Offa (magazine)

The journal Offa - reports and communications on prehistory, early history and medieval archeology is an archaeological specialist journal in northern Germany.

The magazine is published by the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , in cooperation with the Archaeological State Museum of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig and the State Archaeological Office Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, under the responsibility of Johannes Müller , Ulrich Müller and Claus von Carnap-Bornheim .

The journal first appeared in 1937 but was dated back to 1936. The Offa was also to continue the communications of the Anthropological Association in Schleswig-Holstein and the reports of the Schleswig-Holstein Museum of Patriotic Antiquities , which have not appeared since the death of the editor Johanna Mestorf in 1909. Offa is currently published in three different series: Offa books, Offa magazine and Offa supplementary series .

Offa magazine was named after the legendary King Offa of the Angles from the old English poem Widsith and the Beowulf saga .

Editors and editors (selection)

• Gustav Schwantes 1936–1959
• Herbert Jankuhn 1936–1959
• Karl Kersten 1959–1973
• Georg Kossak 1959–1973
• Karl Wilhelm Struve 1974–1980, 1982–1983
• Hermann Hinz 1979
• Bernhard Hansel 1980
• Michael Müller-Wille 1981–1983

Web links

• ISSN  0078-3714
• Offa on the homepage of the University of Kiel ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )