Helmut Ziegert

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Helmut Ziegert

Helmut Ziegert (born February 27, 1934 in Grünenwalde ; † March 30, 2013 in Bad Segeberg ) was a German prehistorian who was particularly active in Africa.

Career

He studied prehistory and early history in Hamburg, Berlin, Saarbrücken and Frankfurt and received his doctorate in Frankfurt in 1961. From 1962 to 1964 , he worked as a research assistant at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt, before moving to the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Hamburg as a research assistant in 1965 . In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hamburg. In January 1972 he was appointed to the newly established position for “Prehistory of Man and Prehistory and Early History of Africa” and was appointed professor.

His main areas of work were

  1. Origin and development of man,
  2. Methods of archeology and
  3. Comparisons of cultural history.

From 1962 to 2012 he headed numerous research projects, often lasting several months, in Africa (Libya, Chad, Sudan, Ghana, Egypt, Niger, Ethiopia) and South America. Among them: research at Leptis Magna in Libya on questions of the granary of Rome and the fall of the Roman colony, research on sedentariness in the Pleistocene (Permanent Settlement in Pleistocene Societies in Budrinna, Libya and at Awash in Ethiopia), research in Aksum in Ethiopia on questions of State development, the beginning and expansion of Christianity and the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba , which are, however, considered extremely controversial in the professional world. Another focus was on archaeological investigations in northern Germany in the area of Stade and the Hamburg Elbmarschen on questions of landscape development, settlement sequences in the marshes and geest and on settlement and cultural behavior. Helmut Ziegert represented a problem-oriented research approach. The excavations should be preceded by research questions and modeling. He criticized the, in his opinion, widespread collecting of objects, which he described as an object-oriented approach. In the history of human development, Ziegert emphasized the influence of intellectual development. It can be read from the cultural remains and, in contrast to skull and bone shapes, describes the degree of human existence. He emphasized the application of archeology to ideological religious questions (development or creation).

Volunteering

From 1978 to 1983 Helmut Ziegert was chairman of the German Society for Pre- and Protohistory (DGUF).

Fonts (selection)

  • Report of Archeological Mission 2011 to Melka Kunture- Weraba, north of River Awash. Online publication, Hamburg 2012.
  • Report of Archeological Mission 2011 to Axum - Kaleb, site 25. With Dirk Siebers and Marlies Wendowski. Online publication, Hamburg 2012.
  • The Origin of Man - Two Conceptions. Online publication, Hamburg 2012.
  • Adam came from Africa - but how? Online publication, Hamburg 2011.
  • Budrinna Homo Erectus Grave 29 - Anthropology and Archeology. With Robert von Zieten, Glynn M. von Zieten and Ilona Johannsen. Online publication, Hamburg 2011.
  • 14C - Dating and Volcanism. Online publication, Hamburg 2009.
  • Interdisciplinary thinking. Online publication, Hamburg 2008.
  • The Palace of the Queen of Sheba: The archaeologist Prof. Dr. Helmut Ziegert on his surprising discoveries in Ethiopia. TV interview with Alexander Kluge. Dctp; Date of broadcast November 30, 2008, Sat 1.
  • A New Dawn for Humanity - Lower Palaeolithic Village Life in Libya and Ethiopia. In: Minerva - The International Review of Ancient Art and Archeology. Vol. 18, No 4 (2007), pp. 2-3 u. 8-9.
  • Aksum - Quarries and Copper Processing. In: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Hamburg June 20-25, 2003. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-04799-2 , pp. 89-99.
  • The Wadi Lebda Roman Villa, Libya. with Marlies Wendowski. In: Minerva - The International Review of Ancient Art and Archeology. Vol. 16, No 6 (2005), pp. 33-34.
  • Slope foot deposits - A geomorphological phenomenon in archaeological research. In: Hephaistos - Critical journal on the theory and practice of archeology and related areas. No. 23 (2005), pp. 7-40.
  • Aksum at the Transition to Christianity. with Marlies Wendowski. In: Annales d´Ethiopie. No. 19 (2003), pp. 215-230.
  • Archeology as History - A Track into the Past. Books on Demand, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4293-9 .
  • Loess over Lebda - A preliminary report of investigations 1999-2002. In: Hephaistos - Critical journal on the theory and practice of archeology and related areas. No. 19/20 (2001/2002), pp. 83-96.
  • The current comparison as the basis of archaeological-historical interpretation. In: Ethnographic-Archaeological Journal. (EAZ), No. 35 (1994), pp. 177-198.
  • Drochtersen-Ritsch . On the early historical settlement in Südkehdingen (district of Stade). District of Stade, Oberstadtdirektion, Stade 1992, ISBN 3-9802018-7-2 .
  • From collecting curiosities to basic historical science - archeology wants to help solve today's problems. In: Uni hh research. No. 24 (1990), pp. 46-56.
  • Scientific working techniques in cultural studies with special consideration of the archaeological disciplines. Tuduv, Munich 1986.
  • Archeology and criminology. Goals and ways of gaining knowledge. with Achim Gründel. In: Archaeological information - communications on prehistory and early history. No. 5 (1983), pp. 175-192, doi: 10.11588 / ai.1983.0.27848 .
  • Combination statistics and seriation. On the method and results of K. Goldmann's Bronze Age chronology. In: Archaeological information messages on prehistory and early history. No. 5 (1983), pp. 21-52.
  • Object-oriented and problem-oriented research approaches in archeology. In: Hephaestus. 2, pp. 53-65 (1980).
  • Salt smelting in the Sahara. In: Section No. 26 / H. 2 (1974), pp. 28-32.
  • Gebel Ben Ghnema and North Tibesti. Pleistocene climatic and cultural succession in the central Sahara. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969. (Habilitation thesis)
  • Dor el Gussa and Gebel Ben Ghnema. On the post-pluvial settlement history of the East Fezzan - results of the Frobenius expedition to Libya 1963/64 . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1967, DNB 458727121 .
  • On the psychological evolution of man. In: Eike Haberland et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Adolf Ellegard Jensen . Volume II. Renner, Munich 1964, pp. 815-842.
  • Archeology and Ethnology - For the cooperation of two sciences. In: Berlin yearbook for prehistory and early history. No. 4 (1964), pp. 102-149.
  • On the chronology and group structure of the western tumulus culture (= Berlin contributions to prehistory and early history , Volume 7) de Gruyter, Berlin 1963 DNB 455812594 (dissertation University of Frankfurt, Philosophical Faculty, December 13, 1961, DNB 482341300 )

literature

  • Klaus Frerichs, Marlies Wendowski (Hrsg.): Archeology 2000. Festschrift for Helmut Ziegert. (= Archeology as history , Volume 2) Book on Demand, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8334-6736-3 (with list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Ziegert, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünenwald
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2013
Place of death Bad Segeberg