Martin Jahn (prehistoric)

Martin Jahn (born September 20, 1888 in Berlin , † September 11, 1974 in Buckenhof ) was a German prehistorian .

Martin Jahn passed his Abitur in 1907 and then began studying history and German at the University of Berlin . After graduating in 1912, he became a research assistant at the Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities in Breslau . The doctorate took place in January 1914 with Gustaf Kossinna and Hans Delbrück with a work on the topic The armament of the Teutons in the older Iron Age from about 700 BC. Chr. To 200 AD. Jahn took part in the First World War and from 1920 became curator at the Breslau Museum. His habilitation followed in 1930, after which he became a private lecturer at the University of Breslau and in 1931 director of the State Office for Prehistoric Monument Preservation in Breslau . Between 1934 and 1945 Jahn taught as a full professor at the University of Breslau. In 1945 he was forcibly relocated and one year later he was appointed professor with a chair for prehistory at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg ; from 1946 he was also director of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle . Since 1948 Jahn was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , since 1950 a member of the Leopoldina in the anthropology section and in 1955 a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1958 he retired and moved to the FRG, where he was once again a lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

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The arming of the Teutons in the older Iron Age from around 700 BC. BC to AD 200 , Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1916 (Mannus Library, vol. 16)
The rider's spur, its origin and earliest development , Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1921 (Mannus library, vol. 21)
The Celts in Silesia , Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1921 (Sources on East German Pre- and Early History, Vol. 1)
The Siling, the holy mountain of the Vandals , 1937
General prehistory with special consideration of Germany. Part 1 , People and Knowledge, Berlin / Leipzig 1948 (textbooks for history lessons in high school. Special issue)
Was there already a trade in prehistoric times? , Academy, Berlin 1960 (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 52, no.2)
The demarcation of cultural groups and peoples in prehistory , Akademie, Berlin 1952 (reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 99, no.3)
The oldest mining in Europe , Academy, Berlin 1956 (Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 48, no.4)

Klaus Schwarz (Ed.): Strena praehistorica. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Martin Jahn , Niemeyer, Halle 1948
Günter Smolla : Martin Jahn, September 20, 1888 - September 11, 1974. In: Prehistoric magazine . 50, 1975, pp. 1-8.
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. 317.