Klaus-Dieter Jäger

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Klaus-Dieter Jäger (born January 23, 1936 in Radebeul ; † March 31, 2019 ) was a German geologist and prehistorian . From 1991 to 2001 he was director of the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Klaus-Dieter Jäger graduated from high school in 1954 and then began studying biology and botany at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1958 he completed a study visit to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In the same year he obtained the diploma . He then took part in a graduate grant from the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) until 1960 . In 1960 he completed a study visit to Czechoslovakia and then worked until 1966 as a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the DAW. In 1966 he received his doctorate at the mathematics and natural sciences faculty of the University of Jena under Heinz Kliewe , Otto Schwarz and Gotthard Neumann on the subject of Holocene inland limestone and their statement for post-glacial climate and landscape development in southern Central Europe. Basics and main features of a comparative stratigraphy with special consideration of Thuringia .

Then Jäger worked until 1968 as a research assistant at the Institute for Geology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Between 1968 and 1971 he was head of the engineering geology department at the geology district in Frankfurt (Oder) . From 1972 to 1981 he was a research assistant in the working group Natural Balance and Territorial Character at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and lecturer in soil science and Quaternary geology at the Prehistory and Protohistory Department of the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1982 he received his PhD B on the topic of Stratigraphic Evidence for the Change of Climate and Landscape in the Young Quaternary of Eastern Central Europe (with special consideration of the side effects of land use in the Holocene) . In 1983 Jäger became a university lecturer in the Prehistory and Protohistory Department of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . After the retirement of Joachim Preuss he took over in 1991, first acting head of the now Institute of Prehistory and Early History at the Martin Luther University. In 1992 he took over the regular management of the institute as professor of geoarchaeology and prehistoric ecology (C3). In 2001 he retired. His successor as institute director was François Bertemes , who had held a professorship for prehistoric archeology (C4) at the same institute since 1999.

Jäger had been a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2004 . In 2014 he was awarded the Albrecht Penck Medal by the German Quaternary Association.

Klaus-Dieter Jäger, who lived in Berlin, died on March 31, 2019 at the age of 83.

Fonts

author

  • Holocene inland limestone and their implications for post-glacial climate and landscape development in southern Central Europe. Basics and Basics e. cf. Stratigraphy under special consideration. Thuringia (1966)
  • Stratigraphic evidence of the change in climate and landscape in the Young Quarter of Eastern Central Europe (with special consideration of the side effects of land use in the Holocene) (1982)
  • With Heinz Kliewe, Rajmund Galon, Wladislaw Niewiarowski: The Young Quaternary and its use in the lowlands of the GDR and the VR Poland (1983)

editor

  • New research on settlement archeology in East Germany (2000)

literature

  • Archaeological Society in Thuringia V. (Ed.): Terra praehistorica. Festschrift for Klaus-Dieter Jäger on his 70th birthday (= New excavations and finds in Thuringia. Special volume = Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 48). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-79-7 .
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 315.
  • Sven Ostritz , Ralph Einicke (eds.): Terra & Praehistoria. Festschrift for Klaus-Dieter Jäger (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 9). Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Haßlau 1996, ISBN 3-930036-12-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Armin Jähne: Nekrolog on our member Klaus-Dieter Jäger. Leibniz Society of Sciences, April 18, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and prehistoric
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2019