Johannes Deichmüller

Johannes Victor Deichmüller (also Johannes Viktor Deichmüller , born April 14, 1854 in Dresden ; † November 3, 1944 ibid) was a German prehistorian and paleontologist .

Life

Johannes Victor Deichmüller attended the Royal Saxon Polytechnic in Dresden after completing his schooling .

Deichmüller was a student of Hanns Bruno Geinitz , the director of the Mineralogical-Geological and Prehistoric Museum in Dresden, who introduced him to the Natural Science Society ISIS as early as 1874 .

In 1877 Deichmüller was appointed as a research assistant and in 1879 as the first senior research assistant for the prehistoric collections. Here he worked until September 30, 1923 as curator at the museum and state curator for the antiquities of the past.

Deichmüller, who in the first decade of his activity mainly worked on palaeontological topics, later concentrated entirely on prehistoric research in Saxony and is considered to be a pioneer of Saxon regional archeology. According to his memorandum to the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior in 1897, he was commissioned to inventory the Saxon archaeological cultural assets. In terms of content, his memorandum corresponded to the requirement for a permit for excavations, an obligation to report accidental excavations, an inventory of all monuments and the establishment of a state central office for such matters, and pointed the way for the development of the Saxon Monument Protection Act.

In 1900 the “Royal Archive of Prehistoric Finds in Saxony” was founded, which Deichmüller was responsible for setting up and managing. A year later he sent 5405 questionnaires across Saxony to authorities, clergy, teachers, associations, museums, schools and owners of private collections with the request for archaeological find reports. This action, with which Deichmüller was able to fill the archive extensively due to the numerous feedback, marks the origin of the systematic recording of archaeological monuments in Saxony.

In the Saxon Folklore , published by Robert Wuttke for the first time in 1900, he worked on the prehistoric times of Saxony.

Johannes Deichmüller worked for 30 years from 1882 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1920 as secretary, for many years as section chairman of the prehistory and in 1913 for two years as chairman of the natural science society ISIS Dresden.

Deichmüller, who in 1899 received the title of professor in honor of his many years of service at the museum, was appointed Royal Saxon Councilor in 1903.

On April 16, 1891, Johannes Victor Deichmüller was admitted to the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation no. 2911 ) .

In 1902 he became an honorary member of the Society for Anthropology and Prehistory of Upper Lusatia (Görlitz / Bautzen), in 1923 an honorary member of the Natural Science Society ISIS Dresden and in 1939 an honorary member of the Saxon Society for Prehistory.

In 1886 he was awarded the Royal Saxon Order of Merit II. Class, in 1909 the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Albrecht and in 1944 the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

The permanent exhibition “Prehistoric Collections” designed by him in the wall pavilion of the Dresden Zwinger was completely destroyed in 1944.

Fonts

• Fossil insects from the diatom slate from Kutschlin near Bilin, Bohemia . Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, 42, 6, Halle 1881 Digitized
• with Hanns Bruno Geinitz: Supplements to Dyas II. Communications from the Royal Mineralogical-Geological and Prehistoric Museum in Dresden, 5, Fischer, Kassel and Berlin 1882 digitized
• Supplements to Dyas III. Branchiosaurus petrolei Gaudry sp. from the lower Dyas of Autun, Oberhof and Niederhäßlich . Messages from the royal mineralogical-geological and prehistoric museum in Dresden, 6, Fischer, Kassel 1884 digitized
• The insects from the lithographic slate in the Dresden Museum . Messages from the royal mineralogical-geological and prehistoric museum in Dresden, 7, Fischer, Cassel 1886 digitized
• Prehistoric finds in Nerchau-Trebsen in Saxony . Messages from the royal mineralogical-geological and prehistoric museum in Dresden, 10, Fischer, Cassel 1892 digitized
• The burial ground on the Bone Mountains near Niederrödern, Saxony . Messages from the royal mineralogical-geological and prehistoric museum in Dresden, 12, Fischer, Cassel 1897 digitized

literature

• Rüdiger Schlosske: Johannes Deichmüller . PDF

Web links

• Member entry of Johannes Müller dike at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• German digital library: Johannes Deichmüller
• Kalliope network: Deichmüller, Johannes Viktor (1854–1944)
• Deichmüller, Johannes in the German biography
• Literature by and about Johannes Deichmüller in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 27th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1891, p. 62 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).