Karl Kromer

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Karl Kromer (born August 3, 1924 in Vienna ; † September 19, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian prehistorian .

Live and act

After graduating from the Neulandschule in Vienna, Kromer studied prehistory , folklore and ancient history at the University of Vienna from 1943 . He received his doctorate in 1947 and worked from 1946 to 1959 as an assistant or curator and then head of the prehistoric department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna . In 1960 Karl Kromer was one of the founders of the "International Eastern Alps Committee", which was made up of representatives from Austria, Slovenia and Italy and which set itself the task of discussing, researching and publishing large complexes of finds from areas of the former monarchy. 

From 1967 until his retirement in 1986 he held the chair for prehistory at the University of Innsbruck . In 1986 he was appointed a member of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . 

He spent his retirement years in Vienna, where he held sporadic lectures on systematic prehistory (cycle), chronology, Crete and Mycenae, Picenum and Egypt in the pre-dynastic period until 1994 at the Institute for Prehistory. 

Kromer made a name for himself above all through the processing and publication of the Hallstatt burial ground ( Hallstatt culture ) and through his decades of excavations in Egypt and Iran .

He was buried at the Neustift cemetery in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • Brezje - a Hallstatt hill necropolis in Carniola . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1947, OBV .
  • To the picenter problem . In: Communications of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Volume 5.5, ZDB -ID 206083-8 . Rohrer, Vienna 1950, OBV , pp. 132–155.
  • On the early history of Rome . Announcements of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Volume 6.2, ZDB-ID 206083-8. Rohrer, Vienna 1953, OBV , pp. 120–144.
  • Wilhelm Ehgartner , -: The Avars from Zwölfaxing . In: Herbert Mitscha-Märheim : On the history of the Avars . Flyer (Natural History Museum Vienna), Volume 11, (without ZDB-ID). Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna 1956, OVB .
  • Christian Pescheck , -: The Hallstatt burial mounds in Lower Austria and Burgenland . From: Communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna , Volume 87, ZDB -ID 206023-1 . Berger, Horn / Vienna 1957, OBV , pp. 53–66.
  • The Hallstatt burial ground . Monograph, International Association for Classical Archeology, Volume 1. Sansoni, Florence 1959. (Habilitation thesis), OBV .
  • Hallstatt, the salt trading metropolis of the first millennium BC in the Alps. Exhibition catalog . Natural History Museum, Vienna 1963, OBV .
  • From early iron and rich salt lords. The Hallstatt culture in Austria . Wollzeilen-Verlag, Vienna 1964, OBV .
  • Roman wine bars in Sayala (Lower Nubia) . Reports of the Austrian National Committee of the Unesco Action for the Rescue of Nubian Antiquities, Volume 4. Böhlau, Graz / Vienna (among others) 1967, OBV .
  • Austrian excavations in Giza (Var) Preliminary report on the spring campaign 1971 [1]
  • The first Europeans . Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck / Umschau 1980, OBV . (Special edition: Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1987, ISBN 3-570-09962-8 ).

Awards, honors

literature

  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic manual on the prehistory and early history of Europe . Volume 1: A - K. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1966, OBV , p. 647.
  • Festschrift Karl Kromer for his 70th birthday . In: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna. Volume 123/124, ZDB -ID 206023-1 . Berger, Horn 1993. (With list of publications).
  • Ernst Lauermann: Univ.-Prof. Dr Karl Kromer . In: Our home. Volume 74.2003, ZDB -ID 510114-1 . Association for regional studies of Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2003, p. 327–, OBV .
  • Andreas Lippert : In memoriam Karl Kromer . In: Archaeologia Austriaca. Volume 87.2003, ZDB -ID 211332-6 . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, OVB , pp. 7–9. (Including portrait), text online (PDF; 0.6 MB) , accessed on July 24, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lippert: In memoriam Karl Kromer. P. 7.
  2. ↑ a b c Lippert: In memoriam Karl Kromer , p. 9.
  3. ^ Lippert: In memoriam Karl Kromer , p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Kromer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2003
Place of death Vienna