Johannes Mager

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Johannes Mager (* 1925 in Dresden ; † April 5, 2015 in Dresden) was a German art scholar , journalist and author . The focus of his scientific work was salt and salt production .

Life

Johannes Mager studied mechanical engineering at the engineering schools in Aue, Dresden and Leipzig. From 1944 to 1947 he was in military service and in Soviet captivity, from which he was released as a dystrophic .

From 1949 he studied pedagogy with a focus on natural sciences, followed by external studies at the Dresden University of Technology (history of architecture) and at the universities in Leipzig and Halle (art history, archeology, German studies). 1978 was skimmed at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg on the Electorate of Saxony Saline beings to Dr. phil. PhD .

Mager was versatile and scientifically active on a fee basis, for example for the Halloren and Salinemuseum in Halle, the office for architecture-related art and monument preservation in Leipzig, the Institute for Monument Preservation Halle and the Institute for Welding Technology Halle. From 1993 he worked for the Munich Academic Center and from 1995 worked for the Bavarian salt exhibition "Salt Makes History" in the House of Bavarian History .

Publications (selection)

  • Bad Sülze - history of the former saltworks of the brine bath in northern Germany. Ed .: Association "Life in the Bad Sülze District" eV, Kückenshagen 1997, ISBN 3-929370-68-9
  • Salt, God preserve it. Halloren- und Salinemuseum, Halle 1993
  • Johann Gottfried Borlach . A biography on the occasion of his 300th birthday. Ed .: Technisches Halloren- und Salinemuseum Halle and Council of the City of Bad Dürrenberg, Halle 1990, 58 pages
  • Mill wing and water wheel. Leipzig 1990, 2nd edition.
  • The cultural history of the mills. Tübingen 1989 and Leipzig 1988
  • Cultural history of the Halle saltworks. Hall 1988
  • The Kosen saltworks. Bad Kosen 1987
  • Monuments of machine and grading technology in the former Saxon area and the adjacent areas. Doctoral thesis Halle 1978

as well as numerous articles in scientific publications.

literature

  • Uwe Meißner (Ed.): "But above all I praise the granulated snow ...". Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Johannes Mager. 136 pages, Halle 1996 (including a list of all journal articles by Johannes Mager)

as well as the biography and bibliography of Johannes Mager from page 125 in:

  • Johannes Mager: On salty tracks I - grazing lights from Bavaria and Saxony - essays. Verlag André Gursky, Halle 2005, 144 pages, A5 format, ISBN 3-929389-46-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gradierwerk-bad-koesen.de/aktuelles.html
  2. ↑ http://www.spektrum.de/magazin/salz-macht-geschichte-ausstellung-ueber-ein-scheinbar-unscheinbaren-mineral/822423
  3. ↑ Johannes Mager: On salty traces I - Streiflichter from Bavaria and Saxony - essays. Verlag André Gursky, Halle (Saale) 2005, from page 125, ISBN 3-929389-46-0
  4. ↑ DNB 790939614
personal data
SURNAME Lean, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2015
Place of death Dresden