Johann Baptist Keune

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Johann Baptist Keune (born November 27, 1858 in Trier ; † January 12, 1937 there ) was a German teacher, museum director and archaeologist.

Life

Johann Baptist Keune studied classical studies in Marburg , Bonn and Vienna . From 1889 to 1892 he worked in Trier as a high school teacher and as a voluntary worker in the provincial museum. In 1883 he went to the grammar school in Metz - Montigny as a senior teacher , where he taught until 1899. In 1896 he was also part-time director of the Metz Museum, and since 1899 he was the full-time museum director. In 1906 Keune received the title of professor. During the First World War he was the art protection officer between the Meuse and the Vosges. After the war he was expelled from the new French administration in 1919. In the following years Keune was a volunteer at the Provincial Museum Trier and in the Society for Useful Research in Trier , of which he had been a member since 1891. From 1923 he was in charge of the common library. From 1926 until his death he was a board member of the company. Since 1929 he was an honorary member of the Trierisch Association . He contributed over 1500 articles to Paulys Realencyclopadie der Classischen Antiquity ( RE ).

The Keuneweg in Trier (since 1959) and the Keune elementary school in the Kürenz district are named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Metz. A tour of the city with a special focus on its history and collections. Lupus, Metz 1907.
  • Metz, its surroundings and the battlefields near Metz. Guide for the participants in the General Assembly of Catholics of Germany. Even, Metz 1913.
  • Pfalzel on the Moselle. History and leader. Hoffmeister, Trier 1927.
  • with RP Weber: Guide through Trier and its churches with their shrines. Paulinus-Druckerei, Trier 1933 (also English, French and Dutch editions).

literature

  • Harald Baulig: Bibliography Johann Baptist Keune. In: Trier magazine 40/41, 1977/78, pp. 308-345.
  • Heinz Heinen: Johann Baptist Keune (1858–1937) . In: Trier magazine 40/41, 1977/78, pp. 303-307.
  • Jürgen Merten: Johann Baptist Keune (1858-1937), a Trier and his hometown. In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1983, pp. 51–60.
  • Jürgen Merten: Johann Baptist Keune . In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon . Trier 2000, p. 218.
  • Isabelle Bardiès: Le "Professor" Keune, conservateur allemand dans la guerre. In: De la frontière au front. Un point de vue allemand: campagnes photographiques, 1914-1917.  : Metz 2003, pp. 15-21.
  • Julien Trapp, L'archéologie à Metz. Institutions, pratiques et results. Des travaux de Johann Baptist Keune à l'archéologie préventive (1896–2008), Thèse de Doctorat, Université de Lorraine, 2012.
  • Julien Trapp et Jürgen Merten, “Johann Baptist Keune (1858–1937) - an archaeologist from the Moselle region in Metz and Trier”, In: Finds and excavations in the Trier district , 44, 2012, pp. 80–98.
  • Julien Trapp and Jürgen Merten, “Johann Baptist Keune (1858–1937) entre France et Allemagne. Un archéologue mosellan victime de la Grande Guerre », In: Revue historique , 671, 2014, pp. 527-546.

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Baptist Keune  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See. Complete directory of Keunes articles (with numerous full-text digital copies) in the online version of RE at Wikisource .
personal data
SURNAME Keune, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, museum director and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1937
Place of death trier