Otto-Herman Frey

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Otto-Herman Frey (born September 1, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

Otto-Herman Frey was born as the son of the ministerial official Herman-Walther Frey and studied prehistory , classical archeology and ancient history at the University of Freiburg . He received his doctorate there in 1957 with a thesis on an Etruscan bronze beak jug in Besançon (I) and the import of Etruscan bronze beak jugs in Central Europe (II) . This was followed by a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute until 1958 . Then Frey became a research assistant at the Prehistory Department of the University of Marburg . With the work The Origin of Situla Art. Studies on the figuratively decorated toreutics by Este , he completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1964. In 1970 he was appointed to the chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Hamburg , and from 1976 until his retirement in 1996 he taught as a full professor for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Marburg.

Frey is a specialist in the Hallstatt and early La Tène periods , Etruscan imports to Central Europe and the art of the situla . He carried out excavations in Spain, Slovenia and Italy, among others. He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute , the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e Italici , the British Academy (1990), the Historical Commission for Hesse (1978), the Prehistoric Society in London and since 2000 an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy . In January 2020, Frey received the Goethe plaque , the highest award from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art.

Fonts (selection)

  • An Etruscan bronze beak jug (= Au Musée de Besançon. Série 2, Bd. 2, No. 1 = Annales littéraires de l'Universite de Franche-Comté. 5 = Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon. Archeology. 2, ISSN  0768- 2255 ). Faculté des Lettres et al., Besançon et al. 1955, (At the same time, part 1: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1957).
  • The time of the princely grave of Hatten in Alsace. In: Germania . Vol. 35, 1957, pp. 229-249.
  • as editor: Wolfgang Lucke: The Situla in Providence (Rhode Island). A contribution to the situle art of the Osthallstattkreis (= Roman-Germanic research. Vol. 26, ISSN  0176-5337 ). Issued from the estate. de Gruyter, Berlin 1962.
  • The emergence of situle art. Studies on the figuratively decorated toreutics by Este (= Roman-Germanic research. Vol. 31). de Gruyter, Berlin 1969 (at the same time: Marburg, University, habilitation thesis, 1964).
  • Who was the man from grave 2 from Glauberg? (= Small writings from the Marburg Prehistory Seminar. 60). Prehistory seminar at the Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8185-0517-2 .

literature

  • Claus Dobiat (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Otto-Herman Frey for his 65th birthday (= Marburg studies on prehistory and early history. 16). Hitzeroth, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-89398-159-4 .
  • Otto-Herman Frey. In: Nürnberger Blätter to archeology . 13, 1996/1997, p. 38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Otto-Hermann Frey. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, press release of January 31, 2020 , accessed on February 4, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Otto-Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin