Heinrich Kemke

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Heinrich Kemke (born August 2, 1864 in Koenigsberg - Ponarth ; † 1941 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German bookseller , prehistorian and curator at the Prussia Museum .

Life

Heinrich Kemke was a son of the businessman Johann Eduard Kemke and the younger brother of the classical philologist Johannes Kemke . After attending grammar school in Königsberg, he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and was employed in bookstores , first at Koch & Reimer on site and then in Berlin. In Berlin he owned a publishing house with Heinrich and met Rosa Faltin. After the Heinrich & Kemke publishing house in Berlin went bankrupt , he returned to Königsberg and lived with his mother until her death in 1917.

In 1893 he began with archaeological - prehistoric research, dealt with the west Baltic barrow culture and became a member of the Physical-Economic Society in Königsberg . In 1894 he published the first monograph report on excavations in Scharnick near Seeburg on the archaeological excavations in Scharnigk (today Żardeniki near Jeziorany ). Then he took part in the excavations in Oberhof (now Aukštkiemiai in Klaipėda ) and at the burial ground at Bartlickshof in Lötzen circle part. He was a longtime librarian for the Prussia Antiquities Society . After 1900 he became curator at the Prussia Museum . In 1902 he posthumously published the work East Prussian antiquities from the time of the great burial grounds after the birth of Christ by Otto Tischler (1843-1891). Kemke wrote writings about the East Baltic antiquities, the barrows in Samland and in 1926 a biographical contribution about the long-time member of the society Karl Stadie (1847-1924).

Heinrich Kemke made an important contribution to the drafting and design of the Prussian Excavation Act of March 26, 1914 .

During a cure in Rauschen, he met Rosa Faltin, whom he had met in Berlin. They married in 1920 and moved to Berlin in 1934. After Rosa's death in 1935, he lived in Bodelschwingh Abbey in Berlin-Spandau .

Fonts (selection)

  • Report on excavations in Scharnick near Seeburg . 1894.
  • The bronze sword of Atkamp . In: Meeting reports of the Physikalisch-Ökonomische Gesellschaft zu Königsberg i. Pr. No. 36, 1895.
  • The Marienhof silver find . 1898.
  • A contribution to the chronology of the East Prussian grave fields with consideration of the neighboring areas . 1899.
  • The Bartlickshof burial ground . 1900.
  • The importance of the East Baltic antiquities for the prehistory of the province of East Prussia . 1900.
  • List of finds for plates 7–15 of the 1st (East Prussian) section of the photographic album of the Berlin anthropological exhibition from 1880 . In: Materials from the East Prussian Provincial Museum of the Royal Physical-Economic Society , Königsberg 1901.
  • (as ed.): Otto Tischler: East Prussian antiquities from the time of the great burial fields after the birth of Christ . Physical-Economic Society of Königsberg, Königsberg 1902. ( Online )
  • Catalog of the Prussia Museum . Part I, 1906.
  • Barrows near Sorgenau , Kr. Fischhausen . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 22, 1909, 296–303.
  • Barrows in northwestern Samland . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 22, 1909.
  • Barrows in the Warnick Forest, Kr. Fischhausen . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 22, 1909, pp. 386–398.
  • Tumulus II near Klycken , Kr. Fischhausen . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 22, 1909, pp. 399–404.
  • Barrow of Streitberg near Klein Dirschken, Kr. Fischhausen . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 22, 1909, pp. 412-413.
  • Critical considerations on Tischler's method of the East Prussian grave field time . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 23, 1914, pp. 1-57.
  • The depot find from Frauenburg . II . In: Meeting reports of the Alterstumgesellschaft Prussia , Vol. 23, 1914, pp. 71–79.
  • In memory of General Stadie . In: Prussia. Journal of the ancient society Prussia 26 (1926), pp. 7-11.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death book of the registry office Spandau I No. 1312/1941.
  2. ^ Heinrich Kemke (1864–1939). Lietuvos Archeloijos Draugija, accessed June 12, 2014 (Lithuanian).
personal data
SURNAME Kemke, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, prehistorian and curator at the Prussia Museum
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg - Ponarth
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Berlin-Spandau