Joachim Werner (archaeologist)

Joachim Werner ( born December 23, 1909 in Berlin, † January 9, 1994 in Munich) was an archaeologist in particular shaped the German Early Medieval Archaeology. Most professors with a focus on the early Middle Ages were (partly also in the generation of grandchildren ) occupied in the second half of the 20th century with its academic students.

Life

Werner made ​​at the French Gymnasium in Berlin High School began in 1928 and the course of study of the prehistory and early history, classical archeology and ancient history as well as the middle. His teachers have included, among others Max Ebert and Wilhelm Unverzagt in Berlin, Oswald Menghin in Vienna and Gero von Merhart in Marburg. In Marburg he earned his doctorate at December 7, 1932 with a thesis on " Münzdatierte Austrasian grave finds " that stimulated by Hans Zeiss was attempting, based münzführender graves to develop an absolute chronology of the Merovingian period. Although many had to be revised in the meantime, so is the work but a milestone in the knowledge of the early Middle Ages dar.

After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis, he joined the SA in 1933, after the completion of the recording stops 1937 the NSDAP. In 1936 he became a corresponding, in 1943 a full member of the German Archaeological Institute, 1953, the Roman-Germanic Commission.

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The scientific interest was the pre-Roman Iron Age and the Germanic ethnogenesis, late ancient castles, Merovingian cemeteries and ceremonial tombs, the nomadic horsemen of the early Middle Ages, the art of the Carolingian period. In addition, further comparative research on ceremonial graves in South Korea.

From Munich he could perform numerous excavation projects, mainly in late Roman forts: Epfach (1953-1957), Gold Mountain in Turkic Home (1958-1961), Castle Isny (1966-1970), Münsterberg Breisach, castle Sponek at Jechtingen, Kellmünz (1986 -1993 ).

Further excavation projects have taken place in Austria, Italy and Slovenia: Kuchl, Invillino in Friuli, Hrušica and Vranje.

Organisational framework for this was mostly initiated by Werner " Commission for archaeological exploration of the late Roman Raetia " at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

With the publication of the cemetery Mindelheim Werner prepared a chronology of the system based on belt buckles, which was later modified by Rainer Christlein basis of the cemetery market Oberndorf. It is still important basis of the relative chronology of the Merovingian period.

Werner received his PhD 33 students ( including Bernhard Overbeck, Hans -Jörg waiter ) and his habilitation 7 colleagues (Vladimir Milojčić, Georg Kossack, Hermann Müller- Karpe, Günter Ulbert, Walter Torbrügge, Hermanfrid Schubart and Volker brewers ).

Writings (selection )

  • Münzdatierte Austrasian grave finds. Germanic monuments of the Migration Period 3 (Berlin, Leipzig 1935)
  • The Alemanni chieftain's grave from Wittislingen. Munich contributions to the Pre-and Early History 2 (Munich 1940)
  • The discovery of Ittenheim. A alamannisches princely grave of the 7th century in Alsace ( Strasbourg 1943)
  • Siegfried Fuchs: Longobard fibulae from Italy ( Berlin 1950)
  • The Alemanni cemetery of Bülach. Mon Ur -u Prehistor. Switzerland (Basel 1953)
  • Scale and money in the Merovingian period. Sitzungsber. Bay. Acad. (Munich 1954)
  • The Alemanni cemetery of Mindelheim. Materialh. Bayer. Vorgesch. 6 ( Kallmunz / opf. 1955)
  • Contributions to the Archaeology of Attila Empire. Abh Bayer. Acad. , Phil - Hist. Kl 38A (Munich 1956)
  • The excavations in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg 1961-1968. Munich Beitr previous and Prehistor. 28 (Munich 1977)
  • Late Celtism between Rome and Germania (Munich 1979)
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