Udelgard Körber-Grohne

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Udelgard Körber-Grohne (born July 11, 1923 in Hamburg ; † November 6, 2014 in Wiesensteig ) was a German archaeobotanist .

Life

Udelgard Körber-Grohne grew up in Bremen and studied biology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald during the Second World War , then in Braunschweig . Until her marriage, she worked at the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh and Wurten Research in Wilhelmshaven , where she was responsible for the archaeobotanical analysis in the archaeological excavation project for the Feddersen Wierde settlement .

After a family break and the death of her husband, Körber-Grohne moved to the University of Hohenheim in 1970 and worked at the Botanical Institute there under Burkhard Frenzel . In the following years she became involved in the field of archaeobotany in southern Germany, where this discipline was largely orphaned after its early beginnings. Since 1973 she has presented edits of botanical material from excavations in the state in numerous scientific and popular science publications for the Baden-Württemberg State Monument Preservation. She completed her habilitation with her research on Feddersen Wierde and had a lasting impact on her subject with her publications and through her students. Renowned archaeobotanists emerged from a working group she founded. She held a professorship at the University of Hohenheim until she retired in 1988.

Körber-Grohne was a member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Selected publications

  • Geobotanical studies on the Feddersen Wierde. ( Feddersen Wierde , Vol. 1), Steiner Franz Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3515005548 .
  • Useful plants and the environment in Roman Germania. ( Small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of Southwest Germany , Vol. 21) Stuttgart 1979.
  • Useful plants in Germany. Cultural history and biology. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0481-0 .
  • Plums, cherry plums, sloes. Today's plants and their history since the early days. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1212-0 .

literature

  • Hansjörg Küster (Ed.): The prehistoric man and his environment. Festschrift for Udelgard Körber-Grohne on his 65th birthday. ( Research and reports on the prehistory and early history of Baden-Württemberg , vol. 31) Stuttgart 1988 (with list of publications).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary in "Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg", Vol. 44 No. 1 (2015). March 17, 2015, accessed June 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Körber-Grohne, Udelgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeobotanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2014
Place of death Wiesensteig