Rolf Hachmann
Rolf Hachmannplatz ( born June 19, 1917 in Blankenese ) is a German prehistorians.
Life
He attended secondary school reform in Blankenese, where he was taught by Peter Zylmann, a connoisseur of Frisian history, and in 1937 passed his Abitur. After work, military and war service and the flight from English captivity he began in 1945 at the University of Hamburg to study with a major in Pre-and Early History at Hans Jürgen Eggers and a minor in Ancient History, Altgermanistik, folklore, ethnology and geography. Mid-1949 he received his doctorate after seven semesters, " Studies on the Iron Age in Central Germany ". In 1952-53 he had a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute.
After his habilitation in 1955, he was Associate Professor of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Hamburg. In 1959 he took over as the successor of Vladimir Milojčić Professor of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken. Hachmannplatz headed the Institute from 1959 to 1985 on his initiative, it was renamed the Institute. (Later: field of study) for Pre-and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology. In 1986 he became Professor Emeritus. He is still scientifically active.
Work
He participated in several excavations in Turkey ( Boğazkale ) and in Syria ( Tell Chuera ). In 1963 he started together with Arnulf Kuschke, Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Mainz, excavations on the settlement mound (tell) Kamid el- Loz in Lebanon. This excavation he headed from 1966 until 1981. In 1982 he initiated together with Jan Lichardus and Alexandar folic excavations in the area of the South East Bulgarian village of Drama, which he headed until his retirement.
His research encompasses a wide range of temporal and spatial spectrum. He wrote important works, among others, the Central European Bronze Age and the archeology and history of the Germans. So he published, for example, in 1962, together with Georg Kossack and Hans Kuhn a study on the so-called north-western block ( " peoples between Germans and Celts " ) and dealt in 1970 with the origin of the Goths and their alleged homeland in Scandinavia. Even after his retirement, he continued his studies. In 1991 he published his research on the origin and history of the boiler from Gundestrup. The excavation results of Kamid el- Loz are under his leadership in more than 20 volumes in the series Saarbrücken Contributions to Archaeology published. His former doctoral students include, for example, the former state conservator of Saarland Alfons Kolling, Montan archaeologist Gerd Weisgerber and François Bertemes, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, Halle ( Saale).
Hachmannplatz is a regular member of the German Archaeological Institute and since 1993 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy. The Saarland University held on 30 June 2007, a colloquium on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Writings (selection )
- The Goths and Scandinavia ( = sources and research on language and cultural history of the Germanic peoples. Vol. 158 = New Series Vol 34, ISSN 0481-3596 ). de Gruyter, Berlin, 1970.
- The Germanic tribes. Nagel, Munich et al 1971.
- As editors: Selected Bibliography of history of Central Europe. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-04088-9.
- As editor: Early Phoenicians in Lebanon. 20 years of German excavations at el- Loz Kamid. of Saverne, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0771-3.
- As editor: the concept of culture in the pre-and early history research (. = Saarbrücken Contributions to Archaeology Vol 48). Habelt, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7749-2263-2.
- Gundestrup studies. Studies of the late Celtic foundations of early Germanic art. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Vol 71, 1991, ISSN 0341-9312, pp. 568-903.