Peter Pieper

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Peter Pieper (2002)

Peter Pieper (born April 16, 1953 in Bochum ) is a German prehistorian , runologist and forensic archaeologist .

Life

Pieper attended the Vinzenz Pallotti boarding school in Rheinbach and the state high school in Bochum . After graduating from high school in 1972, he did two years of community service at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Bochum. From 1974 he studied classical archeology ( Bernard Andreae , Klaus Fittschen ), prehistory and early history ( Gerhard Mildenberger ), ancient history ( Géza Alföldy , Karl-Wilhelm Welwei ) and art history ( Max Imdahl , Manfred Wundram ) at the Ruhr University Bochum . After three semesters, he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He majored in Prehistory and Protohistory with Klaus Raddatz , Jürgen Driehaus , Herbert Jankuhn and Gerhard Bosinski . As a minor he studied classical archeology with Hartmut Döhl and Christof Boehringer , Egyptology with Wolfhart Westendorf and Friedrich Junge , Near Eastern archeology with Klaus Schippmann and art history with Karl Arndt . He also took paleoanthropology with László von Károlyi, paleoethnobotanics with Ulrich Willerding , palynology and climatic dynamics with Hans-Jürgen Beug , archaeobotany and vegetation history with Karl-Ernst Behre and paleopathology with Michael Schultz . He wrote his doctoral thesis with Renate Rolle . In 1987 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate (“very good”). After that he was excavation manager at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Braunschweig for two years . On May 1, 1990, he went to his mentor Wolfgang Bonte at the University of Düsseldorf , where he worked as an expert in archaeological forgeries , forensic osteology , taphonomy and paleography at the Institute for Forensic Medicine in the University Hospital Düsseldorf . In 1993 he was one of the organizers of the World Congress of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS). He succeeded in reconstructing the wound in Wolfgang Grams' case ( GSG-9 deployment in Bad Kleinen ).

Work areas

Pieper at work (2012)

Pieper's scientific interest is particularly paleoanthropology and paleopathology (especially osteology ), runology and dactyloscopy , experimental archeology (processing and engraving, e.g. of bones ) and materials science.

As the world's first forensic archaeologist, Pieper is also involved in the investigation of crimes , some of which occurred a long time ago. This interdisciplinary field of forensics was reopened , not least through the lifting of the statute of limitations for murder through the amendment of Section 78 (2) StGB in 1979, because every homicidal offense has since been investigated. Pieper has been studying nail-pierced skulls of executed people as well as body marks , mummified hands of victims of medieval and early modern homicides for years . He proved years of unexplained infant murder and dealt with fraud and forgery in science . He is also a recognized specialist in bog corpses .

Using Germanic wooden swords, he proved that the Roman general Germanicus had returned to the site of the Varus Battle on his so-called vengeance campaign in 15 AD . He identified soldiers of the United States Air Force who had been shot down with their bombers near Nienburg / Weser in 1944 . He examined several bog bodies from the Oldenburg State Museum for Nature and Man and the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover . Among them were the boy from Kayhausen , the man from Jührdenerfeld , the girl from Bareler Moor , the man from Husbäke in 1931 , the man from Husbäke in 1936 and the man from New England . Pieper also examined Otto von Linn's skeleton .

Pieper has been working with the world's leading Göttingen runologist Klaus Düwel for decades . The two autopsied many old and new finds together. Unlike the Weser rune bones, the runes found in Deventer turned out to be forgeries with a National Socialist background. Pieper's probably most significant achievement was the deciphering of the eponymous mirror runes on the burial urns from Spong Hill in Norfolk , England ; they were adopted as mirrored runes in the English language . Pieper also described the microrunes , the smallest rune inscriptions known to date.

Fencing master

In the Corps Neoborussia-Berlin zu Bochum (1974) he distinguished himself as a sub-senior and consenior . In the Göttingen Corps Teutonia-Hercynia (1975) he was able to clip the consenior twice . From 1979 he completed his training to become a qualified fencing teacher at the Association of Fencing Masters in Marburg . In 1980, further training followed in Erlangen, Nuremberg and Bayreuth , which he completed with the VdF fencing master's certificate. In 1980, "the fast beeper" became a fencing master at the University of Göttingen, a later successor to the Göttingen Saxon Hans von Goldacker (1910–1970). The Academy of Fencing Art in Germany accepted him in 1996 as Maître d'académie d'armes international .

Publications

anthropology

  • with Ralf W. Schmitz: Cuts and scratches - anthropogenic changes on the skeleton of the prehistoric man from the Neandertal. Preliminary findings. In: The Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, reports from the work of the museum. 2/1992, pp. 17-19.
  • with Wolfgang Bonte: Forensic-Archaeological Dating of Human Remains. In: Medicina Legalis Baltica. 7, 1996, p. 1922.
  • Bog bodies. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 20, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017164-3 , pp. 222-229.
  • A distinguished personality - not just a simple nailing. In: Ralf Wiechmann, G. Bräuer, K. Püschel (eds.): Klaus Störtebeker. Munich 2003, pp. 135–147.
  • with Britta Schlüter: nailed human skulls. In: Jost Auler (ed.): Execution site archeology I . Dormagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938473-07-8 , pp. 388-411.
  • with Ursula Koch, Kurt W. Alt, Christina Jacob, Frank Reiser, Peer Friedel, Andreas Pfeiffer and Friedel Werner: Franken in Heilbronn. Archaeological finds from the 6th and 7th centuries . Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-930811-00-6 .
  • The human skull with nail findings from Langenfeld / Rhld. In: Richtstättenarchäologie 2. Dormagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938473-12-2 .
  • with S. Schlager and U. Wittwer-Ofen: Execution and determent - Giving a face to the Langenfeld skull. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Anthropology. 16, 2011, pp. 63-70.
  • with E. Michler and A. Stauffer: The nailed human skull from Langenfeld. In: Textiles in archeology. 2001, pp. 105-113.
  • Leibzeichen - Forgotten legal monuments. In: Place of execution archeology III. 2012, ISBN 978-3-938473-17-7 , pp. 564-604.

Experimental archeology

  • Autopsy and experiments on the runic inscription on Pietroassa's gold ring. In: Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 37, Festschrift for Klaus Düwel, 2003, pp. 595–646.
  • Pietroassa. § 2. Runological a. Find and research history. Autopsy and experiments. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, TI. 23, 2003, col. 153-155.
  • with E. Godehardt, J. Jaworski and HM Schellenberg: The reconstruction of Scythian bows. In: The Cutting Edge. Archaeological studies in combat and weaponry. 2007, pp. 112-133.

Fakes

  • with TJ Maarleveld: Remarkable prehistoric fragments nogmals bekeken. In: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden. 64, 1983, pp. 229-243.
  • Notes on the Liebenauer tweezers, Doijum bones and Deventer bones. In: Nytt om Runer. 5, 1991, pp. 10-12.
  • Counterfeiting - Detection Methods. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 8, Delivery 1/2, 1991, pp. 107-111.
  • with Jürgen Thissen and Frank Musshoff: The Middle Palaeolithic from Liedberg. In: Bonner Jahrbücher. 193, 1994, pp. 221-233.
  • with Wolfgang Bonte, Thijs J. Maarleveld and AJT Jull: Original or Fake? Qualifying Runic Inscriptions on Bone. In: Advances in Forensic Sciences. 3, 1995, pp. 289-294.
  • The engravings in the small shoulder hole: “Real” or “false”? Reflections on the problem of their qualifications and dating. In: Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 51, The futhark and its individual language developments. 2006, pp. 385-394.
  • "Runes" in America. In: S. Burmeister, H. Derks, J. von Richthofen (Ed.): Forty-two. Festschrift for Michael's 65th birthday fee . In: International Archeology - Studia honoraria. 2008, pp. 339-350.
  • with Britta Schlüter and Jost Auler : A "rune stone" from Dormagen-Stürzelberg, Rhein-Kreis Neuss - "original" or "fake"? In: The Lower Rhine. Journal of the Niederrhein Association. Vol. 77 H. 1, 2010, pp. 12-16.

Forensic osteology

  • with W. Bonte: Forensic Medicine and Sachsenspiegel. In: The sat speyghel. Sachsenspiegel - law - everyday life. Archaeological communications from northwest Germany. Supplement 10, Volume 2, 1995, pp. 423-432.
  • with W. Bonte: Medieval death penalties and their morphological correlates. In: Medicina Legalis Baltica. 7, 1996, pp. 27-31.

paleography

  • with Bernd Habermann: Viva in vin. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. 7, 2004, pp. 82-85.
  • with B. Habermann: vessel of wine. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. 9, 2006, pp. 41-44.
  • with B. Habermann: amber beads with runes from Immenbeck. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. 14, 2011, pp. 98-101.

Runes

  • The Oldenburg runebones. In: Runor och runinskrifter. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Konferenser, Stockholm, 15, 1987, pp. 221–244.
  • The Bones with Runic Inscriptions from the Lower Weser River. In: Old English Runes and their Continental Background = English Research. 217, 1991, pp. 343-358.
  • "Curse of consecration" or "curse of consecration". Imitative combat magic among the Teutons according to the testimony of runic inscriptions. In: Studies on Saxony Research. 13, 1999, pp. 303-324.
  • The rune buckle from Pforzen (Allgäu). Aspects of Interpretation . 2: Technological observations and runographic considerations. In: Pforzen and Bergakker. New research on runic inscriptions. 1999, ISBN 3-525-26231-0 , pp. 25-35.
  • with Gerhard Fingerlin and K. Düwel: A runic inscription from Bad Krozingen. In: Supplementary volumes to the RGA. Volume 43, 2004, pp. 224-265.
  • Spong Hill . § 2. Mirror runes. RGA, vol. 29, 2006, col. 380-382.
  • with A. Bauer: The S-Primer from Aschheim. A contribution to the linguistic history of Old High German. In: Amsterdam Contributions to Older German Studies. Volume 67, 2011, pp. 23-44.
  • with Britta Schlüter-Pieper: On the current state of technological possibilities in the microscopic documentation of runic inscriptions using the example of the bow brooch from Beuchte, district of Wolfenbüttel. In: Series of publications by the Archaeological State Museum Schleswig, supplementary series. Volume 11, 2015, pp. 333-346.

Taphonomy

  • with Marion Brüggler: Two remarkable burials from Ihlow. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. 9, 2006, pp. 141-143.

Others

  • with Matthias D. Schön: Symbols and signs - art and craft in the prehistory of the Elbe-Weser triangle . (= Guide to exhibitions and landmarks in the district of Cuxhaven. Issue 11). Bremerhaven 1991.
  • Stratigraphy and typology - useful archaeological methods in the wider field of forensic medicine. In: Zentralblatt Rechtsmedizin. 36, 1992, p. 325.
  • with W. Bonte: Archeology and Legal Medicine. Forensic osteology. Anthropology, biomechanics, clinic, archeology, commemorative publication for Steffen Berg. In: Forensic Medicine Research Results. 10, 1995, pp. 171-185.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Weser runebones. New investigations into the problem: original or fake .
  2. ↑ spiegel.de
  3. ↑ P. Pieper: Weser runes. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. TI. 33, 2006, col. 494-505.
  4. ↑ University Hospital Düsseldorf
  5. ↑ P. Pieper: A miraculous hand - The body mark of Erkeln. In: M. Wittig (Ed.): Erkeln 856-2006. Pp. 84-93. Detmold 2006.
  6. ↑ German Medicine Radio (2012) ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ RP-online
  8. ^ P. Pieper, W. Bonte: Punishment or posthumous appearance in court? In: Archeology in Germany. 1/1997, p. 47.
  9. ↑ RP-online
  10. ↑ T + K (2003) (PDF file; 15 kB)
  11. ↑ Quarks & Co , February 10, 1998.
  12. ^ P. Pieper et al.: Moor corpses. In: Mamoun Fansa (ed.): Neither lake nor land. Bog - a lost landscape . Oldenburg (Old.) 1999, ISBN 3-89598-591-0 .
  13. ↑ Wooden swords ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-duesseldorf.de
  14. ↑ Photographs (Christa Loose) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christaloose.de
  15. ↑ W. Bonte, P. Pieper: Original or Fake? A contribution to the qualification of the so-called Weser rune bones. In: Archives for Criminology. 168, 1981, pp. 65-77.
  16. ↑ P. Pieper, TJ Maarleveld, JT Jull: Ideology and Forgery - The Deventer Bones. In: Forensic Science International. 54, 1992, pp. 93-101.
  17. ↑ P. Pieper: The Weserrunes in the light of new investigations. In: Low German Yearbook. 111, 1988, pp. 9-30 (Neumünster)
  18. ↑ P. Pieper: The runic stamps of Spong Hill: Pseudorunes or runic formula? In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony. 17, 1986, pp. 181-200 (Hildesheim)
  19. ^ P. Pieper: Spiegelrunen. In: Runor och runinskrifter. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Konferenser. 15, 1987, pp. 67-72 (Stockholm)
  20. ↑ P. Pieper, M. Weis, P. Konieczka: A new rune find from the Merovingian burial ground of Stetten. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. 21/2, 1991, pp. 309-316.
  21. ↑ P. Pieper: Amelgund - on the runic inscription from the women's grave 133 of Stetten ad Donau and on the question of Alemannic "rune masters". In: Personnamn i nordiska och andra germanska fornspråk = NORNA-Rapporter. 51, 1993, pp. 81-84. Uppsala
  22. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 105/339; 172/398.
  23. ^ Academy of Fencing Art in Germany (PDF file; 4.84 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beeper, Pit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian, runologist and forensic archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum