Thea Elisabeth Haevernick

Thea Elisabeth Haevernick (born July 31, 1899 in Rostock ; † April 14, 1982 in Marburg ) was a German prehistorian who worked in Mainz and Marburg and was primarily concerned with researching prehistoric glass finds .

Haevernick was the daughter of the officer Oskar Haevernick and Elisabeth, geb. by Maltzan Freiin zu Wartenberg and Penzlin. The trained nurse studied, admitted with a special examination, prehistory and early history in Marburg (and one semester each in Hamburg and Breslau). The doctorate, as the only woman among 29 male pre-war graduates, took place on July 12, 1939 on "Glass arm rings and ring pearls" with Gero von Merhart . Her first professional position was a position as a scientific unskilled worker without a degree at the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich since 1938 , then she took part in the filming of French specialist libraries in Paris in 1941/42 and worked at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Poznan in 1942/43 . After the war, during which she worked as a nurse and was briefly imprisoned in 1945, she held several temporary positions, for example in 1945 at the Research Institute for Art History in Marburg, from 1948 at the Museum of the City of Regensburg, at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Marburg, from 1950 on the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt, from 1956 to 1964 at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz and finally in research projects at the University of Marburg . Their collection of around 3000 prehistoric glass beads, which the Marburg Prehistory Seminar had edited in a multi-volume edition, is now in the Wertheim Glass Museum .

Publications (selection)

• The glass arm rings and ring pearls of the Middle and Late Latène Period on the European mainland. With a contribution by Paula Hahn-Weinheimer . Habelt, Bonn 1960 (at the same time: Marburg / Lahn, Philipps University, phil. Dissertation, 1939).

literature

• Niklot Klüßendorf : Haevernick, Thea-Elisabeth Mathilde Helene Anna Irmgard Fanny Alexandrine Auguste Amelie. In: Andreas Röpcke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 5, Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-7950-3746-8 , pp. 153–156 (with picture).
• Uta Halle : Women in Prehistory and Early History Research between 1933 and 1945 - two careers. In: Jana Esther Fries , Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann (ed.): Excavators, researchers, pioneers. Selected portraits of early archaeologists in the context of their time. Waxmann, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2872-0 , pp. 169-215.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thea Elisabeth Haevernick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Wertheim Glass Museum