Harald Koethe

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Harald Koethe (born March 6, 1904 in Ludwigsburg , † February 3, 1944 near Odessa ) was a German art historian , classical and Roman provincial archaeologist .

Harald Koethe studied from 1922 to 1927 in Munich and Marburg. He received his doctorate in 1928 at the Philipps University of Marburg with a thesis on early Christian niche rotunda. A contribution to the type history of the early Christian central building . In 1928 he also stayed in Palmyra with Daniel Krencker . Later he worked for the Trier State Museum and taught as a private lecturer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Here he offered more events on Roman provincial archeology. Later he became professor at the University of Strasbourg with a special focus on Western European archeology alongside Emil Kunze and Joachim Werner . Koethe fell in World War II in 1944 , and his academic private library, like the libraries of Hans Dragendorff and Ernst Fabricius, became part of the seminar library in Strasbourg. His path in science led him from art history to classical archeology to Roman provincial archeology.

Especially in popular science writings Koethe got entangled in the National Socialist ideology. With regard to the German claim to Alsace, he declared the German Ariovistus to be the owner of Alsace in Caesar's time . He also dealt with the " Germanic-Roman antithesis ".

literature

  • Wolfgang Kimmig : In memory of Harald Koethe [1904–1944] , In: Trierer Zeitschrift 50 (1987), p. 327ff.
  • Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 333.
  • Frank Unruh: "Ready for action and willing to make sacrifices". Three scientists from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier on duty in the occupied western regions (Wolfgang Dehn, Wolfgang Kimmig, Harald Koethe) , In: Hans-Peter Kuhnen (Ed.): Propaganda. Power. History. Archeology on the Rhine and Moselle in the service of National Socialism , Trier 2002, 151–188 (series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 24) ISBN 978-3-923319-51-0

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Stefan Altekamp : Classical Archeology and National Socialism (PDF file; 393 kB)
  2. ^ The importance of the Rhineland for the Roman Empire , In: Rheinische Vorzeit in Wort und Bild 3 (1940), pp. 22–32
  3. ↑ Contributions to the representation of Teutons , In: Germania 21, 1937, 250-253
personal data
SURNAME Koethe, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, classical archaeologist and provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1944
Place of death near Odessa