Peter Fischer (museologist)

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Peter Fischer (born June 29, 1943 in Magdeburg ; † September 1, 1996 ) was a German museologist , ethnographer and local history researcher.

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After attending primary school in his native Magdeburg, Peter Fischer started an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1959 and then did his 18-month military service.

From 1963 he studied at the technical college for museology in Weißenfels , where he met Hartmut Bock , with whom he later worked together scientifically and as a journalist. Peter Fischer continued his technical school education in Meißen and Leipzig and finished it in 1969 with a degree as a museologist. He worked as an assistant at the District Home Museum Genthin and the District Home Museum Schönebeck in Bad Salzelmen , before he became director of the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel and at the same time of the Diesdorf open-air museum in 1970 .

In 1972 Peter Fischer began studying German folklore (ethnography) at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he graduated in 1977 with a degree in ethnography.

When the Diesdorf open-air museum was separated from the Danneil-Museum Salzwedel in 1989, Peter Fischer took over the management of the open-air museum. He died in 1996 at the age of 54. His grave is in the Diesdorf cemetery .

In cooperation and a. With the former city archivist of Salzwedel, Ingelore Fischer, and Hartmut Bock, he did research in various archives and libraries on numerous cultural-historical and ethnographic topics of the Altmark and published several of his own writings and articles on them.

Works (selection)

  • Monuments of the Salzwedel district . Freilichtmuseum Diesdorf, Diesdorf 1990, without ISBN.
  • Hartmut Bock, Peter Fischer et al .: The north-western Altmark - a cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1991.
  • Monasteries, churches and other monuments . In: The north-western Altmark - A cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1991, without ISBN.
  • To the local history of Maxdorf . Altmarkkreis Salzwedel 1996

literature

  • Hartmut Bock, Peter Fischer et al .: The north-western Altmark - a cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1991. p. 225.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of the Diesdorf Open-Air Museum
  2. ↑ Photo of the tombstone
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museologist, ethnographer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1996