Herbert Mitscha-Märheim

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Herbert Mitscha-Märheim (born February 7, 1900 in Vienna ; † December 8, 1976 in Vienna ) was an Austrian prehistoric , medieval archaeologist and landowner.

Life

Mitscha-Märheim studied Austrian history and prehistory at the University of Vienna from the winter semester 1918/19 and received his doctorate in December 1922. In 1924 he was appointed head of the cultural studies department of the Lower Austrian State Museum, but had to give up this job in 1927 and take over his father's estate . The scientific activity that he pursued since his studies was sustained and produced some important journalistic fruits. In 1951 Mitscha completed his habilitation with a study on "The Origin of the Baiern" for non-Roman archeology of the 1st millennium in Central Europe .

Mitscha-Märheim published around 160 scientific studies. His book Dark Centuries of Golden Traces , published in 1963, is regarded as his main work and is still an unsurpassed textbook for those interested in early history today.

At a young age, Mitscha also explored the vicinity of his home town of Mistelbach in the Weinviertel and kept his collections in Ebendorf Castle. These museum holdings were almost entirely destroyed after the end of the war in 1945.

Mitscha-Märheim was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards. Of particular note is the Cross of Honor for Science and Art awarded by the Federal President in 1970.

His student Herwig Friesinger was able to successfully continue the weighty and trend-setting legacy to the present day. Together with his teacher, Friesinger also published some studies and was very helpful to the researcher, who was almost blind in the last years of his life, also in human terms.

Awards

Works

  • Grave finds from the Voraunjetitz period from Mistelbach , Wiener Prehistorische Zeitschrift 13, 1926.
  • The Oberleiserberg , Ebendorf 1937.
  • Three Early Bronze Age depot finds from the Mistelbach district , Archaeologia Austriaca 7, 1950.
  • The Germanic cremation cemetery on Galgengrund in Mistelbach , Archaeologia Austriaca 19/20, 1956.
  • The Avar cemetery in Leithaprodersdorf , 1957.
  • The prehistoric and early historical settlement of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel , communications from the Austrian Working Group for Prehistory and Early History XIII, Vienna 1962, pp. 35ff.
  • Dark centuries of golden traces (The Migration Period in Austria) , Vienna 1963.
  • The excavations in the Wallburg "Schanze" in Thunau near Gars, Lower Austria. , Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation XXII, 1968, p. 48ff. (with Herwig Friesinger).
  • A little story from Ebendorf near Mistelbach, Lower Austria. , Horn 1971.
  • On the history of the elderly Liechtensteiners and their property in Lower Austria , yearbook of the Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft "Adler", 1971/74, 3rd episode, volume 8, p. 19ff.
  • Germanic tribes on the middle Danube Limes , The Romans on the Danube, Noricum and Pannonia, Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Museum, New Series 55, Petronell 1973, p. 117ff. (with Herwig Friesinger ).
  • The medieval buildings on the Mistelbacher Krichenberg , in Mistelbach Geschichte, Volume I, 1974, p. 83ff.

literature

  • Jan Filip , Encyclopedic Handbook on Prehistory and Early History of Europe 2, Prague 1969, p. 829.
  • Walter Goldinger , Herbert Mitscha-Märheim died , Adler, Zeitschrift für Genealogie und Heraldik 11 (XXV), 1977–1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry about Ebendorf Castle at Lower Austria Burgen online - Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, University of Salzburg
personal data
SURNAME Mitscha-Märheim, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1976
Place of death Vienna