Wilhelm Albert von Brunn
Wilhelm Albert von Brunn (born September 17, 1911 in Koethen , † May 8, 1988 in Wiesbaden ) was a German prehistoric and archaeologist .
Life
Von Brunn studied in Marburg, Vienna, Berlin and Halle and received his doctorate in 1937 with a dissertation on the house burial ground in Central Germany with Walther Schulz at the University of Halle .
From 1938 to 1947 von Brunn worked at the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle and from 1951 to 1961 at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (East). With a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG), he was able to complete his habilitation at the University of Kiel on the Central German hoard finds of the younger Bronze Age . Afterwards he was a lecturer at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Kiel until 1964 . In 1965 he was appointed to the newly established Chair for Prehistory and Early History at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 1979 he retired.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Albert von Brunn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gisela Schumacher-Matthäus, Otto Mathias Wilbertz: Wilhelm Albert von Brunn 1911–1988. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Volume 64, Issue 1-2, 1989, doi: 10.1515 / prhz.1989.64.1-2.1 , pp. 1-4.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brunn, Wilhelm Albert von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brunn, WA v. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prehistorian and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koethen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1988 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |