Renate Pirling

Renate Pirling (born August 24, 1929 in Nürtingen ) is a German prehistory and early historian .

Life

Renate Pirling's father was the Nürtingen architect Alfred Pirling. She first studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Tübingen , before moving on to prehistory and early history and in 1954, receiving her doctorate from the University of Munich with a thesis entitled The Middle Bronze Age in Württemberg .

In 1955 she worked for the first time at the Museum Burg Linn in Krefeld , whose director she was from 1961 until her retirement in 1994. Since 1959 she carried out excavations in the Roman-Franconian burial ground of Gelduba in Krefeld-Gellep . Here she uncovered around 6,000 graves from the period between the 1st and 8th centuries. The most important of these is the Frankish princely grave of Arpvar von Krefeld-Gellep , which was uncovered in 1962 . In 1995 she was awarded the title of professor for her scientific merits.

Fonts

• A Franconian princely grave from Krefeld-Gellep . In: Germania 42, 1964, pp. 188-216
• with Otto Doppelfeld : Franconian princes in the Rhineland. (= Writings of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , Volume 2) Düsseldorf 1966
• The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep . Steiner, Berlin 1974, (= Germanic Monuments of the Migration Period, Series B, The Franconian Antiquities of the Rhineland Volume 8)
• The excavations in Krefeld-Gellep . In: Excavations in the Rhineland '77. Rheinland-Verlag Köln, Bonn 1978, pp. 136–140
• The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep . de Gruyter, Berlin 1979, (= Germanic Monuments of the Migration Period, Series B, The Franconian Antiquities of the Rhineland Volume 10)
• Romans and Franks in Krefeld-Gellep. Zabern, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-8053-0893-0
• New excavations in the Krefeld-Gellep cemetery. In: Villages and Cities. Excavations in the Rhineland 1985/86. Rheinland-Verlag Köln, Bonn 1987, pp. 57-60
• Krefeld-Gellep. The burial grounds. In: Heinz-Günter Horn (Ed.): The Romans in North Rhine-Westphalia. Licensed edition of the 1987 edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-59-7 , pp. 534-536
• The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep . Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, (= Germanic monuments of the migration period series B, The Franconian antiquities of the Rhineland, Volume 13)
• with Margareta Siepen: The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep 1975–1982 . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-515-06916-X , (= Germanic monuments of the migration period, series B, The Franconian antiquities of the Rhineland, Volume 17)
• with Margareta Siepen: The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep 1983–1988 . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07453-8 , (= Germanic monuments of the migration period, series B, The Franconian antiquities of the Rhineland, Volume 18)
• with Margareta Siepen: The Roman-Franconian burial ground of Krefeld-Gellep 1989–2000 . Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-07974-2 , (= Germanic monuments of the migration period, series B, The Franconian antiquities of the Rhineland, Volume 19)
• with Margareta Siepen: The finds from the Roman graves of Krefeld-Gellep: Catalog of the graves 6348–6361. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08891-6 , (= Germanic monuments of the migration period, series B, The Franconian antiquities of the Rhineland, Volume 20)