Jürgen Thimme

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Jürgen Thimme (born September 26, 1917 in Berlin ; † August 7, 2010 ) was a German classical archaeologist .

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Jürgen Thimme, son of the historian Friedrich Thimme , served in the Navy from 1937 after graduating from high school and subsequent labor service . On April 3, 1937, he was an officer cadet , on May 1, 1938 Midshipman , on July 1, 1939 midshipman at sea, on August 1, 1939 Ensign and on September 1, 1941 Lieutenant . Thimme was the first commander of the submarine U 276 from December 9, 1942 to October 19, 1943, and from February 13, 1945 to May 8, 1945, the commander of U 716 . From 1945 to 1947 he was a prisoner of war.

From 1947 Thimme studied classical archeology and art history in Göttingen and in 1955 he was awarded with his dissertation “Chiusin ash boxes and sarcophagi of the Hellenistic period. A contribution to the chronology of Etruscan art ”to the Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg and at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Erlangen .

From March 1, 1959 until his retirement in 1982, Thimme was head of the antiques department of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ; he was the first archaeologist in this position. He significantly expanded the collection of antiquities through numerous new acquisitions; According to the customs of the time, mainly through the art trade and without questions about the provenance , so that the majority of the items were objects from robbery excavations . In 1974 he designed the exhibition "Picasso and Antiquity". He was particularly interested in the cultures of the Cyclades and Sardinia . His catalog of the exhibition "Art of the Cyclades", which opened in June 1976, with 581 objects of Cycladic culture and in particular of the Cycladic idols is considered a standard work. Thimme was honorary professor for classical archeology at the University of Heidelberg .

Thimme died in 2010 at the age of 92 after a long illness; his urn was buried in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe .

He was married to the Germanist and author Ulrike Thimme (* 1923), née Schauer; the couple's son was the RAF terrorist Johannes Thimme . His younger sister was the historian Annelise Thimme ; his older brother the German-American art historian and archaeologist Diether Thimme .

Fonts (selection)

  • Early sculpture from Sardinia , Wiesbaden, Insel-Verlag 1956
  • Ancient terracottas. A selection from the holdings of the Badisches Landesmuseum (picture booklets of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 5), Karlsruhe, CF Müller 1960
  • Early marginal cultures of the Mediterranean: Cyclades, Cyprus, Malta, Old Syria (Art of the World, Volume 28), Baden-Baden, Holle 1968
  • Greek vases. A selection from the holdings of the Badisches Landesmuseum (picture books of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 1a) Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum 1969, 4th edition 1975
  • Phoenician ivory. Furniture decorations of the 9th century BC A selection from the holdings of the Badisches Landesmuseum (picture booklets of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe) Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum 1973
  • Art and culture of the Cyclades islands in the 3rd millennium BC Exhibition in Karlsruhe Palace from June 25th - October 10th 1976 , Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum 1976, ISBN 3788095687
  • Old Sardinian art. Art and culture of Sardinia from the Neolithic to the end of the Nuragic period (picture books of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe) Karlsruhe, CF Müller 1980
  • Art of the Sardinians until the end of the Nuragic period . Elie Borowski collection with photos by Albert Hirmer and Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer. Prehistoric State Collection Munich. Munich, Hirmer-Verlag 1983, ISBN 3-7774-3640-2 ; ISBN 3-7774-3630-5
  • Ancient masterpieces in Karlsruhe Palace. A selection of the most beautiful antiques in the Badisches Landesmuseum , Karlsruhe 1986, ISBN 3-7880-9733-7

literature

  • Dieter Metzler , Brinna Otto , Christoph Müller-Wirth (eds.): Antidoron. Festschrift for Jürgen Thimme on his 65th birthday on September 26, 1982 , Karlsruhe, Müller 1983 ISBN 3-7880-9676-4 (with portrait and list of publications, pp. 15–16)
  • Michael Hübl: Sensible confrontation. On the death of the Karlsruhe art historian Jürgen Thimme , in: Badische Latest Nachrichten No. 184 of Thursday, August 12, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Dresch: "Tabular Chronicle of the Badisches Landesmuseums" ( MS Word ; 166 kB), see there the entry for the year 1959 (accessed on August 14, 2010)
  2. ↑ "Thimme, Johannes" in the personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg (accessed on August 14, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Thimme, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thimme, Jürgen Otto Ernst Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist, museum employee and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2010