Jürgen Driehaus

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Jürgen Driehaus (born July 23, 1927 in Osnabrück , † December 29, 1986 in Nuremberg ) was a German prehistorian .

Life

From 1934 to 1947 he attended elementary school and grammar school in Osnabrück - interrupted by military service in World War II . From 1948 to 1953 he then studied Prehistory, Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the Universities of Münster , Tübingen , Marburg and Munich . After completing his doctorate on the Altheim Group , he worked at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in Munich from August 1953 to October 1954 . He then traveled to the Middle East in 1954/55 as a fellow of the Roman-Germanic Commission . After his return he was from mid-November 1955 to the end of 1961 a research assistant and speaker at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz . Already here he turned to technical questions in connection with archaeological finds.

He then moved to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn , where he was employed from January 1962 to October 1968. Here he set up the Prehistoric Display Collection for the reopening of the museum, which took place in July 1967. Until 1966, he was also responsible for the archaeological survey of the state (especially for the Bergheim (Erft) and Kempen-Krefeld districts ), advising the workshops and laboratories and taking care of the prehistory department. His interest in the application of scientific and technical processes in archeology resulted in the establishment of an X-ray laboratory at the museum and a fundamental work on the subject of "Archaeological Radiography ".

After moving from Bonn to the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Göttingen , he completed his habilitation in 1972 on the prince's grave in Waldalgesheim and worked as a lecturer in Göttingen . His teaching activities focused on the pre-Roman metal ages and chronological issues. In accordance with his overarching specialist interests, he also held seminars and exercises on the subjects of cultural studies and the public, editing and organizing scientific work, exhibition technology, finding and describing finds. In addition, he worked on an interdisciplinary basis with the natural science and education faculties and was involved in the field of study reform.

Since the early 1970s, he and his wife had owned a farmhouse above Lake Bolsena not far from Monte Bisenzo in Lazio in central Italy . In the ancient city of Visentum (Bisenzio) they carried out extensive field inspections between 1975 and 1982 in collaboration with the Italian prehistorians Renato Peroni and Francesco di Gennaro. This resulted in a posthumously published study. They also got involved in nature conservation and monument protection in the region. Here he also met the writer Peter Rühmkorf , with whom he became friends.

Since 1983/84 he suffered from throat cancer . In the winter semester 1983/84 he gave his last lecture and in the summer semester 1985 he led his last seminar as well as an excursion to southern and central England , during which he became seriously ill. At the end of the 1985 summer semester, he had to take sick retirement, which he spent in Nuremberg and Italy.

He died on December 29, 1986 at the age of 59 in the Erlangen-Nuremberg University Hospital.

Jürgen Driehaus was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Altheim Group and the Young Neolithic in Central Europe. Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 1960.
  • Archaeological Radiography (= Archaeo-Physika. 4, ZDB -ID 400876-5 ). Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1968.
  • Ricerche su un insediamento arcaico a Monte Bisenzo. In: Studi Etruschi. 53, 1985, ISSN  0391-7762 , pp. 51-64.

literature

  • Frank M. Andraschko, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (ed.): Commemorative publication for Jürgen Driehaus. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1133-8 , foreword, pp. VII – X.
  • Hans-Eckart Joachim : Jürgen Driehaus - died on December 29, 1986. In: Frank M. Andraschko, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (ed.): Commemorative publication for Jürgen Driehaus. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1133-8 , pp. XI – XII.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adelio Antonio Marzi: L'etrusca di città "Visentum" e le sue necropoli attraverso le Fonti bibliografiche. In: Biblioteca e società. Vol. 28, No. 4, 2009, ZDB -ID 1140226-X , pp. 24-28 .
  2. ^ Peter Rühmkorf: Letter to Jürgen Driehaus. In: Frank M. Andraschko, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (ed.): Commemorative publication for Jürgen Driehaus. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1133-8 , pp. 379-381.
personal data
SURNAME Driehaus, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1986
Place of death Nuremberg