Karl-Ernst Behre

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Karl-Ernst Behre (born February 13, 1935 in Bremen ) is a German archaeobotanist , known for his work on historical coastal research on the North Sea .

Life

From 1954 Behre studied biology, chemistry and geography at the Philipps University of Marburg , the University of Innsbruck and the Georg August University of Göttingen . He received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1961. From 1962 he worked at the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh and Wurten Research in Wilhelmshaven . In 1969 he qualified as a professor for botany in Göttingen. In 1978 he became scientific director and in 1991 director of the facility. From 1994 to 2000 he was a part-time professor of Quaternary vegetation history at the Free University of Amsterdam . In 2000 he retired.

Behre dealt in particular with the history of settlement of the terps , including Haithabu . The vegetation history and biostratigraphy of northern Germany in the Quaternary as well as climate history and sea level fluctuations in the Holocene were other interests. In 1989, in an excavation in the old town of Bremen from the early 13th century, he identified a peppercorn, which is the oldest archaeological find of this herb north of the Alps (see Bremer Pfefferkorn ).

From 1971 to 1995 Behre was President of the Marsh Council for the Promotion of Research in the Coastal Area of ​​the North Sea. He is the founder and was editor of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany from 1992 to 2001 and was co-editor of Ice Age and Present , Acta Palaeobotanica , Studia Quarternaria . He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a member of its Roman-Germanic Commission from 1992 to 2002 .

Honors

Fonts

  • On the history of wort based on fruit finds and written sources. In: Plants and ancient man. Studies in palaeoethnobotany. Edited by W. van Zeist and WA Casparie, Rotterdam 1984, pp. 115-122.
  • Landscape history of Northern Germany , Neumünster 2008
  • Editor with H. van Lengen Ostfriesland history and shape of a cultural landscape , 3rd edition, Aurich 1998, in it by Behre: The emergence and development of the natural and cultural landscape of the East Frisian peninsula
  • Brief historical geography of the Elbe-Weser area , Stade, Landschaftsverband 1994
  • Contributions in Hans-Erich Reineck (Ed.): The Watt. Ablagerungs- und Lebensraum , Frankfurt am Main, Senckenberg book , 3rd edition 1982 (first 1970), therein by Behre The history of the jade bus and the jade
  • The development of the North Sea coastal landscape from a geobotanical point of view , reports of the Reinhard-Tüxen-Gesellschaft, Volume 3, Hanover 1991, pp. 45–58
  • The original vegetation in the German marshland and its change due to prehistoric settlement and sea level fluctuations , negotiating. the Ges. f. Ecology, Volume 13, 1985, Göttingen, pp. 85-96
  • How Man Conquered the Coast , in J. Newig, H. Theede (Editor) Storm Surge. Endangered land on the North Sea , Hamburg 2000, pp. 75–97
  • Sea level fluctuations and settlement history in the North Sea marshes , lectures of the Oldenburg landscape, 1987, pp. 1-47
  • Holocene coastal development, sea level movements and settlement events in the southern North Sea , Bamberger Geographische Schriften, Volume 20, 2001, pp. 1–28
  • The post-glacial sea level movements and their impact on the coastal landscape and its settlement , in H.-J. Schellnhuber, H. Sterr (editor) Climate Change and Coast , Heidelberg 1993, pp. 57-76
  • Changes in the Lower Saxony coastlines in the last 3000 years and their causes , problems of coastal research in the southern North Sea area, Volume 26, 1999, pp. 9–33
  • with W. Haio Zimmermann, Peter Schmid The history of the development of a settlement chamber in the Elbe-Weser triangle since the Neolithic , News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory , Volume 42, 1973, pp. 97-122
  • with Peter Schmid The Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research: 60 years of research in the coastal area , Wilhelmshaven, Brune 1998
  • Food and the environment in the Viking Age settlement Haithabu , Neumünster 1983
  • Investigation of the botanical material of the early medieval settlement Haithabu (excavation 1963–1964) , reports on the excavation in Haithabu, Volume 2, Wachholtz, Neumünster 1969
  • Editor Anthropogenic indicators in Pollen diagrams , Balkema, Rotterdam 1986 (Wilhelmshaven Conference 1985)
  • With the spade into the past: 5000 years of settlement and economy in the Elbe-Weser triangle , Cuxhaven district, Bremerhaven 1982
  • The Neuchâtel Primeval Forest - a monument to the cultural landscape , Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-930510-38-2
  • The history of the landscape around the Jade Bay , Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2012, ISBN 978-3-941929-02-9
  • Paleo-ecology on the North Sea: Botany as a key to environmental history , Biology in our time, Volume 35, 2005, 320-330

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Pollen and diatom analysis of the last interglacial kieselguhr deposits on the Lüneburg Heath , Flora, Volume 152, 1962, pp. 325-370
  2. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ Press release No. 46/10. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved February 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Beher, Karl-Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen