Paul Steiner (archaeologist)

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Paul Steiner (born August 21, 1876 in Xanten , † April 12, 1944 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German provincial Roman archaeologist .

Life

Paul Steiner was the son of the doctor Joseph Steiner (1839–1914) and his wife Maria geb. Martzeller. His father was chairman of the Lower Rhine Antiquities Association and was involved in regional historical research; through him Paul Steiner came into contact with the archeology of the Rhineland. He attended high school in Kleve and studied archeology and history at the universities of Munster , Munich ( Ludwig Maximilian University and Technical University ), Berlin and especially Bonn , where he was particularly influenced by the archaeologist Georg Loeschcke . After graduating as Dr. phil. In 1904 he did his military service and resigned as captain of the reserve.

For 1905/1906 Steiner received the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to do research and study trips to Austria, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. From 1906 to 1911 he worked as an assistant at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt am Main and during this time undertook several research trips to West Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland to examine Roman brick stamps for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . The corresponding volume appeared in 1933 in Volume XIII of the CIL. In 1911 he was elected by the German Archaeological Institute as a corresponding member and in 1922 as a full member.

On April 1, 1911, Paul Steiner went to the Landesmuseum Trier , where a full-time position as assistant director had been set up at the instigation of the provincial committee. Steiner spent the rest of his career at the State Museum. In 1928 he was promoted to department director. Under the National Socialists he was prematurely retired in 1937 because of his dissident attitude. He spent his old age in Bad Godesberg .

Since 1910 he was married to Ada Veit, with whom he had two sons.

Fonts (selection)

  • Dona militaria or the Roman military awards . Bonn 1904 (dissertation)
  • Roman villas in the Trever area. Issue 1: The Villa of Bollendorf . Trier 1922
  • Roman country houses (villae) in the Trier district . Berlin 1923
  • Signacula publice laterculis impressa . Berlin 1933 ( Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum . 13.6)

literature

  • Jürgen Merten: Paul Steiner (1876–1944) and the ring wall research in the Trier region . In: Finds and excavations in the Trier district . Vol. 26 (1994), pp. 60-70
  • Jürgen Merten: Paul Steiner (1876–1944). An archaeologist from Trier . In: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas . 58th year (1995), pp. 425–462 (with list of publications and bequests)

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Steiner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reason: because of "his dismissive position towards the movement"; see. Propaganda, power, history: archeology on the Rhine and Moselle in the service of National Socialism . Trier 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Xanten
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1944
Place of death bad Godesberg