Klaus Grewe

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Klaus Grewe (* 1944 ) is a German geodesist and archaeologist . His specialty is the history of water supply facilities.

Life

Grewe studied geodesy at the State Engineering School for Construction and Surveying in Mainz . Then in 1967 he took up the newly created position for a surveyor at the LVR office for soil monument maintenance in the Rhineland (at that time still at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn ) and was henceforth responsible for technical soil monuments such as Roman roads and water pipes. Here he took over the management of the Eifel water pipeline project at the end of the 1970s . In 1997 he received his doctorate at the University of Nijmegen with the thesis Light at the End of the Tunnel - Planning and Routing in Ancient Tunneling . After leaving the company after 43 years of service in 2009, he was appointed honorary professor at RWTH Aachen University in 2010.

In addition to his numerous scientific publications, Grewe endeavors to make scientific results accessible to a broad audience. As an example, reference is made to the special exhibition of the Museum of Bathing Culture on the subject of water for Rome's cities , accompanying the Zülpich 2014 State Garden Show , which he curated and whose accompanying book Aqueducts he wrote (December 2015 to July 2017 in the LVR Roman Museum Xanten ). He is also responsible for the Eifelverein's official guide to the Römerkanal hiking trail . In 2007 he published the novel Der Ratz im Rohr. An archaeological journey through time , a fictional story of the young mountain master Berwulf, who is supposed to build a water pipe for the Count of Blankenheim. In 2016 he appeared in the second episode of the ZDF documentary Rom am Rhein .

Grewe lives with his family in Swisttal - Morenhoven . Here he has been involved in culture since the 1980s, for example for the Morenhovener Lupe cabaret prize, which he helped organize , and has published on local excavations.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Atlas of the Roman aqueducts to Cologne (= Rhenish excavations , Volume 26). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Habelt, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0868-X .
  • The Römerkanalwanderweg. An archaeological hiking guide . Text tape and card tape. Published by the Eifelverein in 1988 in cooperation with the Rhineland Regional Council, Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege. Verlag des Eifelverein, Düren 1988, ISBN 3-921805-16-3 .
  • Planning and routing of Roman water pipes (= series of publications by the Frontinus Society , Supplementary Volume I). Chmielorz, Wiesbaden 1992.
  • Light at the end of the tunnel. Planning and routing in ancient tunnel construction (= Ancient World, special issue). Zabern, Mainz 1998.
  • The historical Swistübergang at Lützermiel (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz [Hrsg.]: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 451). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss 2000, ISBN 3-88094-860-7 .
  • The zoo tunnel from Blankenheim Castle (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz [Hrsg.]: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 455). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss 2000, ISBN 3-88094-869-0 .
  • On Roman traces around Rheinbach. Water pipes and trunk roads from Roman times to the Middle Ages (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz [Hrsg.]: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 466). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss 2001, ISBN 3-88094-884-4 .
  • Klaus Grewe with the collaboration of Wolfgang Schumacher: The Tiergarten Tunnel hiking trail in Blankenheim (= Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection [Hrsg.]: Rhenish Landscapes . Issue 50). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss 2002, ISBN 3-88094-896-8 .
  • The rat in the pipe. An archaeological journey through time. Novel. Chmielorz-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-87124-332-5 .
  • The Fulbert tunnel on the Laacher See (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz [Hrsg.]: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 513). 1st edition. Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss 2009, ISBN 978-3-86526-042-0 .
  • Masterpieces of ancient technology. Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4239-1 .
  • Klaus Grewe, Manfred Knauff: The long leadership of the Romans. The Römerkanal hiking trail Nettersheim-Cologne. Publisher: Eifelverein eV 1st edition 2012. ISBN 978-3-921805-81-7 .
  • Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-127-6 (also book accompanying the exhibition).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Report on the State of Construction History in Austria, Germany and Switzerland . In: Construction History. Research Perspectives in Europe, ed. By Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce and Orietta Pedemonte, pp. 61–112 (here p. 83f.), Florence: Kim Williams Books 2004, ISBN 88-88479-11-2 .
  2. ^ Excavations in the Rhineland: The Roman training camp in Swisttal-Morenhoven (1978) . West German Society for Family Studies (PDF).
  3. ↑ The Frontinus Society is named after the Roman senator Sextus Iulius Frontinus and promotes research on the history of water supply. Prize winners of the Frontinus Society ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frontinus.de
  4. ↑ Communication from VDV

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personal data
SURNAME Grewe, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German antiquarian and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1944