Oswin Puttrich-Reignard

Oswin Hans-Wolf Puttrich-Reignard (born August 25, 1906 in Brotterode , Thuringia , † September 27, 1942 on the Eastern Front ) was a German archaeologist .

Life

Puttrich-Reignard was born as the son of the Prussian forester Oswin Puttrich-Reignard of the same name . He attended the cadet house in Naumburg (Saale) and received his school-leaving certificate there in 1918 after the November Revolution .

Reignard studied law and art history at the universities of Berlin , Halle and Kiel and received his doctorate in Kiel in 1934 . However, his studies were interrupted by several trips abroad that took him to Sicily , among others .

Puttrich-Reignard conducted several systematic soil surveys in Sicily, near Palermo ( Cefalà Diana ). He also took part in the second excavation campaign in Ctesiphon as a technical assistant in the winter of 1931/1932 , where he worked as a leading excavator and draftsman. This excavation was carried out by the Museum of Islamic Art ( Berlin ) and the Metropolitan Museum ( New York City ). He then took part in an excavation by the Görres Society in Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee for several weeks . He traveled to Transjordan , Egypt , North Africa and other countries , among others .

Puttrich-Reignard last worked as a cameraman in the Wehrmacht . He fell on September 27, 1942 on the Eastern Front.

Fonts

The glass finds from Ctesiphon. Kiel 1936 (= dissertation)
with Alfons Maria Schneider: An early Islamic building on Lake Genesareth. Two reports on the excavations on Hirbet el-Minje. (Palestine booklets of the German Association of the Holy Land 15) Cologne 1937.

literature

Obituary in: Berliner Museen, Official Reports from the Prussian Art Collections 1943, pp. 20–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Maurice S. Dimand: The excavations of the second Ktesiphone expedition (winter 1931/32 ...), Ed .: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1933, p. 32.

personal data
SURNAME	Puttrich-Reignard, Oswin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Puttrich-Reignard, Oswin Hans-Wolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brotterode , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1942
Place of death	Eastern Front

[1] Maurice S. Dimand: The excavations of the second Ktesiphone expedition (winter 1931/32 ...), Ed .: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), 1933, p. 32.