Walther Bremer

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Walther Bremer (born June 8, 1887 in Wismar , † November 9, 1926 in Dublin ( Ireland )) was a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

After attending grammar schools in Wismar, Waren and Rostock in 1905, the Wismar merchant's son passed his matriculation examination in Rostock and studied ancient languages, history and geography in Marburg, Munich, Rostock and Gießen. At the age of 18 he joined the Marburg fraternity of Germania , in which he remained active until his death. On December 18, 1910, he received his doctorate from the classical archaeologist Carl Watzinger in Giessen . After an internship at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz , Bremer received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which took him to Crete in 1913 .

Bremer spent the First World War as a war volunteer until he was captured as a highly decorated officer on November 20, 1917 in the tank battle of Cambrai . There he was able to resume his pre-war connections from the Cretan period. Arthur Evans and Duncan Mackenzie (1861–1934) gave him the necessary support for his habilitation thesis in the subject “Prehistoric Archeology including the Early Classical and Roman-Germanic”.

The excavations in the Neolithic settlement Eberstadt in the Wetterau and the work published about it made him famous . In 1920 he became a private lecturer and in 1922 a non-official associate professor at the Philipps University of Marburg ; here u heard a. Gotthard Neumann his lectures. During this time in Marburg, Bremer also worked as a monument conservationist for the Kassel administrative district. In 1925/26 he received the position of keeper, i.e. curator , of the Irish Antiquities in Dublin (Ireland) after an international tender . He died there of Malta fever , a late consequence of his stay in Crete. Bremer's share in science is part of the emancipation of prehistory into an independent subject. On Walther Bremer u. a. the name Münchshöfener Gruppe back.

Fonts

  • The hairstyle of men in archaic Greek times. Dissertation. Giessen 1911.
  • Eberstadt, a Stone Age village in the Wetterau. In: Prehistoric Journal . 5, 1913, pp. 366-435.
  • The Mediterranean culture of the younger Stone Age and older Bronze Age. Habilitation thesis. Marburg 1920.

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 476
  • Gustav Behrens : Walther Bremer † . In: Gnomon . Volume 3 (1927), pp. 502-504.
  • Carl Schuchhardt , Paul Jacobsthal , RA Stewart Macalister , in: Prehistoric Journal. 17, 1926, pp. 281ff. (with picture)
  • H. Knöll, in: Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck. Volume 6. Marburg 1958, pp. 26-34.
  • Niklot Klüßendorf , in: Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 2. Rostock 1999, pp. 59-63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 193.
  2. ^ Archives of the Marburg fraternity Germania
personal data
SURNAME Bremer, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bremer, Walther Erich Emanuel Friedrich (full name); Bremer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1926
Place of death Dublin , Ireland