Rolf Hachmann

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Rolf Hachmann (born June 19, 1917 in Blankenese ; † June 5, 2014 in Saarbrücken ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

He attended the Reformrealgymnasium in Blankenese, where he was taught by Peter Zylmann, an expert on Frisian prehistory, and passed his Abitur in 1937. After working, military and military service and escaping from English captivity, he began studying at the University of Hamburg in 1945, majoring in Prehistory with Hans Jürgen Eggers, and minor subjects in Ancient History , Ancient German Studies , Folklore , Ethnology and Geography . In mid-1949 he received his doctorate after seven semesters with studies on the Iron Age in Central Germany . In the years 1952–1953 he had a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

After his habilitation in 1955, he was a private lecturer in prehistory at the University of Hamburg. In 1959, as the successor to Vladimir Milojčić , he took over the professorship for prehistory at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . Hachmann headed the institute from 1959 to 1985. On his initiative, it was renamed Institute (later: Department ) for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology . In 1986 he retired . He was scientifically active until the end.

Act

He took part in various excavations in Turkey ( Boğazkale ) under the direction of Kurt Bittel and in Syria ( Tell Chuera ) under the direction of Anton Moortgat . In 1963, together with Arnulf Kuschke , professor of Old Testament science at the University of Mainz , he began excavations on the settlement hill ( Tell ) Kāmid el-Lōz in Lebanon . He led this excavation until it was militarily enforced at the end of 1981. In 1982, together with Jan Lichardus and Alexandar Fol , he initiated the excavations in the vicinity of the southeast Bulgarian village of Drama , which he led until his retirement.

His research covers an extensive temporal and spatial spectrum. He wrote important works on the Central European Bronze Age and on the archeology and history of the Teutons . In 1962, together with Georg Kossack and Hans Kuhn, he published a study on the so-called Northwest Bloc ("Peoples between Teutons and Celts") and in 1970 dealt with the origin of the Goths and their alleged original home in Scandinavia . Even after his retirement he continued his studies. In 1991 his investigations into the origin and formation of the Gundestrup boiler appeared . The excavation results of Kāmid el-Lōz have been published under his direction in more than 20 volumes as part of the series of Saarbrücken Contributions to Classical Studies founded by him and Walter Schmitthenner .

His doctoral students include the former state curators of Saarland Alfons Kolling and Andrei Miron , Wolfgang Adler , head of the preservation of monuments in Saarland, the mining archaeologist Gerd Weisgerber , Alfred Haffner, professor emeritus for prehistory at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel , and François Bertemes , professor of prehistoric archeology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale) .

Hachmann was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and since 1993 an honorary member of the Romanian Academy . Saarland University held a celebratory colloquium on June 30, 2007 on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Goths and Scandinavia (= sources and research on the linguistic and cultural history of the Germanic peoples. Vol. 158 = New series, Vol. 34, ISSN  0481-3596 ). de Gruyter, Berlin 1970.
  • The Germans. Nagel, Munich et al. 1971.
  • as editor: Selected bibliography on the prehistory of Central Europe. Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-04088-9 .
  • as editor: Early Phoenicians in Lebanon. 20 years of German excavations in Kāmid el-Lōz. von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0771-3 .
  • as editor: Studies on the concept of culture in prehistory and early history research (= Saarbrücker contributions to antiquity. Vol. 48). Habelt, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7749-2263-2 .
  • Gundestrup studies. Investigations into the late Celtic foundations of early Germanic art. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Vol. 71, 1991, ISSN  0341-9312 , pp. 568-903.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 14, 2014 , accessed on June 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ https://www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/festkolloquium-zum-90-geburtstag-von-professor-dr-rolf-hachmann-543/

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SURNAME Hachmann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenese
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2014
Place of death Saarbrücken