Horst Keiling

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Horst Keiling (born July 28, 1934 in Dresden ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

Horst Keiling passed his Abitur in 1953 and began studying history and prehistory at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). In 1957 he passed the diploma examination and was then research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the HUB until 1958, in 1958/59 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and from 1959 at the Museum for Prehistory and Early History in Schwerin . 1961 to 1964 Keiling was an unscheduled scientific aspirant. The doctorate took place in December 1964 with a thesis on the subject of the pre-Roman iron age in the Elde-Karthane area , reviewers were Karl-Heinz Otto and Paul Grimm . The PhD B followed in December 1984 at the HUB with the thesis Basics of the culture and settlement development in Mecklenburg during the pre-Roman iron and early Roman imperial times. Summary of the results from 5 monographs and 55 papers , reviewers were Heinz Grünert , Joachim Herrmann and Bruno Krüger .

Keiling, who was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), became director of the Schwerin Museum for Prehistory and Early History on January 15, 1981, succeeding Ewald Schuldt . He published the yearbook for the maintenance of historical monuments in Mecklenburg . Since September 1987 he has been teaching as an honorary professor for prehistory at the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock , where he remained a lecturer until 2001. In 1992 he retired as museum director and head of the State Office for Land Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Fonts

  • A burial place from the younger Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron Age from Lanz, Ludwigslust district , Petermänken, Schwerin 1962
  • The pre-Roman Iron Age in the Elde-Karthane area (district of Perleberg and district of Ludwigslust) , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1969
  • The state-protected soil antiquities of the Schwerin district , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971
  • Kolbow. An urn cemetery from the pre-Roman Iron Age in the Ludwigslust district , DVW, Berlin 1974 (contributions to the prehistory and early history of the Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts, vol. 8)
  • On prehistoric and early historical research and conservation in the western Prignitz area , In: Informations des Bezirksfachausschuss Schwerin, No. 18, Schwerin 1978, pp. 5-15.
  • Glövzin. An urn cemetery from the pre-Roman Iron Age in the Perleberg district , DVW, Berlin 1979 (contributions to the prehistory and early history of the Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts, vol. 12)
  • Archaeological finds from the Late Paleolithic to the Pre-Roman Iron Age from the Mecklenburg districts , Museum for Ur- u. Early history, Schwerin 1982 (archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 1)
  • Old graves and fortifications. Soil monuments from Mecklenburg , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1983 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 2)
  • Archaeological finds from the early Roman Empire to the Middle Ages from the Mecklenburg districts , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1984 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 3)
  • Stone Age hunters and gatherers in Mecklenburg , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1985 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 4)
  • Archaeological witnesses of the Neolithic farming population of Mecklenburg , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1986 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 5)
  • Parum, District of Hagenow - a Longobard cemetery of the 1st century , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1986 (material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Mecklenburg, vol. 1)
  • The cultures of the Mecklenburg Bronze Age , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1987 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 6)
  • Archaeological Open Air Museum Gross Raden , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1988 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 7)
  • 35 years of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History Schwerin , Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1989 (Archaeological finds and monuments from the north of the GDR, vol. 8)
  • On the history and archeology of the Germanic peoples between the Rhine and the Oder around the turn of the times (Ed. With Werner Budesheim ), FLA, Wentorf 2003 (contributions for science and culture, vol. 6) ISBN 3-00-012707-0
  • On Archeology in Northern Germany (Ed. With Werner Budesheim), FLA, Wentorf 2006 (Contributions to Science and Culture, Vol. 7) ISBN 978-3-00-019244-9

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 365.
  • Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Publications by Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Horst Keiling , Schwerin (bibliography). In: Werner Budesheim (Ed.): Searching, collecting, sifting - for research on prehistory and early history in Northern Germany, FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HORST KEILING, Free Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture (Articles for Science and Culture, Volume 11), Wentorf near Hamburg, 2014, pp. 162–197.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History . In: Schweriner Volkszeitung from January 16, 1981, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Keiling, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden