Peter Volkelt

Peter Johannes Volkelt (born June 26, 1914 in Jena ; † January 21, 2002 in Ebersdorf near Coburg ) was a German art historian .

Life

Peter Volkelt was born as the son of the pedagogue Hans Volkelt , in turn the son of the philosopher Johannes Volkelt , and his wife Gertrud Volkelt, daughter of the chemist Arthur Hantzsch . He studied at the Steyber School and from 1925 to 1934 the Thomasschule in Leipzig . Until 1940 he studied art history , archeology and folklore at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. From 1941 to 1945 he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was briefly captured by the Soviets .

Peter Volkelt's tombstone inside the Johannes Volkelt family grave

For political reasons he went to the American zone of occupation and from 1947 worked in the photo archive of Photo Marburg . In 1948 he became an employee at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1949 he obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. His professors included Theodor Hetzer , Hermann Beenken , Johannes Jahn , Wilhelm Pinder , Richard Hamann and Richard Hamann-Mac Lean . On the recommendation of Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth , he became an assistant at the Saarland University in 1951 . In 1957 he became curator . He completed his habilitation in 1966 and became chief curator in 1969. In 1971 he became an adjunct professor . From 1977 to 1980 he was chairman of the historical association for the Saar region .

literature

• Christa Lichtenstern, Wolfgang Müller (Hrsg.): The Art History Institute of the Saarland University. Life pictures (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Philosophical faculties. Vol. 25). Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2006, ISBN 3-86110-412-1 , pp. 83 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).