Volkmar Geupel

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Volkmar Geupel (2019)

Volkmar Geupel (born February 13, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German prehistoric historian .

Life

Geupel grew up in Hellerau . As a teenager, he supported Gerhard Billig's excavations on the deserted Vorwerk Knapsdorf and in the Wilschdorf district . After studying prehistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1959 to 1963 , Geupel became an assistant at the State Museum for Prehistory in Dresden in 1967 . Initially, he was responsible for the preservation of monuments in the areas of Freital , Dippoldiswalde , Freiberg and Marienberg . Initially, his main focus was on Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites and finds in Saxony.

His work focus switched to the settlement history of the central Ore Mountains , and he carried out numerous excavations at mansions and castles in the Ore Mountains. At some of these facilities, through targeted archaeological investigations, he was able to record their importance for the first time (e.g. Nidberg Castle ) or to re-evaluate their significance and document their characteristics. According to Yves Hoffmann , it is thanks to Geupel's work that the area is the "archaeologically best-researched low mountain range in Central Germany ". In 2013 he summarized his numerous publications on the subject in a guide to the castles and fortified churches in the Ore Mountains District.

In 1970 Geupel was appointed district floor conservationist for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . From 1983 he headed the Department of Ground Monument Preservation at the State Museum of Prehistory. After the reunification , Geupel was head of the department for the administrative region of Chemnitz in the Saxon State Office for Archeology . He retired in 2005, but continues to publish his research results and head archaeological excursions in his research area.

Publications

  • The protected soil monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (= small writings of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Issue 3, ISSN  0232-5446 ). State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 1983.
  • Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic in the south of the GDR. Catalog. Part 1: Districts Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Volume 17). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1985.
  • Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic in the south of the GDR. Catalog. Part 2: District Cottbus (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Volume 19). German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1987.
  • Guide to the castles and fortified churches in the Erzgebirgskreis. State Office for Archeology, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-943770-08-7 .
  • with Yves Hoffmann: Archeology and building history of the former Benedictine monastery in Chemnitz: the excavations in the Schloßbergmuseum 1981–1993. State Office for Archeology Saxony, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-943770-35-3 .

literature

  • Thomas Gerlach : Volkmar Geupel on his 65th birthday. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51, 2005, issue 2, pp. 123-124, ISSN  0486-8234 .
  • Yves Hoffmann: On the 70th birthday of the castle researcher Volkmar Geupel. In: Castle Research from Saxony: Contributions to Castle Research in the Free State of Saxony and Adjacent Areas 23, 2010, pp. 146–151.
  • Ivonne Burghardt: Bibliography of the writings of Volkmar Geupel. In: A rarbeits- und Forschungsberichte zur Sächsische Bodendenkmalpflege 51/52 (2009/10), pp. 487–492 ISSN  0402-7817 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Yves Hoffmann: For the 70th birthday of the castle researcher Volkmar Geupel. In: Castle Research from Saxony: Contributions to Castle Research in the Free State of Saxony and Adjacent Areas 23, 2010, pp. 146–151.
  2. ↑ a b Dipl. Phil. Volkmar Geupel adopted , press release of the Saxon State Office for Archeology from March 1, 2005.
  3. ^ "Guide to the castles and fortified churches in the Erzgebirgskreis" , press release of the Saxon State Office for Archeology from September 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Geupel, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric and early historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden