Wilfried Menghin

Wilfried Menghin (born April 8, 1942 in Munich , † June 19, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German prehistorian and museum director .

Life

Wilfried Menghin was born in Munich in 1942 and grew up there. After his military service he studied from 1965 with Joachim Werner at the University of Munich , with Wilhelm Albert von Brunn at the University of Gießen and with Walter Torbrügge (1923–1994) at the University of Regensburg, Prehistory and Early History with Günter Ulbert, Provincial Roman Archeology , Ethnology and with Kurt Reindel Middle Story . In 1971 he received his doctorate in Munich and in 1986 he completed his habilitation in Regensburg for the subject of Prehistory and Early History . From 1972 to 1990 he was, most recently, chief conservator and director at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. From 1986 to 1990 he taught as a private lecturer and until 2001 as an adjunct professor at the University of Regensburg. From 1990 to April 2008 he was director and professor of the Museum for Prehistory and Protohistory of the State Museums in Berlin and State Archaeologist of Berlin. After the German reunification, the collections of the museums in East and West Berlin were brought together under his leadership and the presentation in the Neues Museum , which opened in 2009, was prepared. Beyond his retirement, he was the special representative of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, especially for the museum's holdings that had been lost as looted art since the end of the war , such as the Priam's treasure .

Since 1992 he has also been an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin . Menghin was chairman of the commission for research into collections of archaeological finds and documents from north-eastern Central Europe , member of the board of the Association of State Archaeologists and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . His main research areas were the archeology of the Bronze Age and the Merovingian Age .

Wilfried Menghin found his final resting place in the Evangelical Cemetery Paplitzer Strasse in Berlin-Lichtenrade .

Exhibitions

Magical gold. Cult device of the late Bronze Age (Nuremberg 1977)
Roman parade helmets (Nuremberg 1978)
Avars. An equestrian people from Asia (Nuremberg 1985)
Teutons, Huns and Avars. Treasures of the Migration Period (Nuremberg, Frankfurt a. Main 1986/1987)
Vikings, Varangians and Normans. The Scandinavians and Europe 800-1200 (Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen 1992/1993)
The Franks - Pioneers of Europe (Mannheim, Berlin, Paris 1996/1997)
People, times, spaces. Archeology in Germany (Berlin, Bonn 2002/2003)
Merovingian period - Europe without borders (Moscow, Saint Petersburg 2007)
Under the sign of the Golden Griffin. Royal Tombs of the Scythians (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg 2007/2008)

Editing until 2008:

Periodicals

Magical gold. Cult device of the late Bronze Age (Nuremberg 1977)
Avars in Europe. Treasures of an Asian equestrian people. 6th to 8th centuries (Nuremberg, Frankfurt a. Main 1985)
Teutons, Huns and Avars. Treasures of the Migration Period (Nuremberg, Frankfurt a. Main 1997)
Between Valhalla and Paradise (Berlin 1991)
Vikings, Varangians and Normans. The Scandinavians and Europe 800 to 1200 (Berlin 1992)
The Franks - Les Francs (Mannheim, Berlin 1997)
People, times, spaces. Archeology in Germany (Berlin, Bonn 2002/2003)
Merovingian period - Europe without borders (Epocha Merovingov - Evropa bez granic. Moscow, Saint Petersburg 2007)
Under the sign of the golden griffin. Royal Tombs of the Scythians (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg 2007/2008)

Hall guide

Monographs

Celts, Romans and Teutons. Archeology and history. Prestl, Munich 1980
Gothic and Lombard finds from Italy in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1983
The gold cone of Ezelsdorf. Theiss, Stuttgart 1983
The sword in the early Middle Ages. Theiss, Stuttgart 1983
The Lombards. History and archeology. Theiss, Stuttgart 1985
Early history of Bavaria. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990
The Berlin gold hat. Power, Magic and Math in the Bronze Age. The collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Vol. II. Schnell and Steiner 2010

List of publications until 2006

Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 39, 2007, Wilfried Menghin on his 65th birthday , pp. 11-18.

Wilfried Menghin (Ed.): The Berlin Museum for Pre- and Early History. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary. Acta praehistorica et archaeologica 36/37. Berlin State Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88609-907-X , pp. 525-526.
Tobias Springer: Wilfried Menghin in memory. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 2013 (2014), pp. 19–22.
Harald Koschik: Memories of Wilfried Menghin. In: Bavarian History Leaflets 79, 2014, pp. 255-257.

^ Obituary notice from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Tagesspiegel , June 30, 2013, p. 19
↑ Obituary notice of the family, Tagesspiegel , June 30, 2013, p. 19