Konrad Spindler

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Konrad Spindler (born June 20, 1939 in Leipzig , † April 17, 2005 in Innsbruck ) was a German prehistorian , known as the researcher of the Ötzi mummy .

Life

Spindler grew up near Hanover . He studied archeology , anthropology and medicine at the University of Freiburg ( PhD 1970). As the city archaeologist of Villingen in the Black Forest , from 1970 to 1973 he headed the excavations on Magdalenenberg , a Hallstatt-era burial mound . From 1974 to 1977 he was university assistant at the chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Regensburg (habilitation 1977). From 1977 to 1988 Spindler worked as a scientific advisor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1988 he moved to the University of Innsbruck , where he took over the post of full professor at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History as well as Medieval and Modern Archeology . He was head of the chair for medieval and modern archeology.

Spindler became known to a wider audience after September 1991, when the glacier mummy “ Ötzi ” was found in South Tyrol . He was the first to date and classify the glacier corpse almost correctly. Spindler headed the archaeological and archaeological-scientific investigations of the mummy until 1998, after which it was transferred to the new South Tyrolean Archaeological Museum in Bolzano .

Spindler died in Innsbruck after suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for a long time . Almost eight weeks earlier he had given a lecture - already in a wheelchair - at an international symposium on the “ Nebra Sky Disc ” in Halle (Saale) . He published 35 monographs and more than 150 scientific articles on archaeological topics from the Stone Age to the modern age.

He was a grandson of the painter Erwin Spindler (1860–1926) and great-grandson of the composer Fritz Spindler (1816–1905).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Gretel Gallay, Leonel Trindade , Octávio da Veiga Ferreira: O Monumento pré-hiostórico de Pai Mogo (Lourinhã) . Associação dos Arqueólogos Portuguêses, Lisboa 1973.
  • The Magdalenenberg near Villingen - a princely grave mound of the 7th century BC . With contributions by André Billamboz and Gabriele Weber-Jenisch. Guide to archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg 5, 1976; 2nd edition Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1381-X .
  • The early Celts . 1983; 3rd edition Reclam, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-15-010369-X .
  • The man in the ice . 1993; most recently Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-12596-0 .
  • as editor: Bunzlauer Keramik . The fine stoneware factory Julius Paul & Sohn in Bunzlau (1893–1945) . Nearchos 8-10, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-89790-168-4 .
  • with Markus Egg : clothing and equipment of the glacier mummy from the Ötztal Alps (monographs of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz, volume 77). Schnell + Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2141-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Rieckhoff:  Spindler, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 700-702 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Spindler, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and researcher of the Ötzi mummy
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2005
Place of death innsbruck