Herbert Krüger (art historian)

Herbert Lothar Walter Krüger (born April 8, 1902 in Schneidemühl , † January 17, 1996 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German art historian , museum director and prehistorian .

Life

After attending school in his hometown and in Graudenz, Herbert Krüger, who was born in Schneidemühl, turned to studying art history and geography at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen , which he obtained in 1929 with the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed. Herbert Krüger, who was employed as a wood, miner and metal worker from 1921 to 1923, subsequently took on a position as a scientific assistant at the Geographical Institute of the University of Göttingen.

In 1933 he moved to the post of director of the municipal antiquities collection , which he held until 1936. In 1938 he was appointed director of the Oberhessisches Museum and the Gail collections in Gießen, a position which, apart from an interruption between 1942 and 1948, he held until he retired in 1968. Herbert Krüger died in Fürstenfeldbruck in 1996 at the old age of 93.

Publications

• Höxter and Corvey. A contribution to urban geography, Regensbergsche Buchdruckerei, Münster iW, 1931
• Palaeolithic in Upper Hesse: Dedicated to Otto Kunkel, who was highly deserving of prehistoric research in his Upper Hesse homeland, on his sixtieth birthday (July 14, 1955), Röhrscheid, Bonn, 1956
• The Stade itinerary by Abbot Albert from around 1250, Stade, 1958
• The Nuremberg master Erhard Etzlaub's oldest road maps of Germany, In: Yearbook for Franconian research. - ed. from the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 18, 1958
• On the status of the Paleolithic research in the Rhine-Main area, In: The Ice Age in the Rhine-Main Area, 1962, pp. 127-160
• Upper German mileage discs of the 16th and 17th centuries as street history sources, In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. - ed. from the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Vol. 23, 1963, pp. 171–197
• Hessian old streets of the 16th and 17th centuries based on contemporary itineraries and maps, 1500-1650, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, 1963

literature

• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? Das deutsche Who's Who, Volume 16 ,, Arani, Berlin, 1970 ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 700.
• Oberhessischer Geschichtsverein: Mitteilungen, 1977, p. 1.
• Lothar Friedrich Zotz (Ed.): Quaternary, volumes 47-48, Röhrscheid, Bonn, 1997, p. 205.