Bog body from Kibbelgaarn

The bog body of Kibbelgaarn is a bog body , which in 1791 Bourtanger bog near the village of Veendam in the Dutch province of Groningen was discovered.

Find

The place name Kibbelgaarn indicates that the site was on the western edge of the moor east of Veendam , near the Kibbelgaarn district . A more precise delimitation of the source is not possible due to the incomplete sources. The moor itself was completely peated as early as 1850.
Location: 53 ° 6 ′ 31 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 24 ″ E Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 31 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 24 ″ E53.1085 6.9568

The bog body from Kibbelgaarn is the body of an adult man who was found apparently undressed in 1791. The remains were bought by a Jewish trader shortly after they were found, without reporting to the authorities . This is probably the merchant and tanner Izak Mozes from the Van Huiden family, who is documented in the Groningen community of Pekela, and whose first and last name must have been interchanged in the course of the tradition. Moses is said to have regularly bought human and animal bog corpses in the surrounding bog settlements . He is said to have boned the corpses and sold the dried soft tissues to pharmacists . The pharmacists in the area then sold these as cheap mumia substitutes, whereas pharmacists in Amsterdam , Hamburg and Münster sold their goods as real mumia at higher prices. According to his own information to the authorities, Isaac Moses is said to have processed the bodies of four people, two dogs and six horses in the years 1784 to 1803. However, no attempted fraud could be proven by the authorities. If the information handed down is correct, it is likely that he also processed and sold the bog corpse from Kibbelgaarn to replace mumia.

Lore

The bog corpse of Kibbelgaarn is only indirectly proven and the information about it comes from some, largely lost sources. The first documented mention came from a letter from the Aurich teacher Sundermann of February 7, 1911 to the Hannover Provincial Museum . In it he describes the find based on the notes of his father, who made a copy of the official files in Aurich before they were destroyed in the fire of the archived archive in Stickhausen in 1874 . Sundermann's letter itself, along with other files from Hans Hahne's collective files, found moorland and moorland corpse finds in the warehouse of the Hannover Provincial Museum during World War II . Subsequent transmission was made by Alfred Dieck , who made a copy of this letter from Hahn's files as part of his studies before the Second World War.

literature

Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 39, 42, 48 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).
Alfred Dieck : Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies as official remedies in Central and Western Europe . In: Curare . tape 7 , 1984, ISSN 0344-8622 , pp. 211-232 .

Individual evidence

^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd . In: Archeologische monografieën van het Drents Museum . No. 1 . Drents Museum, Assen 1990, ISBN 90-70884-31-3 , p. 48-49 (Dutch).
^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd . In: Archeologische monografieën van het Drents Museum . No. 1 . Drents Museum, Assen 1990, ISBN 90-70884-31-3 , p. 49, fig. 1 . (Cannot be determined more precisely due to the historical sources).
^ ^A ^b Wijnand van der Sanden : Alfred Dieck and the Dutch bog bodies: some critical marginal notes . In: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory (ed.): The customer NF . No. 44 , 1993, ISSN 0342-0736 , pp. 134 .
^ ^A ^b Alfred Dieck : Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies as official remedies in Central and Western Europe . In: Curare . tape 7 , 1984, ISSN 0344-8622 , pp. 221 .
^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 39 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).
^ Wijnand van der Sanden : Alfred Dieck and the Dutch bog bodies: some critical marginal notes . In: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory (ed.): The customer NF . No. 44 , 1993, ISSN 0342-0736 , pp. 133 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bog body from Kibbelgaarn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bog corpse
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1770
DATE OF DEATH	before 1791
Place of death	near Kibbelgaarn , Netherlands

[1] Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd . In: Archeologische monografieën van het Drents Museum . No. 1 . Drents Museum, Assen 1990, ISBN 90-70884-31-3 , p. 48-49 (Dutch).

[2] Wijnand van der Sanden : Men en moeras: veenlijken in Nederland van de bronstijd tot en met de Romeinse tijd . In: Archeologische monografieën van het Drents Museum . No. 1 . Drents Museum, Assen 1990, ISBN 90-70884-31-3 , p. 49, fig. 1 . (Cannot be determined more precisely due to the historical sources).

[Sanden-134-3] A ^b Wijnand van der Sanden : Alfred Dieck and the Dutch bog bodies: some critical marginal notes . In: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory (ed.): The customer NF . No. 44 , 1993, ISSN 0342-0736 , pp. 134 .

[Dieck-4] A ^b Alfred Dieck : Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies as official remedies in Central and Western Europe . In: Curare . tape 7 , 1984, ISSN 0344-8622 , pp. 221 .

[5] Wijnand van der Sanden : Mummies from the moor. The prehistoric and protohistoric bog bodies from northwestern Europe . Batavian Lion International, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6707-416-0 , pp. 39 (Dutch, original title: Vereeuwigd in het veen . Translated by Henning Stilke).

[6] Wijnand van der Sanden : Alfred Dieck and the Dutch bog bodies: some critical marginal notes . In: Lower Saxony Regional Association for Prehistory (ed.): The customer NF . No. 44 , 1993, ISSN 0342-0736 , pp. 133 .