Jan Willem Crous

Jan Willem Crous (born August 8, 1902 ; † missing since January 1, 1945 near Meseritz ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Jan Willem Crous received his doctorate in February 1928 under Ludwig Curtius at the University of Heidelberg with the thesis Florentiner Waffenpfeiler und Armilustrium . He followed his teacher to the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute , where he had been the first full-time librarian since April 1, 1929. The concordance he made to the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum , which was published in 1942, was of particular importance for many years . Even when many other colleagues turned away from them, Crous stuck to his former Jewish colleagues, such as Hermine Speierafter they were dismissed under the German race laws in the mid-1930s and after the Italian race laws of 1938 they were even further troubled. In January and February 1944 he had to pack the library in Rome, after various intermediate stops the 1,500 boxes in three railway wagons found their temporary refuge in the salt mine of Alt-Aussee near Salzburg in August and September of that year and were under the direction of Armin von Gerkan and Crous stored. He then worked for a short time in the secondary office of the Roman Institute at Niederhof Castle near Greifswald , before he was drafted in December 1944 and died as a soldier shortly before the end of the Second World War .

Fonts

• Florentine weapon pillar and armilustrium. In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department . Volume 48, 1933, pp. 1-119 (= dissertation).
• Concordance with the corpus vasorum antiquorum. Bretschneider, Rome 1942.

literature

• Horst Blanck : The library of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, pp. 26–29 plates 2, 4 (portrait)
• Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute 1929 to 1979. Part 1, Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, pp. 4–12
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 333.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Willem Crous in the catalog of the German National Library