Walter Ulrich Guyan

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Walter Ulrich Guyan (born January 8, 1911 in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ; † January 18, 1999 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss prehistorian and director of the All Saints Museum in Schaffhausen.

Life

After graduating from high school in Schaffhausen, Guyan studied geography at the University of Zurich from 1929 to 1934 . From 1934 he was a curator at the Natural History Museum in Schaffhausen. After receiving his doctorate in 1935, he studied cultural and prehistory in Zurich. From 1942 to 1973 he was director of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and part-time Schaffhausen canton archaeologist. In 1944 he was in the cultural landscape history at the University of Zurich habilitation and was from 1953 to 1980 Associate Professor of Cultural Landscape History. From 1949 to 1952 he was President of the Swiss Society for Prehistory and Protohistory , of which he became an honorary member in 1987, and from 1950 to 1958 General Secretary of the International Prehistoric Congress and from 1964 a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

He wrote numerous books, writings and essays, for example in 1966 when he was excavating an Alemannic grave that was discovered by chance in the desert of Alenfingen near Barzheim . His topics were also primarily the prehistory and early history of the city and the cantons of Schaffhausen and Klettgau , excavations and research results on the sites of the pile dwelling settlement Weier near Thayngen in the Reiat and the Museum zu Allerheiligen . In addition, as museum director, he organized internationally acclaimed art exhibitions.

Fonts (selection)

  • The northern Norwegian beach plate. Kühn, Schaffhausen 1935.
  • The burial mound field in Sankert near Hemishofen (= writings of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History in Switzerland. Vol. 8). succumbed to the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of Switzerland, Basel in 1951.
  • Between the North Sea and the Arctic Ocean: Ten millennia of Scandinavian landscape. Kümmerly & Frey, Bern 1954.
  • People and the primeval landscape of Switzerland. Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1954.
  • The pile construction problem (= monographs on the prehistory and early history of Switzerland. Vol. 11). Birkhäuser, Basel 1955.
  • Schaffhausen art and culture in the Museum zu Allerheiligen (= Swiss homeland books. Vol. 59). P. Haupt, Bern 1954.
  • The Alemannic burial ground of Beggingen-Löbern. Publishing house of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory in Switzerland, Basel 1958.
  • The Alemannic burial ground of Schleitheim-Hebsack. (= Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Switzerland. Book 5). Birkhäuser, Basel 1965.
  • Explored the past. Two volumes. Peter Meili, Schaffhausen 1971.
  • Neunkirch: Country town in Klettgau. P. Meili, Schaffhausen 1985.
  • Thayngen: People and Landscape through the Ages. K. Augustin, Thayngen 1986.

literature

  • Early iron in Europe. Acta of the 3rd symposium of the "Comité pour la sidérurgie ancienne de l'UISP", Schaffhausen and Zurich 24.-26. October 1979. Commemorative publication of WU Guyan on his 70th birthday . Schaffhausen 1981 (therein pp. 129–139: Walter Ulrich Guyan, List of Publications ).
  • Markus Höneisen: On the death of Prof. Dr. Walter Ulrich Guyan . In: Yearbook of the Swiss Society for Prehistory and Early History 82, 1999, p. 332.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Ulrich Guyan: An elegant grave from Barzheim-Alenfingen (Kt. Schaffhausen). In: Ur-Schweiz. Volume 30, 1966, pp. 36-51.
personal data
SURNAME Guyan, Walter Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prehistorian and director of the All Saints Museum in Schaffhausen
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen am Rheinfall
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1999
Place of death Schaffhausen