Peter Jaeckel

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Peter Jaeckel (born May 18, 1914 in Berlin ; † September 13, 1996 ) was a German classical archaeologist , important numismatist and collector . From 1969 to 1979 he was director of the Bavarian Army Museum , which was reopened in Ingolstadt in 1972.

Life

Jaeckel was born in 1914 as the son of the well-known expressionist painter Willy Jaeckel (1888–1944) and the concert singer Charlotte Jaeckel (1894–1950), b. Sommer, born in Berlin. He attended an elementary school in Gunzesried in the Allgäu , where he lived in the 1920s. When his parents separated, he also spent his youth with his mother in Vienna . After graduating from the Arndt High School in Dahlem , he studied classical archeology , art history and Latin at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from 1934/35 . His college friends included u. a. Werner Hahlweg and Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann . Interrupting his studies, he did military service from 1935 to 1937. In 1940 he was drafted into military service in 1943 as a commissioned officer in the Wehrmacht fired. Already in 1941 he was in archeology with the dissertation The weapons reliefs of Athenaheiligtums to Pergamon to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1944 he witnessed the Allied air raids on Berlin .

After the Second World War in 1945, he was supported by the Soviet occupation forces as mayor on Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea - where he lived at the end of the war - used, but then left at the end of the year. From 1946 to 1948 he was a lecturer in art and cultural history at the Art School of the North (from 1947 University of Applied Arts) in Berlin-Weißensee , which was located in the Soviet occupation zone. After the Berlin blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948, he moved to Munich, where he initially worked as a freelancer. After finishing his university career, he turned to numismatics, for which he undertook studies in Berlin, Zurich and Munich. In 1950 he became a research assistant at the State Coin Collection in Munich , where he became a consultant for oriental, East Asian and extra-Acidopean numismatics in 1958 with the support of Babinger. Around 1950 he was entrusted with the collection of the Swiss numismatist Frédéric Soret . He taught himself Arabic for his work . From 1968 to the beginning of the 1990s he was also a lecturer in Islamic numismatics and Ottoman costume and weapon studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he was in close contact with the Turkologist Franz Babinger . After moving to Ingolstadt, scientific work in this area was stopped in Munich. From 1969 to 1979 he was director of the Bavarian Army Museum , which was reopened in 1972 in the New Palace in Ingolstadt. During the move in the late 1960s, he assisted his predecessor Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein . In 1976 the exhibition rooms in the flag house were reopened. He was considered a specialist in Bavarian Turkish loot, and he rediscovered the Hessian Turkish loot.

Jaeckel published u. a. about numismatics and weapons science . In 1968 he published the much discussed first volume of the work published by Eduard von Zambaur in 1943 , Die Münzprägungen des Islams , which is valuable for Islamic numismatics .

He was a member of the Society for Historical Arms and Costume Studies and the Tin Figure Collectors Association Klio , honorary member of the German Society for Heereskunde and President of the Association of Arms and Military History Museums. In 1967 the medalist Nicolai Tregor designed a bronze portrait medal (owned by the State Mint Collection in Munich) for him. In 1975 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. He was also the holder of the golden badge of honor of the association of free tin figure collectors . Jaeckel was married; In 1998 the Oriental Coin Cabinet in Jena acquired its valuable private collection from Jaeckel's heiress and niece. His manuscripts and lectures are in the Thuringian University and State Library in Jena.

Fonts (selection)

  • The coinage of the House of Habsburg, 1780–1918, and the Federal Republic of Austria, 1918–1956 (= The more recent coinage of German states . 3/4). Coins and Medals, Basel 1956. (3rd edition 1967)
  • (Ed.): Eduard von Zambaur : The coinage of Islam . Volume 1: The West and East to the Indus. With synoptic tables . F. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1968.
  • (Arr.): Old uniforms. 18th to 20th century. A colorful row of guards, field and music corps uniforms from many countries . Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-517-00462-6 .
  • with Ernst Aichner , Jürgen Kraus , Jürgen Schalkhaußer: Bavarian Army Museum, Ingolstadt (= Museum . 1981, April). Westermann, Braunschweig 1981.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Peter Jaeckel:  Jaeckel, Willy. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 263 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Unprinted dissertations and habilitation theses since 1939 . In: Gnomon 21 (1949) 3/4, pp. 1–7, here: p. 1.
  3. ↑ Tobias Mayer (arr.): Sylloge of the coins of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe in the Oriental Münzkabinett Jena (= Oriental Münzkabinett Jena . 1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-04893-X , p. Xxii.
  4. ^ Stefan Heidemann : Islamic Numismatics in Germany . In the S. (Ed.): Islamic Numismatics in Germany. An inventory (= Jena contributions to the Middle East . Vol. 2). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04269-9 , pp. 1–16, here: p. 13.
  5. ^ Hans Georg Majer : The Munich Institute. Tradition and Perspectives . In: Nurettin Demir , Erika Taube (Hrsg.): Turkologie heute. Tradition and perspective. Materials from the Third German Conference of Turkic Scientists, Leipzig, 4. – 7. October 1994 (= publications of the Societas Uralo-Altaica . Vol. 48). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04013-0 , pp. 195–203, here: p. 200.
  6. ^ Stefan Heidemann : Collections of Oriental Coins in Germany In: Joachim Gierlichs , Annette Hagedorn (Ed.): Islamic Art in Germany . von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3316-1 , pp. 25–28, here: p. 27.
  7. ^ Ernst Aichner : 125 Years of the Bavarian Army Museum . In: Kaskett. Journal of the Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum eV , Issue 20, 2004, pp. 6–12, here: p. 10.
  8. ↑ See u. a. Klaus Brisch : The coinage of Islam. Ordered in time and place. Volume I: The West and East to the Indus by Eduard von Zambaur and Peter Jaeckel . In: Kunst des Orients 7 (1970/71) 1, p. 79; Josef Matuz : The coinage of Islam in time and place. I. Volume. The west and east to the Indus with synoptic tables by Eduard von Zambaur and Peter Jaeckel . In: Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft 121 (1971) 2, pp. 355–358.
  9. ↑ History: The Oriental Coin Cabinet in Jena , oriindufa.uni-jena.de, accessed on May 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jaeckel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1996