Oscar Paret

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Oscar Paret (born June 14, 1889 in Dachtel , Boeblingen district , † June 27, 1972 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German archaeologist . From 1949 to 1954 he was the state curator of Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Oscar Paret grew up as the second child of the pastor Otto Paret and his wife Edine nee. Wolf initially in the Dachteler, from 1892 in the Heutingsheim rectory together with three sisters and two brothers. Today, Heutingsheim is part of the city of Freiberg am Neckar ( Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg). Paret's interest in archeology and local history was aroused in his early childhood . At the age of 13 he wrote a treatise on his home town of Heutingsheim and another on Geisingen . He founded an antiquity association and a collection when he was 14 years old. In 1907, at the time of his visit to the Friedrich-Eugen-Oberrealschule in Stuttgart , he became acquainted with Peter Goessler , then head of the Stuttgart antiquities collection , when he was researching the foundations of the Villa Rustica in Heutingsheim.

He carried out the first excavations in 1908. He began studying architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart in the autumn of the same year. In autumn 1912 he began studying archeology and ancient history in Tübingen and Berlin , which he had to interrupt in 1914 because of the outbreak of the First World War . In the meantime, he was briefly appointed by the Ministry of Education as an honorary deputy to the curator Goessler, who was in Greece. In addition, in 1911 he was given the task of scientifically researching the “Eglosheimer Burg” near Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck through Ostertag-Siegle .

In July 1919 a doctorate Oscar Paret in Tübingen with a dissertation on murals in Pompeii to Dr. phil. In August of the same year he became assistant and curator at the State Museum, first under Eugen Gradmann , then under Peter Goessler . In 1930 the management of the antiquities collection was transferred to Walther Veeck . During the Second World War , Paret was drafted again. After Veeck's death in February 1941, Paret took over his role from March 1941 and managed the relocation and maintenance of the holdings of the antiquities collection and the Ludwigsburg local history museum during the bombing raids. From 1941 to 1961 he was chairman of the historical association for Ludwigsburg and the surrounding area .

In December 1945, Paret proposed a 15-point questionnaire to the Ludwigsburg District Culture Council to record the events of World War II. The questions were later the basis for the reports from communities about the war events in 1945 and the extent of the destruction in World War II .

When the Württemberg State Museum was re-established in 1947, he was entrusted with the management of the prehistoric and early historical collections as well as the archaeological preservation of monuments. The Technical University of Stuttgart appointed him honorary professor in 1948 .

By his retirement in 1954, Paret paved the way for comprehensive documentation and presentation of the collections and numerous new finds in the archive and museum. A number of local museums in the country also owe their foundation to his initiative.

Honors

obituary

“In the years of common service and personal encounters, I was able to experience the passion for history that this utterly undoctrinaire and fearless man had all his life with. His mind was constantly on the lookout to find the true connections, his diligence almost infinite to make what he had seen accessible to everyone. But both were fed by the love for their homeland, the joy of its beauty and the depth of its history. "

- Siegfried Junghans

Fonts

  • Prehistory of Württemberg with special consideration of the central Neckarland . Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1921.
  • The graphite in prehistoric Europe. In: Sudeta. Journal for Pre- and Early History 5 (1929) 1, pp. 30–53.
  • The graphite in antiquity. In: From home. Natural Science Monthly 43 (1930) 9, pp. 277-279.
  • The settlements of Roman Württemberg . in: Friedrich Hertlein , Oscar Paret, Peter Goessler (eds.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 3. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1932.
  • Mining on metals in ancient times. In: From home. Natural Science Monthly 45 (1932) 11, pp. [305] -316.
  • Ludwigsburg and the country around the Asperg: A home book for the Ludwigsburg district . Ludwigsburg 1934.
  • The Rottenburg Fort . In: The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches Department B, Volume 5, Fort No. 61 (1936).
  • The class trip to the Stone Age: a story . In: Gundert's blue books for young people . Gundert, Stuttgart 1936.
  • The early Swabian grave fields of Greater Stuttgart and their time . Krais, Stuttgart 1937.
  • Golder the master blacksmith: An inventor's life 2500 years ago . Eichhorn, Ludwigsburg 1939.
  • The pile dwellings. An obituary , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 68th year 1941/42, pp. 75-108 ( digitized version )
  • The new picture of prehistory. Schröder, Stuttgart 1946.
  • The Bible, its transmission in print and in writing . Württembergische. Bible Institute, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Greater Stuttgart in prehistoric times . Schröder, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Württemberg in prehistoric and early history . ( Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Vol. 17). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1961.

literature

  • Siegfried Junghans : Oscar Paret (1889–1972) . Find reports from Baden-Württemberg 1 (1994), p. 698.
  • Dieter Planck : Paret, Oscar. Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Vol. 3, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 292–295 ( full text ).
  • Aidlingen municipality: Aidlingen, Lehenweiler, Dachtel and Deufringen . 1999, Dachtel pp. 515-517, ISBN 3-00-004521-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ This was done both in cooperation with the Freiherr von Brusselse-Schaubeck and on behalf of the Stuttgart antiquities collection as well as on our own.
  2. ↑ Due to its quality, this work represents a milestone in the documentation and complete excavation of a Roman manor in Württemberg.
  3. ^ A b Albert Sting : History of the City of Ludwigsburg. Vol. 2: From 1816 to the end of the war in 1945. Ludwigsburg 2004, p. 470. ISBN 3-930872-08-0
  4. ↑ Reports from communities on the war events in 1945 and the extent of the destruction in World War II (inventory) - German Digital Library. Accessed December 31, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The appointment took place in the context of the 40th anniversary of the federal government on May 22, 1949: Honor roll. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1949. Ed. By Felix Schuster on behalf of the Schwäbisches Heimatbund. Stuttgart [1949], pp. 176-177, p. 176.
  6. ^ Siegfried Junghans: Oscar Paret (1889–1972) . Find reports from Baden-Württemberg 1 (1994), p. 698
personal data
SURNAME Paret, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paret, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachtel
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1972
Place of death Ludwigsburg