Hayo Vierck
Hayo Vierck (* August 5, 1939 in Bentheim, † March 16, 1989 at Reichenau ) was a German archaeologist who coined the German Early Medieval archeology by exploring the craft.
Life
Hayo Vierck was a son of the pastor Theodor Vierck. He was interested in as a young high school student of the history and archeology of Schleswig -Holstein and had early contact with Hedeby. After the matriculation examination in 1962 at the boarding school Schloss Plön Vierck studied Prehistory and Early History, with minors in Classical Archaeology and Ethnology at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.
In 1969 he received his doctorate with Joachim Werner with the work of North English westskandinavische costume relations in the 5th and 6th centuries. He then completed a second study at Oxford University, he specialized in European Archaeology with the B. Litt. Oxon completed.
From 1969 to 1985 he was a member of the Collaborative Research 7 Medieval Studies of the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster and lecturer in arts and crafts in the early Middle Ages at the Department of Prehistory and Early History. Research priorities were the work of Eligius and the imitatio imperii. He had special interest in the British royal grave Sutton Hoo.
He was married to the classical archaeologist Sigrid Vierck. Its reclaimed by her estate is located since 2005 in the Roman- Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. He is buried in the cemetery in Flintbek.