Werner Krämer (archaeologist)

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Werner Krämer (born March 8, 1917 in Wiesbaden ; † January 25, 2007 ibid) was a German archaeologist for prehistory and early history .

Live and act

The son of the school councilor Max Krämer and his wife Martha Reichwein studied in Munich , Marburg and Kiel the subjects of Middle History, Folklore and Prehistory and Early History. He obtained his doctorate in Munich with the work Die Grabfunde der Laten stages B and C from southern Bavaria . Krämer became an active member of the Catholic student union Saxonia in the KV in Munich , to which he remained loyal until his death.

In the years from 1947 to 1956 he performed duties as a department director ( conservator ) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . A highlight for him during this time was the excavation work at the Manching oppidum near Ingolstadt , where he began researching the culture of the Celts in Central Europe, which occupied him throughout his life.

In 1956 he became the first director of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Frankfurt am Main . He held this position until 1972. From 1972 to 1980 he was Kurt Bittel's successor as President of the DAI.

During his time at the DAI, contacts began with focal points of non-European archeology. So he was able to participate in the start of the work of the Commission for General and Comparative Archeology (KAVA) in Bonn , whereby a branch of the DAI was set up in Sanaa . As part of the Roman-Germanic Commission, he set priorities with Celtic research and the associated excavations on the Limes , which received international recognition.

Awards

Memberships

  • Royal Irish Academy
  • Society of Antiquaries of London
  • Swiss Society for Prehistory
  • Institut Italiano di Preistoria e Prostoria
  • Yugoslav Archaeological Society
  • British Academy London
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member)
  • Austrian Anthropological Society
  • Prehistoric Society of Great Britain
  • Scientific society of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
  • Austrian Archaeological Institute
  • Royal Acad. v. Belgie
  • Scientific Society Berlin

Fonts

  • Cambodunumforschungen 1953 - I. The excavation of wooden houses between the 1st and 2nd cross street. In: Materialhefte zur Bavarian Prehistory, Issue 9, 1957
  • Manching - A Vindelic Oppidum on the Danube , special print from: New excavations in Germany, Berlin 1958
  • New excavations in Germany. 44 excavation reports. as publisher, Berlin 1958
  • The Celtic burial ground of Nebringen ( Böblingen district ) , with a contribution by Holger Preuschoft. Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation Stuttgart. Series A Pre- and Early History Booklet 8, Stuttgart 1964
  • together with F. Schubert: The excavations in Manching in 4 volumes. Published by the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Wiesbaden, 1969, 1970, 1971
  • 150 years of the German Archaeological Institute - Address at the public ceremony of the Central Management and the members of the German Archaeological Institute on April 21, 1979 in the Congress Hall in Berlin , Berlin 1979
  • The German Archaeological Institute. History and Documents , 1979.
  • The grave finds from Manching and the flat graves from the Latène period in southern Bavaria , 1985

literature

  • Walter Habel: Who is who? , Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-7950-2013-1
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007, bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . 21st edition, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, Volume II: I - Sche, ISBN 978-3-598-23616-7 , p. 1923.
  • Hermann Ament in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 83 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2007
Place of death Wiesbaden