Wolfgang Selzer
Wolfgang Selzer (* 1926 in Lorsch ; † 2003 ) was a German archaeologist .
Life
Wolfgang Selzer studied prehistory and early history and received his doctorate in 1957 at the University of Mainz . Between 1953 and 1955, while still a student, he stole numerous objects from what was then the Mainz antiquity museum in order to exhibit them in the local history museum of his place of birth and residence, Lorsch, which was only discovered in 1970. He became a research assistant at the Mainz Museum of Antiquities and its successor, the Landesmuseum Mainz , and retired in 1991.
Publications (selection)
- Franconian ceramics in Rheinhessen and Starkenburg . Dissertation Mainz 1957.
- with Karl Viktor Decker : Mainz from the time of Augustus to the end of Roman rule. In: Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase (Hrsg.): Rise and decline of the Roman world : History and culture of Rome in the mirror of recent research . Volume II 5, 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-11006-690-4 , pp. 457-559.
- Roman stone monuments. Mainz in Roman times. Catalog for the collection in the Steinhalle . Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0993-7 .
literature
- Susanne Armbruster: Digging, Finding, Organizing. Dr. Wolfgang Selzer said goodbye to the Landesmuseum Mainz . In: Mainz. Quarterly books for culture, politics, economy, history 11, 1991, 2, pp. 62–64.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Affair: Hat's pure dig , Der Spiegel , July 10, 1972.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selzer, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lorsch |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2003 |