Hans Christ (art historian)

Hans Christ , baptismal name : Johannes Christ (born December 19, 1884 in Arnau , Sudetenland , † April 14, 1978 in Monschau ) was a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Family and education

A native of Arnau Hans Christian devoted to the attainment of higher education studying art history at the University of Leipzig , the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Strasbourg , there took place in 1912 his doctorate to Dr. phil.

Hans Christ, who left the Protestant church and has since called himself a free thinker , was married to the soprano and chamber singer Rhoda von Glehn. He died in Monschau in the spring of 1978 at the age of 93.

Professional background

After completing his doctorate, Hans Christ was employed as a curator at the Württemberg State Art Collections in Stuttgart , and later he was promoted to chief curator . This function was interrupted by his participation in the First World War as a volunteer. Hans Christ, who joined the NSDAP and the SS in July 1931, followed a call to a full professorship for art history at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen in 1933 , and in 1947 he retired .

Hans Christ, author of important art historical treatises, was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) .

Publications

• Ludwigsburg porcelain figures . in: Books of the Art Collections of the Württemberg State, Volume 1. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, 1921
• Romanesque churches in Swabia and Neckar-Franconia from the Carolingian era to the Cistercians. Hugo Matthaes, Stuttgart, 1925
• The Majestas Domini on a gospel book from Zwiefalten Monastery. Benno Filser, Augsburg, 1932
• The parish church of Unterregenbach. 1952
• together with Ernst Raub: Der Kelch von Unterregenbach. 1956
• The six ministers of Reichenau Abbey: from its foundation to the end of the twelfth century. Th. Keller, Reichenau, 1956
• The crypt of the Gumbertus Church in Ansbach. (The share of Emperor Heinrich IV in the construction of the Speyer Cathedral and the Lombard masters). Ansbach, 1957
• The Carolingian thermal baths of the Aachen Palatinate. Aachen, 1958
• together with Heinrich Schiffers: The chapel of the Pippin royal court in Aachen. Volk, Aachen, 1965

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1. 10th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, p. 330.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Vol. 16. Arani, Berlin 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 p. 171.
• Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 3, 13th Edition, De Gruyter: Berlin, New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 4453.
• Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945) . Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-86130-181-4 , ( Aachener Studies on Technology and Society 4), (At the same time: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2003), pp. 104, 284, 371, 372 , 373, 374.

Web links

• Entry about Hans Christ in the university archive - memory of the RWTH Aachen; accessed on June 18, 2017