Wolfgang Gaitzsch

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Wolfgang Gaitzsch (born July 9, 1949 ) is a German provincial Roman and classical archaeologist .

Live and act

Wolfgang Gaitzsch attended the Advanced Lessing High School in Döbeln and passed his Abitur in 1968 . He studied at the universities of Jena and Hamburg and graduated as a qualified archaeologist. He worked in the Thuringian State Museum Weimar and took part in excavations in Thuringia. Later he worked for the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn under director Christoph B. Rüger , where he took part in excavation campaigns in the Colonia Ulpia Traiana in Xanten . As a graduate student in the Department of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Marburg, he was in 1979 with the dissertation Typology iron Roman tools doctorate .

Wolfgang Gaitzsch was a scientific advisor at the Rhenish Office for Ground Monument Preservation and worked there, among other things, in the Titz- Höllen and Niederzier branches .

In the Hambach Forest from 1984 to 2012 he was the scientific director of the excavations at sites 303 (1984), 425 (1990–1991), 206 (1991–1992), 224 (1992–1993), 125 (1996), 111 (1999 ), 127 (2002), 130 (2003-2005), 488 (2005-2009), 133 (2007) and 87 (2012).

In 2011 he was a scientific excavation director during the excavation of the deepest well in Europe from the Stone Age in Morschenich in Düren .

Wolfgang Gaitzsch lives in Birgel .

Fonts

  • Roman tools. Society for Pre- and Protohistory. State Museum, Stuttgart 1978, DNB 790618575 .
  • On the typology of iron Roman tools. Dissertation. University of Marburg 1979.
    Published under the title Iron Roman Tools. Studies of Roman tool science in Italy and the northern provinces of the Imperium Romanum. 2 volumes. BAR, Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-86054-089-8 .
  • Antique wicker and cord ware. Society for Pre- and Protohistory. State Museum, Stuttgart 1986, DNB 880080272 .
  • Roman road and Prussian milestones in front of the Sophienhöhe near Jülich. Neusser Druck und Verlag, Neuss 1992, ISBN 978-3-88094-724-5 .
  • Iron finds from Pergamon. Devices, tools and weapons. With a contribution by Guntram Gassmann and Andreas Hauptmann. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-018240-8 .
  • Sideways glance. From almanac to onion fish. With calligraphy by Rolf Lock. Gaitzsch, Düren-Birgel 2014, DNB 1096254999 .

items

Wolfgang Gaitzsch published articles in archaeological journals such as Antike Welt , Archäologie im Rheinland , Istanbuler Mitteilungen and Bonn yearbooks and in series of local history research such as the yearbook of the Düren district .

  • The matron shrine of Eschweiler-Lohn, Aachen district. In: Series of publications by the Eschweiler history association. Volume 4, 1981, pp. 13-23.
  • The wax application of antique writing boards. In: Bonner Jahrbücher. 184, 1984, pp. 189-207, DNB 1066787867 .
  • Ergological remarks on the hoard found in the Königsforst and related Roman metal depots. In: Bonner Jahrbücher. 184, 1984, pp. 379-400.
  • Ancient rope mill. In: Ancient World. 16, 2, 1985, pp. 41-50, OCLC 777661373 .
  • A two-piece curb from the late Middle Ages from Königshoven. In: Archeology in the Rhineland. 1988, pp. 131-132, OCLC 1067533444
  • A Western European horse harness of the late 13th century from Pergamon. Mercenaries of the Catalan Company or Genoese on Castle Hill? With an appendix by Ulrich Zwicker, Karl Nigge, Erika Grembler: Metal analysis of fittings. In: Istanbul communications. 37, 1987, pp. 219-257.
  • Equipment and tools. In: Hans-Joachim Schalles , Charlotte Schreiter (Hrsg.): Story from the gravel. New finds from the Old Rhine near Xanten (= Xanten reports . Volume 3). Habelt, Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-7927-1378-5 , pp. 83-102 ( online ).
  • Roman iron finds from Jülich and the surrounding area. In: Jülich history sheets. 66, 1998, pp. 51-116.
  • Late Roman glassworks in the Hambach Forest - production site for the ECVA keg jugs. Archaeological and scientific research. In: Bonner Jahrbücher. 200, 2000, pp. 83-242.
  • Roman silver tableware made from patterns at Jülich. In: Guido von Büren, Erwin Fuchs (ed.): Jülich. City, territory, history. Boss-Dr.-und-Medien, Kleve 2000, ISBN 978-3-933969-10-1 , pp. 255-282.
  • The Via Belgica between Elsdorf and Jülich. Outcrops in the run-up to the Hambach lignite mine. In: "All roads lead to Rome ..." International Roman Road Colloquium Bonn. Rhein-Eifel-Mosel-Verlag, Pulheim 2004, ISBN 3-924182-63-9 , pp. 175-196.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our member information . Traditional and development association Lessing-Gymnasium Döbeln. No. 47 of December 15, 2014, p. 9 (65th birthday on July 9, 2014).
  2. ↑ A historical treasure trove on the website of the tradition and support association Lessing-Gymnasium Döbeln
  3. ↑ That's how it was on the Penne on the website of the Lessing-Gymnasium Döbeln
  4. ^ Philipp Filtzinger : Foreword. In: Wolfgang Gaitzsch: Roman tools. Society for Pre- and Protohistory. Landesmuseum Stuttgart 1978, DNB 790618575 , p. 3.
  5. ↑ Author entry. In: Iron finds from Pergamon. Devices, tools and weapons. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-018240-8 .
  6. ↑ Horst Pomsel: The luxury life in the country. Behind the Limes: Villae rusticae between the Rhine and Maas. In: Pro Lingua Latina. Issue 8, 2007, p. 86.
  7. ↑ Author entry. In: Heinz Heinz Günter Horn , Tilmann Bechert (Ed.): The Romans in North Rhine-Westphalia. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 978-3-8062-0312-7 , p. 7.
  8. ↑ Tobias Schubert: "Pars fructuaria". Study of outbuildings with storage functions on Roman villas in the Hambach Forest. With comparisons from the Germanic and British provinces. Dissertation. University of Cologne, Cologne 2014. Tredition, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7345-6989-0 ( online , PDF; 283 MB, excerpt ).
  9. ↑ Europe's deepest stone age well discovered - and recovered in a block at archaeologie-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Gaitzsch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German provincial Roman and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1949