Lubor Niederle

Lubor Niederle ( born September 20, 1865 in Klatovy, † June 14, 1944 in Prague) was a Czech archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnographer and historian.

Life

Niederle studied anthropology in Prague, Germany and France. In his early years he toured large parts of southern and eastern Europe. He was stopped for the study of archeology and ethnography by Miroslav Tyrš, later he devoted himself exclusively to the primeval history of Europe. His main interest was the Slavic tribes, of which he published in 1893 his first work. Two years later he participated in the construction of the Ethnographic Museum.

In 1891 he founded and edited the magazine Czech people and worked for several professional journals. Niederle lived since 1896 during the summer months in Veletiny. Since 1898 he has been a professor at Charles University in Prague prehistoric archeology. From 1927 to 1929 he was rector of the university.

Niederle one of the protagonists of the archaeological investigation methods under critical- analytical use of historical sources. With his longtime friend, the archaeologist Karel Buchtela, he wrote in 1910 a compendium of the Czech archeology. In 1919 he participated materially in the establishment of the State Archaeological Institute (now the Archaeological Institute of the AV CR ), which he directed until 1924.

His most important archaeological and ethnological work is the collection elfbändige Slavic Antiquities ( 1902-1927 ) and his study of Slavs in Hungary from 1903 ( Národopisná mapa uherských Slováků ). In 1928 he participated in the foundation of the Slavonic Institute (now an institute of the AV ČR ). With the problem of Slavism and the history of the Slavs he worked in his 1931 erschienenem Compendium of Slavic archeology.

1938 appointed him an honorary citizen of the town Veletiny.

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