Rudolf Noll

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Rudolf Noll (born April 17, 1906 in Gänserndorf ; † April 27, 1990 in Vienna ) was an Austrian archaeologist .

The son of a district manager of the Niederösterreichische Landesbahnen attended the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg and passed the Matura there. Hans Oellacher was his teacher there and was decisive for Noll's choice of studies. He studied Classical Philology, Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Vienna . His academic teachers were Emil Reisch , Emanuel Loewy , Arnold Schober and especially Rudolf Egger . For Egger, Noll took part in excavations in Virunum , Duel and Carnuntum . He received his doctorate in 1930 . He then worked for three years in a badly paid trial service in the antique collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum . From 1938 he worked on the hoard find from the " Iupiter Dolichenus sanctuary" of the Roman camp Locus Felicis , the so-called Dolichenus find from Mauer an der Url . From the district administration , he was appointed in March 1938 to the cell leader in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. He became a member of the NSDAP and received membership number 6,127,590. At Noll's suggestion, on the day of the referendum on the “Anschluss” of Austria to the German Reich, the propaganda exhibition “On April 10, 1938” took place in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Noll was assigned to the air protection department and played a major role in ensuring that the museum survived the war without serious damage. From 1940 he did military service in the air intelligence force. At the end of the war he was a sergeant. Noll returned to Vienna in 1947 from a Yugoslav prisoner of war. He had to earn some living for his family as a cinema ticket salesman. From 1951 he was editor of the news paper " Pro Austria Romana " (PAR). With this he founded one of the most important publication organs for research into the Roman era in Austria. In 1952 he joined the Kunsthistorisches Museum as a contract employee. Noll became head of the antiques department in 1958 and director in 1963. He made the Heroon of Trysa available to the public for the first time.

Noll's main works are the 1947 edition of Eugippius' Vita Sancti Severini . In 1949 he published the presentation of the Art of the Roman Age in Austria , which is considered one of the best books on the subject. He also wrote the book Early Christianity in Austria in 1954 . He has been awarded numerous honors and memberships for his research. He was a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (1955) and the German Archaeological Institute (1961). In 1963 he became an honorary professor at the University of Vienna. From 1966 he was a corresponding and from 1970 a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . The state of Lower Austria awarded him the Award for Science in 1972. Also in 1972 he became an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History . Noll was honored with the Wilhelm Hartel Prize . A memorial plaque was put up for him at Gänserndorf train station in 1996.

Noll had married in 1933. The marriage produced a son.

Fonts (selection)

A list of publications appeared in: Hermann Vetters : Rudolf Noll. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1989/90. 140th year, Vienna 1990, pp. 365–379, here: pp. 370–379.

  • The life of Saint Severin. Latin and German (= writings and sources of the old world. Vol. 11). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963.
  • The Roman burial ground of Salurn (= archaeological research in Tyrol. Vol. 2). Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 1963.
  • Early Christianity in Austria. From the beginning to around 600 AD. Deuticke, Vienna 1954.
  • Art of Roman times in Austria. Academic joint publishing house, Salzburg 1949.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Susanne Hehenberger, Monika Löscher: Actors in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: Personnel Continuities and Breaks 1933/34 - 1938 - 1945. In: Tanja Baensch, Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier, Dorothee Wimmer (eds.): Museums in National Socialism: Actors - Places - politics. Cologne et al. 2016, pp. 129–146, here: p. 131.
  2. ↑ Herbert Haupt: The Art History Museum. The history of the Haus am Ring. A hundred years as reflected in historical events. Vienna 1991, pp. 128 and 156.
  3. ^ Hermann Vetters: Rudolf Noll. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1989/90. 140th year, Vienna 1990, pp. 365–379, here: p. 366.
personal data
SURNAME Noll, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gänserndorf
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1990
Place of death Vienna