Rudolf Echt

Rudolf Echt (born September 9, 1950 in Völklingen - Wehrden ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

After graduating from high school in the summer of 1968, he first studied art history and German at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken from the winter semester 1968/69 . After an interruption due to military service from 1969 to 1971, he took up the study of art history again and chose prehistory and early history , medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences as further subjects. After receiving his doctorate in 1979 as Dr. phil. In art history, he took up the position of a research assistant at Saarland University in the then department of Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology , which was headed by Rolf Hachmann . He worked on the institute's excavation project on the Tell Kāmid el-Lōz settlement hill in Lebanon , in which he had participated as a student since 1972. In 1984 he published an important paper on the stratigraphy of the settlement mound. After obtaining his habilitation in 1992 in prehistory and early history of the Celtic princess grave of Reinheim , he held a teaching position at the University of Metz in 1999 . In 2004 he was appointed adjunct professor at Saarland University. He has been retired since October 2017.

His main research interests are pre-Roman iron age, paleometallurgy and prehistoric and early historical art.

Echt is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Émile Boeswillwald as a monument conservator. Investigations into problems and methods of French monument preservation in the 19th century (= studies on building research . Volume 13) (= Saarbrücken contributions to antiquity . Volume 39). Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2067-2 (also dissertation, Saarbrücken 1979).
The stratigraphy (= report on the results of the excavations in Kāmid el-Lōz . Volume 5) (= Saarbrücken contributions to the ancient world . Volume 34). Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2023-0 .
with Wolf-Rüdiger Thiele: From Wallerfangen to Waldalgesheim. A contribution to late Hallstatt and early La Tène goldsmithing work (= Saarbrücker studies and materials on antiquity . Volume 3). Habelt, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7749-2668-9 .
The princess grave of Reinheim. Studies on the cultural history of the early La Tène period (= Blesa . Volume 2) (= Saarbrücken contributions to antiquity . Volume 69). Habelt, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7749-2952-1 (also habilitation thesis, Saarbrücken 1992).

Ralf Gleser and Frauke Stein (eds.): External impetus and internal change. Festschrift for Rudolf Echt on his 65th birthday (= International Archeology. Studia honoraria . Volume 37). Leidorf, Rahden 2015, ISBN 3-89646-556-2 .