Heinz Grünert

Heinz Grünert (born July 22, 1927 in Miltitz ; † August 28, 2010 in Bremerhaven ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Heinz Grünert's attendance at secondary school was interrupted by his participation in the war and as a prisoner of war in 1944/45. He finally passed his Abitur in 1946 and then attended a new teacher training course until 1948. Afterwards he worked as a new teacher, at the same time worked in administration and joined the SED . In 1948 he was delegated to study. Grünert then studied history as well as prehistory and early history at the University of Leipzig . He completed his studies as a graduate historian and was a scheduled academic aspirant until 1953, and an unscheduled academic aspirant in Leipzig in 1954. In 1954 Grünert moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), where he was initially a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History until 1962. The doctorate with Friedrich Behn and Gerhard Mildenberger took place in December 1957 on the subject of the settlement of the Elster-Mulde-Land during the Laten Period . In January 1968 followed with studies on production in the tribes of the Middle Elb-Saale area in the centuries around the turn of our era, the habilitation with Karl-Heinz Otto , Paul Grimm and Günter Behm-Blancke . From 1968 to 1992 Grünert headed the Prehistory and Early History department at the HU Berlin. From 1969 to 1975 he taught there as a university lecturer, and since September 1975 as a full professor of prehistory. In 1992 he retired.

From 1953 to 1966 Grünert was a member of the scientific advisory board for prehistory and early history at the State Secretariat for higher education and technical schools. In 1963 he became editor, in 1964 responsible editor and in 1991 for one year editor of the Ethnographic-Archaeological Journal .

Fonts

• as editor: Romans and Teutons in Central Europe. Academy, Berlin 1975.
• as leader of an author collective: History of primitive society. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1982.
• Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931). From Germanist to prehistoric. A scientist in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic (= prehistoric research. 22). Leidorf, Rahden 2002, ISBN 3-89646-504-X .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic of Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 251.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Grünert in the catalog of the German National Library