Hans Drescher

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Hans Drescher (born December 18, 1923 in Harburg ; † February 11, 2019 in Vallendar ) was a German expert on historical metallurgy .

biography

Drescher was a trained mechanical engineer and carpenter, civil engineer, architect and from 1954 to 1978 employee of the Helms Museum in Hamburg.

He was a recognized expert in bell casting . Among other things, he was responsible for the cast and reconstruction of two bells from the 11th century, the casting pit of which was excavated by the Helms Museum in 1986 on Hamburg's Domplatz.

In 1968 he received the Brothers Grimm Medal of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for his metalworking work on the trading history of the Roman Iron Age and for checking the absolute chronology of this period (laudation). In 1989 he received the Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal from the Hamburg Senate, after having been awarded the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg the previous year . Drescher has two honorary doctorates (University of Kiel, University of Hamburg). He was a member of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony and from 1989 an honorary member of the Association of German Foundry Experts and an honorary member of the Association of German Bell Museum.

A festival colloquium was held in the Helms Museum on his 80th birthday.

Publications (selection)

  • The overlay casting. A contribution to prehistoric metal technology . Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 1958.
  • with Ulrich Drenkhan: Studies on bronze casting and ceramics in medieval Lübeck (= Lübeck writings on archeology and cultural history 31). ISBN 9783867574310 .

literature

  • Ralf Busch, Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen (ed.): Festschrift for Hans Drescher on his 75th birthday (= Hammaburg NF 12). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-01360-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the new RUF, issue No. 8, 69th year. In: http://www.neuerruf.de . Bobeck Medienmanagement GmbH, February 23, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 (page 13 "Family ads").
personal data
SURNAME Drescher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expert in historical metallurgy and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Harburg
DATE OF DEATH 11th February 2019
Place of death Vallendar