Jan Kees Haalebos

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Jan Kees Haalebos (born July 12, 1942 in Hilversum , † March 6, 2001 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch Provincial Roman archaeologist of international reputation , classical philologist and university lecturer .

Life and work up to doctorate

Jan Kees Haalebos was born on July 12, 1942 in Hilversum as the son of a piano teacher and a children's book illustrator and grew up in Heiloo since 1947 . He attended the Murmellius grammar school in Alkmaar . During this time Jan Kees Halebos showed great interest in the ancient relics of his surroundings. He founded the Association for Historical Research in North Holland and spent his free time doing archaeological explorations and observations. At the age of seventeen in 1959 he published in the archaeological journal Westerheem on an archaeological topic. After his military service, he began studying archeology and classical philology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the winter semester of 1963 . There he met Annigje Westra, whom he married in 1970 and with whom he had three daughters Chaia, Sanne and Merit.
Between 1969 and 1970 he studied at the University of Bonn under Géza Alföldy (Latin epigraphy ) and Harald von Petrikovits (provincial Roman archeology). During this time he made good and lasting contacts with the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . When he returned to Amsterdam, he became a research assistant to Willem Glasbergen , under whom he played a key role in the excavations in the Roman auxiliary fort Nigrum Pullum (1969–1972). With a thesis on this subject, he received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1973 .

Work until his death

As early as 1970, Haalebos had become Jules Bogaers' research assistant at Katolieke Universiteit Nijmegen , today's Radboud University . With this he carried out numerous Roman provincial excavations in Nijmegen (see below), Woerden and Alphen aan den Rijn . From the University, he was appointed lecturer ( Universiteit Hoofddocent () and associate professor associate professor appointed). After Bogaers retired in 1991 , he took over his chair , initially only as an associate professor due to funding cuts, and then as a full professor from 1995. Under these difficult conditions, Halebos carried out the longest and most extensive excavation on the Hunerberg to date . A total area of ​​3.5 hectares was examined, on which the legion camp of the Legio X Gemina and their camp village were. Until 1997 he personally edited hundreds of field drawings and inventoried thousands of finds. The most important excavation results were regularly published in the Numaga magazine .

As a professor he created four assistant positions for doctoral students and, as a committed representative of his subject, knew how to motivate employees and students. In addition, with his eloquent and enthusiastic manner, he was able to inspire a wider audience for the interests of archeology. At the center of his work were the Roman sites of Nijmegen, the ancient Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum and its garrison sites on the Hunerberg and the Kops plateau . Since the city of Nijmegen set up its own archaeological service for the university on site, no further research was possible, so from 1999 he devoted himself to the Roman military camps in Romania , where he used geophysical methods to determine the layout of the Tihau fort . Encouraged by the success, he conceived the plan to investigate further Romanian forts in this way, as he expected their destruction by a coming intensification of agriculture. In 2000 the Romita fort followed . In his own country he devoted himself to researching the Roman border fortifications in the western Netherlands . In 1999 he was able to provide definitive evidence of the Roman castles Albaniana and Laurium .

Death and consequences for the Roman provincial archeology in Nijmegen

On March 7, 2001, Jan Kees Haalebos was suddenly and unexpectedly torn from life at the age of only 58 and at the zenith of his work. Many projects were not completed or could no longer be initiated. His planned participation in a large-volume historical work on Nijmegen also did not materialize. After his death, the chair for Provincial Roman Archeology at the Radboud University was held by Michael Erdrich until 2008 and then canceled.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Jules Bogaers : Een Schildknop uit Zwammerdam - Nigrum Pullum, acc. Alphen (Z.-H.) . In: Helinium, 10 (1970), No. 3, pp. 242-249.
  • with Johan Hendrik Frederik Bloemers : Roman pottery finds in Heerlen, Province of Limburg . Reports van de Rijksdienst voor het oudheidkundig bodemonderzoek = Proceedings of the State Service for Archeological Investigations in the Netherlands, 23 (1973), pp. 259-272.
  • with Jules Bogaers: Problems rond het Kops Plateau . Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 56 (1975), pp. 127-178.
  • with Jules Bogaers: The Nijmegen legion camp since 70 AD . In: Dorothea Haupt and Heinz Günter Horn (Red.): Studies on the military borders of Rome II. Lectures of the 10th international Limes congress in the Germania Inferior Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0270-3 , p. 93– 108
  • Zwammerdam - Nigrum Pullum. An auxiliary fort on the Lower Germanic Limes . Universiteit van Amsterdam, Subfaculteit der Pre- en Protohistorie, Amsterdam 1977.
  • with Jules Bogaers: Aan de grens van Ulpia Noviomagus. Opgravingen in Nijmegen-West (Bronsgeeststraat, Dijkstraat, 1985) . Numaga, 33, pp. 1-10 (1986).
  • Fibulae uit Maurik . Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden 1986.
  • Excavations in Woerden (1975–1982) . In: Studies on the military borders of Rome III. 13th International Limes Congress, Aalen 1983 . Research and reports on prehistory and early history in Baden-Württemberg 20, 1986, pp. 169–174.
  • Een Romeins schip te Woerden . In HR Reinders (ed.): Raakvlakken tussen Scheeparcheologie, Maritieme Geschiedenis en Scheepsbouwkunde . Lelystad, 1987, pp. 25-28.
  • News from Noviomagus . In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt , Volume 20, 1990, pp. 193-200 ( PDF; 890 KB ).
  • with Allard W. Mees and Marinus Polak: Terra-Sigillata of the first century decorated by potters and factories . In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 21 (1991), Issue 1, pp. 79-91.
  • Castra and Canabae. Excavations on the Hunerberg in Nijmegen, 1987–1994 . Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen 1995.
  • The Roman ship of Woerden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) . DEGUWA-Rundbrief, 11, 1996, pp. 9-13.
  • Een romeins graanschip in Woerden . In Jaarboek Oud-Utrecht , 1997, ISSN  0923-7046 , pp. 67-96.
  • The canabae of the Legio X Gemina in Nijmegen . Annual report Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa (1997), ISSN  0072-4270 , pp. 33-40, ( also digitized as a Word document ).
  • with Willem JH Willems : Recent research on the limes in the Netherlands Journal of Roman Archeology 12 (1999), pp. 247-262.
  • The economic importance of the Nijmegen legionary camp and its canabae . In: Thomas Grünewald (Ed.): Germania inferior. Settlement, society and economy on the border of the Roman-Germanic world (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , supplementary volume 28). De Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016969-0 , pp. 464-479.
  • Woerden Laurium. A first inventory of the opgravingen in the city center . KUN afd. Provinciaal-Romeinse archeologie, Nijmegen 1998.
  • Traian and the auxiliary troops on the Lower Rhine. A military diploma from AD 98 from Elst in the Over-Betuwe (Netherlands) . Saalburg-Jahrbuch 50 (2000), pp. 31-72.
  • with Harry van Enckevort and Jan Thijssen: Nijmegen. Legerplaats en stad in the achterland van de Romeinse limes . Uitgeverij Uniepers Abcoude, Mijmegen 2000.
  • The earliest occupancy of the Hunerberg in Nijmegen . In: PWM Freeman et al. (Ed.): Limes XVIII, Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000) . Oxford 2002, pp. 403-414.

