Hansjürgen Brachmann

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Hansjürgen Brachmann (also in the spelling Hans-Jürgen Brachmann ; born March 11, 1938 in Senftenberg , † June 5, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German medieval archaeologist .

Hansjürgen Brachmann grew up in difficult circumstances. He passed his Abitur in 1956 and then did an internship at the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory in Schwerin until 1957 . From 1957 to 1961 he studied prehistory and early history as well as history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, among others with Friedrich Schlette, and graduated as a historian. This was followed by a scheduled scientific traineeship in Halle-Wittenberg, and in 1964/65 he was scientific secretary in the Dean's Office of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1965 Brachmann became senior research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin . The doctorate took place in June 1969 in Halle with a thesis on the subject of the history of the Slavs of the Middle Elb-Saale area in the 6th to 10th centuries (based on archaeological sources) . The reviewers were Schlette and Joachim Herrmann .

After completing his doctorate and briefly as an assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin , he became scientific secretary at the Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the German Academy of Sciences and, after the restructuring of this institution, head of the scientific secretariat at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology (ZIAGA) Academy of Sciences of the GDR . With the work of the medieval fortifications. Investigating the position and function of defense structures in the recovery process of the Central European feudal society , Brachmann completed his habilitation at the academy, where he was appointed professor in September 1985. In 1985 he also became deputy director of ZIAGA. Towards the end of the GDR Brachmann was a member of the Presidium of the Historians' Society of the GDR . From 1991 to 1993 he was a research associate in the research focus on the history and culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig. Here he worked primarily as an organizer and was co-editor of many publications in which archaeological results were processed. Shortly before his 60th birthday, he retired from work due to a serious illness.

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  • Slavic tribes on the Elbe and Saale. On their history and culture in the 6th to 10th centuries. Based on archaeological sources , Academy, Berlin 1978 (writings on prehistory and early history, vol. 32)
  • Editor with Joachim Herrmann : Early History of the European City: Requirements, Basics , Academy, Berlin 1991 (Writings on Prehistory and Early History, Vol. 44) ISBN 3-05-000923-3
  • Editor with Heinz-Joachim Vogt: Mensch und Umwelt. Studies on settlements and land development in prehistory and early history , Academy, Berlin 1992 ISBN 3-05-001866-6
  • The early medieval fortifications in Central Europe. Studies on its development and function in the Germanic-German area , Academy, Berlin 1993 (writings on prehistory and early history, vol. 45) ISBN 3-05-001995-6
  • Publisher: Burg - Burgstadt - Stadt. On the genesis of medieval non-agricultural centers in East Central Europe , Academy, Berlin 1995 (research on the history and culture of eastern Central Europe 2) ISBN 3-05-002601-4
  • Editor with Jan Klápště: House building and spatial structure of early cities in East Central Europe , Institute of Archeology, Prague 1996 (Památky archeologické. Supplementum, Vol. 6) ISBN 80-901934-7-1
  • with Elzbieta Foster, Christine Kratzke, Heike Reimann: The Cistercian monastery Dargun in the tribal area of ​​the Zirzipans. An interdisciplinary contribution to research into medieval settlement processes in Germania Slavica . Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003.

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SURNAME Brachmann, Hansjürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brachmann, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medieval archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1998
Place of death Berlin