Matthew Much

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Matthäus Much portrait in the Lake Dwelling Museum in Mondsee

Matthäus Much (born October 18, 1832 in Göpfritz an der Wild , † December 17, 1909 in Vienna ) was an Austrian prehistorian and monument conservator.

Life

Much was the curator of the kk Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments in Vienna and editor of the communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna. He was engaged in excavations in Austria and Moravia . The finds that were found in the process formed the “Much Collection”, comprising around 24,000 objects, which the Ministry of Education bought in 1912 and which represents a large part of the teaching apparatus of today's Institute for Prehistory at the University of Vienna . Much already dealt with current issues such as pile dwelling research and mining research. He was one of the leading prehistorians of his time. His numerous publications had a lasting influence on his contemporaries. Thanks to his good contacts with local researchers such as Candidus Ponz, Reichsritter von Engelshofen and Johann Krahuletz , he was usually quickly informed about new finds and was able to save a lot for the preservation of monuments and research.

Matthäus Much was part of the German national movement and in 1888 was part of the Georg von Schönerer group with his son Rudolf .

His research was shaped by ideology; so he looked for traces of a Germanic / Aryan antiquity. He suspected that the "original home" of the " Indo-Europeans " was in northern Germany. With these contemporary views he attracted the enmity of the "Slavists", for whom Central Europe has been inhabited by Slavs since the Stone Age. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Copper Age in Europe and its relationship to the culture of the Indo-Europeans (Vienna 1886)
  • Art History Atlas (Vienna 1889)
  • The homeland of the Indo-Europeans in the light of prehistoric research (Berlin 1902)
  • The illusion of oriental culture in the prehistoric ages of Northern and Central Europe (Jena 1907)

literature

  • H. Kerchler:  Much Matthäus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 400.
  • Oswald Menghin : The reorganization of the Much collection , In: Urania 6, 1913, pp. 601–604.
  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic Handbook on Pre- and Early History of Europe 2 , Prague 1969, p. 862.
  • Otto Helmut Urban :  Much, Matthäus J .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 249 ( digitized version ).
  • Otto H. Urban: "... and the German national anti-Semite Dr. Matthäus Much “- the Nestor of the prehistory of Austria? In: Archaeologia Austriaca 86, 2002, pp. 7–43. ( Digitized version )
  • Brigitte Fuchs: "Race", "People", Gender. Anthropological Discourses in Austria 1850-1960 . Campus, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.], 2003.
  • Frank Olaf Luckscheiter: Matthäus Much, "Schliemann Niederösterreichs" and German national anti-Semite , 2012, diploma thesis at the University of Vienna, online
  • Ottfried Becker: Dr. Matthäus Much (1832–1909): a documentary biography , Baden-Baden: Tectum 2019 (Scientific articles from the Tectum Verlag. History series; 42), ISBN 9783828843509 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ On the general role of the Pan-German Movement: Michael Wladika : Hitler's generation of fathers, the origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Vienna 2005.
  2. ^ Grave site Matthäus Much , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 43, Group Extension H, Row 2, No. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Much, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian homeland and prehistory researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Göpfritz an der Wild
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1909
Place of death Vienna