hamburg 1952, ( full text ; also: Hamburg, University, dissertation, 1952).
• Trade and traffic between the German Empire and Sweden in the late Viking Age. The German coins of the 10th and 11th centuries in Sweden. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Stockholm 1974, ISBN 91-7192-141-9 (also: Hamburg, Universität, habilitation thesis, 1971).
• with Vera Hatz , Ulrich Zwicker, Noe Gale and Zofia Gale: Otto-Adelheid-Pfennige. Investigations on coins from the 10th / 11th centuries Century (= Commentationes de nummis saeculorum IX – XI in Suecia repertis. Nova Series 7). Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm 1991, ISBN 9-171-92827-8 .
• with Vera Hatz et al .: Bräkne-Hoby - Sölvesborg (= Corpus Nummorum Saeculorum IX – XI qui in Suecia reperti sunt. = Catalog of Coins from the 9th - 11th Centuries found in Sweden. 4: Blekinge. Part 1). Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 2010, ISBN 978-91-7402-393-0 .

literature

• Peter Berghaus , Jörgen Bracker , Jørgen Steen Jensen, Lars O. Lagerqvist (eds.): Commentationes Numismaticae 1988. Ceremony presented to Gert and Vera Hatz on January 4, 1988. Tietjen, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-922451-04-7 (pp. 353-357 list of publications).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gert Hatz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ralf Wiechmann: Gert Hatz January 4, 1928 - September 5, 2017 . In: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt . 66th year, no. 11 , November 2017, p. 443-446 .