Karl Peschel

Karl Peschel (born June 6, 1934 in Hellerau near Dresden; † August 19, 2019 ) was a German prehistorian with a special focus on the pre-Roman Iron Age .

Peschel studied prehistory and early history in Jena , where he received his doctorate on November 23, 1960 with the dissertation The prehistoric ceramics of the Gleichberge near Römhild, Meiningen district, Suhl district .

Since 1959, Peschel was involved in setting up a course in prehistory in Jena, initially as an assistant or senior assistant. After the prehistory museum and the institute for prehistoric archeology were closed in 1969 as part of the third university reform in the GDR, he initially worked as custodian for the prehistory and early history section of the history section of the University of Jena, and in this function kept the important study collection from being dissolved. In 1977 he was appointed head of the department and in 1979 he was appointed university lecturer. From 1993 until his retirement in 1999 he was Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Jena and worked intensively on the reconstruction of the Prehistory and Protohistory course, which since 1969 had only taken place as part of teacher training.

Peschel was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and since 1994 a member of the philological-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . He lived in Jena.

literature

• The Elbe Germanic burial ground in Großromstedt in Thuringia. An inventory . Roman-Germanic Research 74, Mainz 2018, ISBN 978-3-8053-5148-5 .
• Bibliography of the writings of Karl Peschel [until 1998] . Compiled by Jan Bemmann . In: Work and research reports on the preservation of monuments in Saxony. 41, 1999, ISSN  0402-7817 , pp. 12-16.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Peschel . Directory of members of the Saxon Academy of Sciences with life data