Robert Bodewig

Rudolf Bodewig at the age of about 45

Robert Bodewig (born December 1, 1857 in Wermelskirchen -Belten; † December 4, 1923 in Oberlahnstein ) was a German high school teacher, historian and, as an autodidact, archaeologist and route commissioner for the Reich Limes Commission (RLK).

Live and act

Robert Bodewig, who came from a humble background, worked as an elementary teacher in Remscheid from 1878 to 1881 and graduated from high school in Barmen in 1882 . He then studied history, geography, Latin and Greek, first from the summer semester 1882 to the winter semester 1884/1885 in Berlin, then from the summer semester 1885 to the winter semester 1885/1886 in Münster, where he passed the first teaching qualification in 1886. In the same year he began a trial year at the high school Barmen and graduated at the Academy Münster Dr. phil. In 1887 he became a teacher at the secondary school for girls in Unterbarmen . The year 1888 saw him as the founding rector of the higher boys' school in Bünde , today's Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium . In 1890 he moved to Oberlahnstein and was initially an assistant teacher at the Realprogymnasium there. Just one year later, he advanced to the position of senior teacher there. He held this position until his retirement at the beginning of 1923. In 1906 he was appointed "Council IV Class" and professor. In 1914 he was awarded the "Red Eagle Order IV Class". From 1921 to 1922 he was acting headmaster of the Oberlahnsteiner Gymnasium.

In 1897 Bodewig was appointed route commissioner of the Reich Limes Commission by ministerial decree . As such, he was responsible for the local excavation management of the forts Hunzel , Heddesdorf , Marienfels and Ems as well as the small forts Becheln and Pohl . In addition, he examined and published the Roman road network in the area between the Lahn and Aar in the Limeswerk . On " Winckelmannstag " (December 9th) 1899 he was appointed a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

In 1904 Bodewig became chairman of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein, of which he had been a member since 1894 as secretary and secretary. He held this office until his death. Bodewig's finds formed the basis of the collections of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein and thus the local history museum for Oberlahnstein and the St. Goarshausen district founded in 1914 . The museum was closed in 1945, but continued in the Museum of the City of Lahnstein in the Hexenturm, which opened in 1965 .

Robert Bodewig died on December 3, 1923 at the age of 66 in Oberlahnstein, three days after his 66th birthday. In 1969 the city of Oberlahnstein named a street in the village after Robert Bodewig.

Fonts (selection)

• 1897: The Hunzel fort . In the series Der Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. Ernst Fabricius , Felix Hettner , Oscar von Sarwey ), Department B, Volume 1
• 1903: The Heddesdorf fort . In the series The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. E. Fabricius, F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey), Section B, Volume 1
• 1903: The Marienfels earth fort . In the series The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. E. Fabricius, F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey), Section B, Volume 1
• 1911: The Ems fort . In the series The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. E. Fabricius, F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey), Section B, Volume 1
• 1911: The road network in the area of the limes from the Lahn to Aar I . In the series The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. E. Fabricius, F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey), Section A, Volume 1.1
• 1914: The road network in the area of the limes from the Lahn to Aar I . In the series The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreiches (Eds. E. Fabricius, F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey), Department A, Volume 1.2

These and other writings appeared in the so-called Bodewig Edition of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein:

• Prof. Dr. Robert Bodewig. Teacher - historian - archaeologist . Vol. 1: Larger fonts. Collected and edited by Hans G. Kuhn. Garwain, Koblenz 1998, ISBN 3-9806009-3-9
• Prof. Dr. Robert Bodewig. Teacher - historian - archaeologist . Vol. 2: Smaller writings, life and work. Collected and edited by Hans G. Kuhn. Imprimatur, Lahnstein 2005, ISBN 3-9807361-7-2

(Additional under)

literature

• Bernd Geil: Robert Bodewig was born 150 years ago . In: Rhein-Lahn-Kurier , No. 48 of November 8, 2007, also online
• Hans G. Kuhn: Robert Bodewig. Attempt a biography . In: Prof. Dr. Robert Bodewig. Teacher - historian - archaeologist . Vol. 2: Smaller writings, life and work. Collected and edited by Hans G. Kuhn. Imprimatur, Lahnstein 2005, ISBN 3-9807361-7-2 , also online (PDF; 246 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Bodewig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Bodewig at the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein
• Robert Bodewig's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Remarks

1. ^ Museum in the Hexenturm on the website of the city of Lahnstein.
2. ↑ A detailed bibliography ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2009 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. is on the website of the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein.