Joseph Wiesner

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Joseph Wiesner (born January 25, 1913 in Liebenthal , Löwenberg district in Silesia , † November 26, 1975 in Lörrach ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Joseph Wiesner studied Classical Archeology , Assyriology , Egyptology and Ancient Religious History and received his doctorate in Breslau in 1936. In 1937/38 he held a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1939 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg , where he worked as a lecturer until 1942, and from 1943 to 1945 as a lecturer at the University of Munich . Wiesner was a member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1942 . From 1943 he worked for the Jankuhn special command set up by the SS-Ahnenerbe , which confiscated prehistoric finds in southern Russia on Heinrich Himmler's order .

After the war he worked temporarily as a teacher at the Birklehof school . From 1949 to 1950 Wiesner was a regular associate professor at the University of Halle , in 1954 he became a lecturer and finally an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg .

Wiesner did research on religion and art history of antiquity , the ancient Orient and the Eurasian horsemen .

Fonts (selection)

  • Grave and afterlife. Investigations in the Aegean region during the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age , Töpelmann, Berlin 1938 ( Religious-historical experiments and preliminary work , vol. 26) (= dissertation).
  • Driving and riding in old Europe and the old Orient . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1939. Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 1971.
  • The Prehistory and Early Period of the Mediterranean Countries (2 volumes), de Gruyter, Berlin 1943.
  • Olympos. Gods, Myths and Places of Hellas. Topographical and mythological guide through classical Greece . Techow, Nieder-Ramstadt near Darmstadt 1960; also Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1960.
  • Egyptian art , Ullstein, Frankfurt-Berlin 1963 (Ullstein art history, vol. 3).
  • The art of the ancient Orient , Ullstein, Frankfurt-Berlin 1963 (Ullstein-Kunstgeschichte, vol. 2),
  • The Thracians. Studies on a sunken people of the Balkans , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963 (Urban books, vol. 41).
  • Driving and riding . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1968 (Archaeologia Homerica, Delivery F).

literature

  • Felix Eckstein : Joseph Wiesner , in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 51, 1976, pp. 9-10.
  • Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix, in: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 334.
  • Eckhard Wirbelauer : The scientific staff of the Freiburg Philosophical Faculty (1910–1970) , in: Eckhardt Wirbelauer (Hrsg.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - Structures - Networks , Freiburg, Munich 2006, pp. 1020-1021.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian hooves: Gotenforschung and historic preservation. Herbert Jankuhn and the command companies of the 'Ahnenerbes' of the SS . In: Wolfgang Eschwede, A. Hartung (ed.): "Subject Security" Nazi art theft in the Soviet Union , Edition Temmen, Bremen 1998, pp. 92–95; Heiko Steuer: Herbert Jankuhn - SS career and prehistory and early history . In: Hartmut Lehmann, Otto Gerhard Oexle (Hrsg.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies . Vol. 1: Careers in a range of subjects . Göttingen 2004. pp. 493-494.

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personal data
SURNAME Wiesner, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebenthal
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1975
Place of death Loerrach