Walter Hahland

Walter Hahland (born August 10, 1901 in Vichtenstein ( Upper Austria ), † April 22, 1966 in Mainz ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Walter Hahland attended the elementary school in Viechtenstein and the grammar schools in Ried im Innkreis and Linz . From 1915 to 1922 he studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Universities of Heidelberg , Kiel and Marburg . In 1928 he was employed by Paul Jacobsthal in Marburg with the work Studies on Attic vase painting around 400 BC. Chr. Ph.D., the book from the later vases to Meidias in the series images of Greek vases emerged. In 1928/29 he was the holder of a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and was able to travel to the Mediterranean with it . From 1929 to 1931 he took part in excavations in Athens and Pergamon and started a catalog of the ancient sculptures in the museum in Izmir . From 1931 to 1936 he was curator of the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum and assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Würzburg , where he also received his habilitation in 1933. On December 1, 1936, he was appointed Associate Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Jena , and on October 1, 1941, he was appointed Full Professor. He remained in that position until the end of World War II , but had been drafted into the Wehrmacht since autumn 1941 . He was represented by the classical philologist Friedrich Zucker . By the time he was called up, he had prepared the vases from the university collection for publication in the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany . Zucker kept the manuscript and the vases in separate places so that if the vases were destroyed, the manuscript would remain. It is lost today.

After his release from captivity, Hahland, who was burdened because of his work in the Nazi lecturers' association , did not return to Jena (released on March 15, 1946), but initially in 1945 to his Upper Austrian homeland. Here he worked as a gardener from 1945 to 1949. From 1948 to 1952 he was an employee of the Volkshochschule Linz, from 1950 to 1952 press officer of the Chamber of Labor in Linz. From 1953 to 1960 he was head of the press department at Jenaer Glaswerke Schott & Gen. active in Mainz. In 1953 he also became professor for re-use at the University of Mainz , and in 1959 he was retired as a full professor at the University of Mainz in terms of salary law.

From his dissertation, Hahland was considered a specialist in late classical vase painting , but later published more on ancient sculpture and architecture.

Fonts

• Vases around Meidias (= research on ancient ceramics . Row 1: Pictures of Greek vases. H. 1). Keller, Berlin 1930 (Reprint: Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1976).
• Studies of Attic vase painting around 400 BC Chr. Hestia, Athens et al. 1931 (Marburg, University, dissertation of January 24, 1928).
• Otto Schott's research and his collaboration with Ernst Abbe up to the establishment of the Jena glassworks Schott und Gen. in Jena (= Schott-Schriften. Vol. 1, ISSN  0582-0111 ). Jenaer Glaswerk Schott u. Gen., Mainz 1965.

literature

• Biographical lexicon of Upper Austria. 4. Delivery. 1958, 11-14 Delivery 1968.
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 334.
• Hadwiga Schörner: The history of the subject Classical Archeology at the University of Jena 1945 to 1990. In: Uwe Hoßfeld , Tobias Kaiser, Heinz Mestrup (eds.): University in Socialism. Studies on the history of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990). Volume 2. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 , pp. 1816–1847, here pp. 1825–1826.
• Willy Schilling: National Socialist Lecturer and National Socialist German Lecturer Association at the University of Jena. In: Uwe Hoßfeld, Jürgen John , Oliver Lemuth, Rüdiger Stutz (eds.): "Combative Science". Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 , pp. 180–201, here pp. 189, 192, 196–198.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Hahland in the catalog of the German National Library