Kurt Böhner

Kurt Böhner (born November 29, 1914 in Halberstadt ; † May 31, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl ) was a German prehistoric and medieval archaeologist.

Life

Kurt Böhner studied from 1933 to 1939 in Erlangen and Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1942 under Hans Zeiss on the Franconian antiquities of the Trier region . During his time in Munich he joined the Corps Germania , of which he was a member until his death. Then in 1943 Böhner became assistant director at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, whose director he became in 1955. In 1958 Böhner took over the office of managing director of the RGZM in Mainz until his retirement in 1981. In 1959 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Mainz . In 1962, Böhner took over the chairmanship of the West and South German Association for Antiquity Research as the successor to Ferdinand Kutsch , which he held for over 20 years until 1983.

As a prehistorian, Böhner has earned an international reputation, especially in the area of early medieval research . Böhner's research performance is essentially based on the work of his dissertation , which outlined his central research topics for the first time. Its importance lies in the fact that it has developed a chronological framework that represented an important step forward in the current state of research. It is still widely used today. For a long time, his observations on the topography of the settlement, such as the relationship between burial ground and settlement, or his considerations on the lordship of early medieval handicrafts were also groundbreaking . His research on the question of a continuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages , which he published in several overview works, but above all in numerous individual studies in the guides to prehistoric monuments in Germany , is also of importance.

Kurt Böhner has received several awards for his services, for example the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . He was an honorary member of the Vienna Anthropological Society and a member of the German Archaeological Institute . He was also a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• The question of continuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages as reflected in the Franconian finds of the Rhineland. In: Trier Zeitschr. 19, 1950, pp. 82-106.
• The Franconian antiquities of the Trier region. Germanic Monuments of the Migration Period, Series B 1. Berlin 1958.
• Early medieval pottery kilns in Walberberg and Pingsdorf. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 155/56, 1955/56, pp. 372–385.
• The grave of a Frankish gentleman from Morken in the Rhineland. (Cologne 1959).
• with Detlev Ellmers and Konrad Weidemann : The early Middle Ages. Guide RGZM 1, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1970. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, slightly modified in 1980.
• Antiquity cheerful. Caricatures of a science . Habelt, Bonn 2000.

literature

• Friedrich-Wilhelm von Hase : 100 years of the West and South German Association for Antiquity Research. The "era of Böhner" (1962–1983). In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 5, 1, 2000, pp. 81–94.
• Hermann Ament : Kurt Böhner. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 207, 2007, pp. 1–4.
• Michael Müller-Wille : Obituary for Kurt Böhner . In: Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz, Yearbook 58, 2007, pp. 22-25.
• Mechthild Schulze-Dörrlamm , Martin Schönfelder: Kurt Böhner - Obituary and list of publications. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz 54, 1, 2007 (2010), pp. IX – XX.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Böhner, Kurt, p. 48 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Böhner in the catalog of the German National Library