Hermann Müller-Karpe

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Hermann Müller-Karpe (born February 1, 1925 in Hanau , † September 20, 2013 in Marburg ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

As the son of a student councilor, Müller-Karpe worked at the Institute for Carinthian State Research in Klagenfurt after graduating from high school. In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and taken prisoner of war.

He then studied prehistory, classical archeology and art history in Marburg . There he received his doctorate in 1948 under Gero von Merhart . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel from 1948 to 1949 , and since 1950 he has been a curator at the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich . During this time he undertook excavations in Hesse and Bavaria, as well as museum trips north and south of the Alps. On the recommendation of Joachim Werner ( full professor in Munich) , he completed his habilitation in 1958 at the University of Prehistory there and became a private lecturer . His habilitation deals with the chronology of the Urnfield period north and south of the Alps . He then taught in Würzburg from 1959 and became a full professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1963 . From 1980 to 1986 he headed the newly founded Commission for General and Comparative Archeology of the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn. As director of the commission, he gave lectures, organized colloquia, founded a new journal and two series of monographs, initiated expeditions and undertook an excavation in Peru as well as several research trips to Central and South America, Russia, Siberia and to African and Asian countries.

He was a member of the German Archaeological Institute , the British Academy , the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts , the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Roman-Germanic Commission , the Conseil Permanent de l'Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriquies et Protohistoriques, the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, the Istituto di Studi Etruschi de Holici, the Swiss Society for Prehistory and the Paleological Association of Japan .

In 1996 Müller-Karpe received an honorary doctorate from the Comenius University in Bratislava .

In the context of the habilitation, important work on the late Bronze Age in Italy was created, including on the early settlement in the urban area of ​​Rome. In 1965, Müller-Karpe initiated the large edition company of the Prehistoric Bronze Finds (PBF), which continues to this day (under the direction of Albrecht Jockenhövel and Ute Luise Dietz ) at the Universities of Frankfurt a. M. and Münster will be continued.

Müller-Karpe became known in particular through large material works such as the handbook of prehistory , whereby he always represented a cultural-historical perspective combined with an isochronological approach (i.e. comparison of the absolutely simultaneous), but with rejection of the data obtained by the radiocarbon method .

Of his five children, the eldest son, Michael Müller-Karpe, is also a prehistoric at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz , while the youngest son, Andreas Müller-Karpe, is professor of prehistory at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Fonts

  • The urn field culture in the Hanauer Land. Marburg 1948
  • Grünwald graves. In: Prehistoric Journal 34/35, 1949/50, pp. 313-325.
  • Munich urn fields. Kallmünz / Opf. 1957
  • Contributions to the chronology of the Urnfield time north and south of the Alps. Roman-Germanic research 22, Berlin 1959
  • The full-grip swords from the urnfield era from Bavaria. Munich contribution. Mornings 6 Munich 1961
  • On the becoming of Rome. Mitt. DAI Rome Ergh. 8, Heidelberg 1962
  • Introduction to the prehistory. Munich 1975
  • The Kelheim urn field. Kallmünz / Opf. 1952
  • Handbook of Prehistory. Munich 1966–1980
  • Stone Age history . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-406-05356-4 .
  • Basic features of early human history. 5 vols. Theiss, Stuttgart and Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998
  • History of worship from the Paleolithic to the present. Frankfurt 2005
  • The Mount of Olives in the Siebengebirge as a Christian symbol. Königswinter 2006
  • Religious archeology. Archaeological contributions to the history of religion. Frankfurt 2008
  • On the topicality of the Christian worldview. Based on an intellectual historical view of prehistoric man. Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt 2008
  • Awakening in the Stone Age. How we became humans. Augsburg 2010

literature

  • Albrecht Jockenhövel (Ed.): Festschrift for Hermann Müller-Karpe on his 70th birthday . Bonn 1995.
  • Albrecht Jockenhövel: Hermann Müller-Karpe (1925–2013) [obituary]. In: Blickpunkt Archäologie 2/2014, p. 82f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Hohmann: The Bausch case (I). The question of the motive remains unanswered. History Association Windecken 2000
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Karpe, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2013
Place of death Marburg