Sigulf Guggenmos

Sigulf Guggenmos (born October 16, 1941 in Kaufbeuren ; † September 26, 2018 ) was a German amateur archaeologist . He was the discoverer of the site of the fossil great ape named after him, Danuvius guggenmosi of the genus Danuvius .

Life

Guggenmos learned the trade of Wagner in his father's company and then completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and worked for the Kaufbeuren city administration until his retirement . As an autodidact , he acquired his knowledge in the field of archeology as well as prehistory and early history. He had two children with his wife Lotte.

Researches

Guggenmos made his first Stone Age finds together with Rolf Schmid and Jörg Schröppel in the 1960s north of the Bannwaldsee on the Forggensee near Füssen in the Ostallgäu .

In 1972 he discovered the first artifacts in the hammer forge near Pforzen . Here have been through it later eponymous bones of the anthropoid apes the type Danuvius guggenmosi excavated. Together with Manfred Schmid, he first presented his find to the University of Munich and later to the University of Tübingen . On the latter, Madelaine Böhme demonstrated that it is an 11.62 million year old extinct great ape that may have already moved on two legs.

In total, Guggenmos discovered 44 Stone Age and numerous other prehistoric sites, especially on Lake Forggensee and in the vicinity of his home town of Dösingen . With Jörg Schröppel and Prof. Herbert Scholz, he designed an exhibition about the Stone Age in the Allgäu, which was on view in the Zumsteinhaus in Kempten for around 20 years from 1984 .

Honors

2004: Bavarian Archeology Prize
2019: Posthumous naming of the species of the genus Danuvius Danuvius guggenmosi after him

Individual evidence

↑ Birgit Gehlen, Armin Guggenmos & Werner Zanier: A life for archeology in the Allgäu. In: academia.edu. Bavarian Archeology, accessed December 21, 2019 .
↑ Jessica Stiegelmayer: The forefather of the sensational find . Ed .: Augsburger Allgemeine. November 8, 2019, p. 11 .
↑ Lisa Hauger: Bones of great apes in the clay pit Pforzen: What archaeologists have found in them earlier. In: all-in.de. Allgäuer Zeitung, November 7, 2019, accessed on December 21, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Guggenmos, Sigulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German amateur archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH	26th September 2018

[1] Birgit Gehlen, Armin Guggenmos & Werner Zanier: A life for archeology in the Allgäu. In: academia.edu. Bavarian Archeology, accessed December 21, 2019 .

[2] Jessica Stiegelmayer: The forefather of the sensational find . Ed .: Augsburger Allgemeine. November 8, 2019, p. 11 .

[3] Lisa Hauger: Bones of great apes in the clay pit Pforzen: What archaeologists have found in them earlier. In: all-in.de. Allgäuer Zeitung, November 7, 2019, accessed on December 21, 2019 .