Richard Pittioni

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Richard Pittioni (born April 9, 1906 in Vienna ; † April 16, 1985 ibid) was an Austrian prehistorian and full professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Pittioni completed his habilitation in 1932, but had to resign from his teaching post in March 1938 for political reasons. After the Nazi era , he was given back his teaching license and from 1946 was a long-time director of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Vienna. The institute, which was destroyed by a bombing in 1945, was rebuilt under his leadership. In 1948, Pittioni founded the specialist and institute journal Archaeologia Austriaca and was its editor until his retirement in 1976. Before that, he was editor of the Vienna Prehistoric Journal from 1930 to 1938 and the Niederdonau, Natur und Kultur series from 1940 to 1942.

Pittioni was elected a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1957. In 1960/61 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna.

His own scientific work (around 500 publications) includes fundamental work on prehistory and early history, mining research, as well as the medieval and industrial archeology of Austria. This work and the support of numerous interested parties in the university sector shaped several generations of researchers.

Pittioni's long-term lecture series “Systematic Prehistory” was also regularly attended by foreign students who came to Vienna mainly for this reason.

Following Moriz Hoernes and Oswald Menghin , Pittioni's scientific research activities basically pursued two directions: ancient world prehistory research in its entirety and prehistory of Austria.

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a two-volume Festschrift was published in 1976 (Archaeologia Austriaca, Supplement 13 and 14). In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Awards

Works

  • La Tene in Lower Austria . Materials on the Prehistory of Austria 5, Vienna 1930.
  • "Prehistory: General Prehistory and Prehistory of Austria". Handbook for the history teacher, Erg- , Volume 1. Leipzig and Vienna, 1937.
  • "The primeval cultural development on the floor of the Waldviertel". In: Eduard Stepan: Das Waldviertel 7, Vienna 1937, p. 5ff.
  • Austria's primeval times in the picture . Leipzig and Vienna, 1938.
  • The finds from Seeboden on Lake Millstatt, Carinthia. In: Carinthia , Mitteilungen des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten , 128th year, 1938, Klagenfurt, pp. 190–196
  • Bibliography on the prehistory of the Ostmark 1930-1938 . Vienna, 1940.
  • Contributions to the prehistory of the Burgenland landscape in the Reichsgau Niederdonau . Vienna. 1941.
  • On the question of the origin of the runes and their anchoring in the culture of the European Bronze Age . Contributions to the history of the German language and literature (PBB) 65, 1942.
  • Primeval settlement area in Austria . Vienna, 1947.
  • The prehistoric foundations of European culture . Vienna, 1949.
  • From the spiritual image of man in primeval times . Vienna, 1952.
  • Prehistory of the Austrian area . Vienna, 1954.
  • From hand ax to iron sword: a short introduction to the prehistory of Lower Austria . Horn, 1964.
  • "Graves of the late bell beaker culture from Wipfing, pB Tulln, Lower Austria." Archaeologia Austriaca 37, 1965, p. 7ff.
  • "To the shackles from Mondsee, Upper Austria." Archaeologia Austriaca 44, 1968, pp. 84ff.
  • History of Austria I. Volume I / 1: Primeval times: from about 80,000 to 15. Chr. Geb. , Volume I / 2: Notes and digressions with a literature review of prehistoric research in Austria 1954-1978 . Vienna, 1980.
  • "Two noteworthy copper objects from the Austrian foothills of the Alps". Find reports from Austria 22, 1983, p. 163ff.
  • "A mousteria scraper from the salt furnace cave in the Dead Mountains (Styria)". Die Höhle 35, 1984, pp. 1ff.
  • Who made the Gundestrup silver kettle, when and where? . Memoranda (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class), 178th volume. Publications of the Celtic Commission, No. 3. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1984. ISBN 3-7001-0669-6

literature

  • Richard Pittioni: My technical curriculum vitae ... , communications from the Austrian Working Group for Prehistory and Early History XVI, 1965, p. 67f.
  • Hermann Maurer: Univ. Prof. Dr. Richard Pittioni 1906-1985 , Bulletin of the Society for Pre- and Early History 16, 1985, p. 29f.
  • Otto H. Urban:  Pittioni, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 490 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Pittioni, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1985
Place of death Vienna