Nikolaus Zaske

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Nikolaus Zaske (born September 19, 1926 in Stettin ; † December 10, 2014 ) was a German art historian and professor at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald .

Life

Zase's attendance at high school was interrupted by the events of the Second World War. He passed the final examination at the preparatory college in Greifswald and became a member of the FDJ and FDGB in 1946 . In 1947 he joined the SED and studied art history, archeology, German studies and philosophy at the University of Greifswald from 1947 to 1952 . In 1952 he completed his studies with the diploma examination.

In the summer semester 1953 Nicholas Zaske lecturer at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute for Art Research of the University of Greifswald, where he was in the same year one of Karl-Heinz Clasen supervised dissertation on the origin and meaning of architecture Heinrich Bruns mountain to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1958 he was senior assistant. In 1961 he qualified as a professor on the subject of Gothic Brick Building in Northern Germany: Contributions to the architectural and social history of the main types of three-aisled choirs from 1200 to 1500 . From September 1964 he was a lecturer, and in September 1982 he was appointed associate professor for art history at Greifswald University.

Zaske left the SED in 1953 and became a member of the GDR CDU . From 1962 to 1987 he was a member of the CDU district executive in Greifswald and temporarily a CDU city delegate.

In spring 1990 Nikolaus Zaske retired and moved to Hesse with his family .

Research priorities

The focus of his work was in the area of ​​medieval brick architecture and the arts of the Hanseatic era in the Baltic Sea region.

Fonts

  • Stralsund's Gothic churches and their works of art: Kirchl. Art history from 1250 to the present . Evang. Publishing company, Berlin 1964.
  • Gothic brick churches in northern Germany between the Elbe and Oder . Koehler et al. Amelang VOB, Leipzig 1968.
  • The St Marien Church in Stralsund . Union-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Art in Hanseatic cities . Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1985.
  • with Rosemarie Zaske: Art in Hanseatic Cities . Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-412-07185-4 .
  • Old German painting . Seemann, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-363-00282-3 .
  • Greifswald . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-325-00140-8 .
  • Stralsund . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-325-00001-0 .

literature

  • Zaske, Nikolaus. In: Lother 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 , pp. 656-657 (accessed online from De Gruyter ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also his text Ex oriente pax. (= Notebooks from Burgscheidungen . 161). 1967.
  2. ^ Obituary by Nikolaus Zaske (1926–2014) , Caspar David Friedrich Institute of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
personal data
SURNAME Zaske, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2014