Walter Nowothnig

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Walter Nowothnig (* 1903 in Nowawes ; † August 7, 1971 in Hanover ) was a German prehistorian , curator and author .

Life

Walther Nowothnig attended the University of Halle , where he wrote his first dissertation in 1932 and then worked there as a research assistant at the State Institute for Prehistory . He then worked in 1936 in Breslau as a research assistant for the State Office for Prehistory, then in 1937 as a research assistant, while in the same year he did his dissertation The Schönfeld Group . Its essence as a separation of the Saxon-Thuringian corded ceramics and their distribution published and the title Dr. phil. got awarded. In 1938 Nowothnig worked as a curator at the Wroclaw State Office.

After the Second World War , Walter Nowothnig carried out several archaeological excavations on and on the Wurmberg from Braunlage in the Upper Harz between 1949 and 1956 , during which, among other things, the Steinerne Weg was rediscovered. In the meantime, he had been employed as an employee of the Lower Saxony State Museum from 1953 . In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Schönfeld Group. Its essence as a separation of the Saxon-Thuringian corded ceramics and its distribution (= annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries , vol. 25: On the Neolithic of Central Germany ), Halle: [Landesanstalt für Volksheitskunde], 1937
  • The green leader. The Hanoverian hiking book. Deister, Osterwald, Süntel, Bückeberge, Weser- u. Wiehengebirge with Porta, Hildesheimer Bergland with Heinberg, Harz u. Harz foreland, Sieben Berge, Ith, Hils, Vogler, Solling, Lippisches Bergland, Teutoburger Wald, Lüneburg Heath , 23rd edition with extended text and improved maps edited by Heinric Wilhelm Ottens. Prehistoric explanations with castle sketches [by] W. Nowothnig, Hanover: Verlagsgesellschaft Land und Garten, [1955]
    • similar: The green guide through mountains, forests and heather. With over 400 excursions [on foot, by bike, motorcycle or car for Deister, Osterwald, Süntel ...] , 25th, revised edition ... [1959]
  • The “New Castle” on the Königskrug in the Upper Harz in: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch Volume 40, on behalf of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein edited by Hans Goetting, Braunschweig: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei, 1959, pp. 5-16; Digitization of the University of Braunschweig via the DFG Viewer
  • Cremation graves during the migration period in southern Lower Saxony (= Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history , vol. 4), Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1964
  • WR Lange, Walter Nowothnig: Prehistoric and early historical finds in the central Weser region , in: Friedrich Carl Barth u. a .: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments , vol. 4: Hameln - Deister - Rinteln - Minden , ed. from the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, in connection with the Northwest German and the West and South German Association for Antiquity Research, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag P. von Zabern, 1966, pp. 6-40
  • The Giebichenstein near Stöckse, Nienburg / W district. and the prehistoric monuments (= guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony , volume 6), Hildesheim: Lax, 1973
    • Revised by Erhard Cosack under the title: The archaeological hiking trail on Giebichenstein near Stöckse, Kr. Nienburg, Weser. From reindeer hunter to farmer , Hildesheim: Lax, 1979, ISBN 3-7848-1906-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Compare the information for Walter Nowothnig in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ NN : Walter Nowothig † , in: Erzmetall. Raw material extraction, processing, recycling, environmental technology , Ed .: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, Raw Material and Environmental Technology, Vol. 24, Clausthal-Zellerfeld: Society of German Metalworking and Miners (GDMB), 1971, p. 468; partly online via Google books
  3. ↑ Compare the information and cross-references from the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b Roland Roth: Der Wurmberg , in ders .: Departure to unknown worlds. Prehistoric Riddles and Mysteries of Modern Times (Electronic Resource), 110th, Chichili Agency, 2014; mostly online via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Nowothnig, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowawes
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1971
Place of death Hanover