literature

  • Marinus Polak: Jan Kees Haalebos. Hilversum 9 july 1942 - Nijmegen 6 maart 2001 . In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (2001), pp. 90-94, ( also digitized from dbnl.org, digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren, ( Dutch ), accessed on May 5, 2018).
  • Obituary for Jan Kees Haalebos . In: Thomas von Grünewald and Sandra Seibel (eds.): Continuity and Discontinuity. Germania inferior at the beginning and at the end of Roman rule. Contributions to the German-Dutch colloquium at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (June 27 to 30, 2001) . Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, supplementary volume 35, De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2003, p. 9f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos: Enkele vuurstolpen uit Alkmaar en omgeving . Westerheem, Tweemaandelijks Orgaan van de Archaeologische Werkgemeenschap voor Westelijk Nederland, Vol. 8, Iss. 9-10 (1959), pp. 85-88,.
  2. ^ A b Jan Kees Haalebos: Zwammerdam - Nigrum Pullum. An auxiliary fort on the Lower Germanic Limes. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Subfaculteit der Pre- en Protohistorie, Amsterdam 1977.
  3. ^ Marinus Polak: Jan Kees Haalebos. Hilversum 9 july 1942 - Nijmegen 6 maart 2001 . In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (2001), p. 90, ( also digitized from dbnl.org, digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren, ( Dutch ), accessed on May 5, 2018).
  4. ↑ a b c d Obituary for Jan Kees Haalebos . In: Thomas von Grünewald and Sandra Seibel (eds.): Continuity and Discontinuity. Germania inferior at the beginning and at the end of Roman rule. Contributions to the German-Dutch colloquium at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (June 27 to 30, 2001) . Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, supplementary volume 35, De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2003, p. 9f.
  5. ^ Julianus Egidius Bogaers and Jan Kees Haalebos: Op zoek naar een castellum in Woerden . In Spiegel Historiael , Vol. 18, ISSN  0038-7487 , pp. 302-309.
  6. ^ Julianus Egidius Bogaers and Jan Kees Haalebos: Opgravingen te Woerden in 1983 . In: Heemtijdinghen 20, 1984, pp 49-50.
  7. ^ Julianus Egidius Bogaers and Jan Kees Haalebos: Opgravingen in Woerden in 1984 . In: Heemtijdinghen 22, 1986, pp. 24-27. Also published in: Holland 18, 1986, pp. 321–322.
  8. ^ Marinus Polak: Jan Kees Haalebos. Hilversum 9 july 1942 - Nijmegen 6 maart 2001 . In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (2001), p. 93., ( also digitized from dbnl.org, digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren, ( Dutch ), accessed on May 5, 2018).
  9. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos: News from Noviomagus . In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt , Volume 20, 1990, pp. 193-200 ( PDF; 890 KB ).
  10. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos: Castra and Canabae. Excavations on the Hunerberg in Nijmegen, 1987-1994 . Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen 1995.
  11. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos: The canabae of the Legio X Gemina in Nijmegen . Annual report Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa (1997), ISSN  0072-4270 , pp. 33-40, ( also digitized as a Word document ).
  12. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos: The economic importance of the Nijmegen legion camp and its canabae . In: Thomas Grünewald (Ed.): Germania inferior. Settlement, society and economy on the border of the Roman-Germanic world (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , supplementary volume 28). De Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016969-0 , pp. 464-479.
  13. ^ A b Marinus Polak: Jan Kees Haalebos. Hilversum 9 july 1942 - Nijmegen 6 maart 2001 . In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (2001), pp. 90-94, ( also digitized from dbnl.org, digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren, ( Dutch ), accessed on May 5, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Haalebos, Jan Kees
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilversum
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2001
Place of death Nijmegen