Heinrich Kohl (archaeologist)

Heinrich Kohl (born May 4, 1877 in Kreuznach , † September 26, 1914 at Moronvilliers near Reims ; full name Karl Gustav Heinrich Kohl ) was a German architect and building researcher .

Life

After graduating from high school, following his inclination and talent, he studied architecture between 1896 and 1901 at the Technical Universities of Charlottenburg , Munich and Dresden . His father, the Kreuznach high school professor Dr. Otto Kohl, he owed the archaeological interests. In 1902 he met Otto Puchstein , then professor of classical archeology in Freiburg, who was able to win him over as an architect for the excavations in Baalbek . Here he was active during the excavation campaigns from 1902 to 1904. In spring 1905 he led the synagogue expedition of the German Orient Society (DOG) in Galilee, in which Carl Watzinger took part as an archaeologist . From 1907 Kohl worked as a government master builder at the railway directorates in Magdeburg and Posen, later in Berlin, where he had enough freedom to pursue his archaeological interests. In the spring of 1907 he was able to follow Puchstein's request and carry out the architectural recording of Boğazköy . In the same year he went on another DOG trip, again with Watzinger. In the autumn they passed through Palestine and the eastern Jordan country; two places are noteworthy: Keraze (Korazim) , where they carried out the excavation that was impossible in 1905 and uncovered the synagogue, and Petra , where Kohl examined the as yet unexplored Qaṣr al-Bint Fira'un ruin with its stucco decorations and a construction survey in just two days made. On November 6, 1908 he received his doctorate with the thesis "Kasr Firaun in Petra" at the University of Rostock under Carl Watzinger. On October 1, 1913, Kohl was transferred to Berlin as head of the Building Construction Office IX at the Ministerial Building Commission. On May 19, 1914 , he qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Hanover for the subject of "History of Architecture".

When the First World War broke out , Heinrich Kohl was drafted as first lieutenant in the reserve and appointed "company leader" of the 101st Saxon Reserve Infantry Regiment. His regiment was deployed on the Western Front, where it took part in the occupation of the village of Moronvilliers near Reims in September 1914. Kohl was killed in a counter-attack by the French army on September 26, 1914. Watzinger praised his scientific achievements in the foreword to her report on the synagogues in Galilee.

Fonts

• From the reports of Mr. Kohl on the expedition to research the synagogue ruins of Galilee , in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 27, 1905, 2-4.
• From the reports of Messrs. Kohl, Watzinger and Hiller on the expedition to explore the synagogue ruins of Galilee , in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 29, 1905, 4–34.
• Kasr Firaun in Petra. (= Scientific publications of the German Orient Society 13). Leipzig 1910.
• Otto Puchstein: Boghasköi. The structures ; with the participation of Heinrich Kohl and Daniel Krencker (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society 19). Leipzig 1912.
• with Carl Watzinger: Ancient Synagogues in Galilaea (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society 29). Leipzig 1916.

literature

• Carl Watzinger: Ancient synagogues in Galilaea. Leipzig 1916, pp. IV-VI.
• Technical University of Hanover (Ed.): Catalogus Professorum. Hanover 1956, p. 116.
• Hanswulf Bloedhorn: Heinrich Kohl's diary of the synagogue expedition in Galilaea and in Gaulanitis in 1905 , in: Yearbook of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land 8, 2002, pp. 45–94.
• Haim Goren: “Go and explore the country”: German Palestine Studies in the 19th Century. Göttingen 2003, p. 336.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Kohl in the catalog of the German National Library