Hermann Schwabedissen

Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Schwabedissen (born January 16, 1911 in Meierberg ; † August 6, 1994 ) was a German prehistorian .

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He attended secondary school (advanced school) in Detmold , where he passed his Abitur in 1931. He then completed a teaching degree at the universities of Hamburg , Vienna , Marburg and Kiel . In 1934 he passed the teaching examination in Hamburg . After one year of military service in Stettin and six months of school service in Elbrinxen and Rischenau , he studied prehistory and early history in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1938. In the same year he became an assistant at the Museum of Prehistoric Antiquities in Kiel. In 1940/41 he received a travel grant from the Roman-Germanic Commission . In 1942 he became head of the Anthropos Institute in Brno in the occupied Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

In 1946 he completed his habilitation in Kiel. From 1950 to 1957 he was curator at the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum in Schleswig . From 1955 he was a professor at the University of Kiel, then from 1957 professor for prehistory and early history at the University of Cologne . On his initiative, the three scientific laboratories for archaeobotany , C14 dating and dendrochronology were set up at the Cologne Institute . In 1978 he retired and was succeeded by Wolfgang Taute in Cologne . Most recently he lived in Bosau am Plöner See in Schleswig-Holstein .

The regional structure of the pen knife groups goes back to Schwabedissen (1954). He also coined the term Ertebölle-Ellerbek culture (1958). Under his direction between 1947 and 1963 the archaeological investigations in the Stone Age settlement chamber in the Satrupholmer Moor were carried out as a NDW / DFG project in several campaigns .

personal data
SURNAME	Schwabedissen, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schwabedissen, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meierberg
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1994