Kurt Schietzel

Kurt Schietzel (born September 25, 1933 ) is a German prehistorian .

Kurt Schietzel was the son of Carl Schietzel and his wife Thyra Elisabeth Möller. He studied in Hamburg and Cologne. In 1961 he received his doctorate from Hermann Schwabedissen in Cologne . In 1962/63 he held a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , with which he traveled to the Balkans, the Middle East and Egypt. From 1963 he was head of the department for Viking research and the excavations in Haithabu (in the Schleswig State Museum).

From 1983 until his retirement in 1998, Kurt Schietzel was the managing director of the Schleswig State Archaeological Museum ( Gottorf Castle ). He was the founder of the Viking Museum Haithabu and the first editor of the series Reports on the excavations in Haithabu . He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

In 1984 he was awarded the honorary professorship of the State of Schleswig -Holstein "in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding services to research in regional history, in particular during the excavation of the early medieval settlement Haithabu, to cultivate culture in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and to promote German-Scandinavian relations" Holstein and in 2002 received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Publications (selection)

• Müddersheim. A settlement of the younger band ceramics in the Rhineland. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1965 (dissertation)
• Searching for traces in Haithabu. Archaeological search for traces in the early medieval settlement of Haithabu: Documentation and Chronicle 1963-2013 , 4th edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2018, ISBN 978-3-529-01797-1 .

literature

• Jan Filip : Encyclopedic manual on the prehistory and early history of Europe. Vol. 2, Akademia, Prague 1969.
• Ceremony for Kurt Schietzel on his 65th birthday. Offa 54/55, 1997/98. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1999.
• "Scholarship without an ivory tower" (SHZ September 3, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiner Lehberger: Schietzel, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 332 .
2. ↑ Honorary title "Professor" . In: schleswig-holstein.de . Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
3. ↑ Jens Oldenburg: Minister of Culture Ute Erdsiek-Rave presents Professor Kurt Schietzel with the Cross of Merit on ribbon. (No longer available online.) Schleswig-holstein.de, September 23, 2002, archived from the original on October 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 18, 2012 . 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.