Robert Heidenreich (archaeologist)

Robert Heidenreich , actually Robert Karl Hugo Arthur (born September 8, 1899 in Opole , Province of Silesia , † November 20, 1990 in Leipzig ) was a German professor of classical archeology at the University of Jena and the University of Leipzig .

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After completing his school career, Heidenreich served in the German Army from 1917 during the First World War , was wounded in 1918 and received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. After the end of the war, Heidenreich studied classical archeology at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg from 1920 to 1925 . He then obtained his doctorate in 1926. phil. at the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation : Contributions to the history of the Near Eastern stone cutting art . From 1926 to 1927 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in Italy. Heidenreich traveled to Greece in 1927 to excavate the Temple of Aphrodite in Aegina . From 1927 to 1928 he was a member of the German Samo Expedition and in 1928 took part in the excavation of the city of Shechem near Nablus in Palestine . From 1928 to 1929 he was a member of the expedition to Ctesiphon on the Tigris (Mesopotamia).

From 1929 to 1936 Heidenreich was a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Leipzig University. In 1931 he completed his habilitation in Classical Archeology with the thesis The Prehistory of Kastro Tigani on Samos . From 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP . In November 1933 he was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . From 1937 to 1939 he was a private lecturer in ethnology of the ancient Mediterranean world at the Philological and Historical Department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. In 1938/39 he directed the re-recording of the mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna on behalf of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . After the outbreak of World War II , Heidenreich was drafted into the Wehrmacht , in which he served until 1940. From 1940 to 1943 he was Associate Professor of Classical Archeology in Leipzig and from 1940 to 1941 he represented the chair in Bonn. From 1943 to 1945 there was a new draft for military service in the naval artillery, where he was a boatman and in 1944 received the War Merit Cross. He was later taken prisoner by the British .

After the end of the war, Heidenreich lived from 1945 to 1951 as a private scholar without income in Sondershausen . From 1951 to 1953 as a private teacher in old and new languages ​​with relatives in Groß-Ellenbach in the Odenwald. From 1953 to 1959 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Jena and, as Director of the Archaeological Institute, was entrusted with the collection of ancient cabaret and the Archaeological Museum. From 1954 to 1959 he was Head of Classical Archeology at the University of Jena and from 1955 to 1959 Dean of the Philosophical Faculty in Jena. From 1959 to 1965 Heidenreich was Professor at Leipzig University and Director of the Archaeological Institute at Karl Marx University Leipzig. From 1961 to 1965 he was acting director of the Philological Institute of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig.

Publications (selection)

• The tomb of Theodoric in Ravenna . Examines u. interpreted by Robert Heidenreich a. Heinz Johannes . Among employees by Christian Johannes u. Dieter Johannes. German Archaeolog. Inst, Steiner, Wiesbaden 1971
• The tomb of Theodoric in Ravenna (= war lectures of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn am Rhein , issue 102), Bonn 1943.
• A ship's beak in the Leipzig Archaeological Collection. In memory of the founder of the Leipzig Winkelmann celebrations, presented by the Archaeological Seminar of the University of Leipzig on December 13, 1930
• (with Johannes Jahn and Wilhelm v. Jenny): Dictionary of Art , Kröner, Stuttgart 1939. (7 editions until 1966)

literature

• Heres, Gerald: Robert Heidenreich † , in: Gnomon 63 (1991) pp. 573-575

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Heidenreich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium