Gilbert Trathnigg

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Gilbert Trathnigg (born April 26, 1911 in Wiener Neustadt ; † September 25, 1970 near Ancona ) was an Austrian archaeologist , Germanic medievalist , museum director and archivist.

Gilbert Trathnigg grew up in St. Pölten , his father was the high school teacher and old Germanist Fritz Trathnigg, who shaped his interests. He studied German, prehistory and folklore at the University of Vienna from 1930 to 1933 . In 1934 he received his doctorate with Rudolf Much with a thesis "The names of the East Germans and their sound development". In 1934 he completed the preparatory course at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . From 1935 to 1936 he received a grant from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft in Vienna. From 1936 to 1938 he was employed as a research assistant at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin. He became a member of the SS and worked for the Research Association for German Ahnenerbe of the SS from 1938 onwards . From 1940 to 1945 he was a soldier in the war.

After the war he worked as a warehouse clerk and commercial clerk in various places in Upper Austria until 1954 and as an archivist for the parish of Vöcklabruck . From 1952 he was a research assistant, from 1954 until his death director of the city museum of Wels , from 1955 director of the agricultural museum and from 1960 director of the city archive. He carried out excavations on the Residenzplatz and in the cathedral of Salzburg , in Lambach Abbey , in Wels, Braunau, Heiligenkreiz near Micheldorf and in Schöndorf near Vöcklabruck. Since 1954 he was honorary curator of the Federal Monuments Office , 1961 a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute . In 1967 he was awarded the title of professor. He published numerous archaeological and (old) German articles in various specialist journals.

Publications (selection)

  • with Joseph Otto Plassmann (Ed.): German land is returning home. Ostmark and Sudetenland as Germanic people's soil. Ahnenerbe-Stiftung Verlag, Berlin 1939.
  • The religion of the Teutons. In: Werner Müller, Gilbert Trathnigg: Religions of the Greeks, Romans and Teutons. Leitner, Wunsiedel 1954.
  • with Kurt Holter: Wels from prehistoric times to the present. Friedhuber, Vienna 1964. 2nd edition: Welsermühl, Wels 1985.

literature

  • Kurt Holter : Gilbert Trathnigg. In: Yearbook of the Wels Museum Association. Volume 16, Wels 1969/70, pp. 11-16.
  • Georg Wacha: Gilbert Trathnigg. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 116, Linz 1971, pp. 9-12, PDF (1.1 MB) on ZOBODAT
  • Bernd-A. Rusinek : "Forest and tree in the Aryan-Germanic intellectual and cultural history" - A research project of the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS 1937–1945. In: Albrecht Lehmann, Klaus Schriewer (ed.): The forest - a German myth? Perspectives on a cultural topic. Berlin / Hamburg 2000, pp. 267–363, full text especially pp. 66–68 (PDF; 483 kB).
  • The Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary. In: Acta praehistorica et archaeologica. 36/37, Berlin 2005, pp. 564-565.

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personal data
SURNAME Trathnigg, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archaeologist, Germanist medievalist, museum director and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1970
Place of death at Ancona