Rolf Hachmann
Rolf Hachmann (19 June 1917 – 5 June 2014) was a German archaeologist who specialized in pre- and protohistory.
Life
Hachmann was born in
After
Work
He took part in various excavations in Turkey (
His research covers a broad spectrum in both periods and geography. He authored important works on topics which included the Bronze Age in central Europe and the archaeology and history of Germanic peoples. In 1962 together with Georg Kossack and philologist Hans Kuhn he published a study on the Nordwestblock ("Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten").
In 1970, Hachmann published his study Die Goten und Skandinavien, which investigated the origins of the Goths and their presumed original homeland in Scandinavia. In this study Hachmann concluded that it could neither be proven nor disproven that the Goths originated in Scandinavia.[3] He nevertheless noted that the trail of human migration will not always be reflected in the archaeological record.[4] Hachmann proposed that the Goths originated in the Przeworsk culture, but a later study by Herwig Wolfram has found this assumption to be incorrect.[5]
Hachmann continued his work after becoming an
Hachmann was a regular member of the German Archaeological Institute and was also an honorary member of the Romanian Academy from 1993. On June 30, 2007, the University of the Saarland held a colloquium on the occasion of his 90th birthday.[6]
Publications (selected)
- Die Goten und Skandinavien (= Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte der germanischen Völker. Vol. 158 = New Series Vol. 34, ISSN 0481-3596). de Gruyter, Berlin 1970.
- Die Germanen. Nagel, Munich 1971.
- as publisher: Ausgewählte Bibliographie zur Vorgeschichte von Mitteleuropa. Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-515-04088-9.
- as publisher: Frühe Phöniker im Libanon. 20 Jahre deutsche Ausgrabungen in Kāmid el-Lōz. von Zabern, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-8053-0771-3.
- as publisher: Studien zum Kulturbegriff in der Vor- und Frühgeschichtsforschung (= Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Vol. 48). Habelt, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7749-2263-2.
- Gundestrup-Studien. Untersuchungen zu den spätkeltischen Grundlagen der frühgermanischen Kunst. In: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission. Vol. 71, 1991, ISSN 0341-9312, pp. 568–903.
Footnotes
- ^ "The Plytenberg at Leer". Ewetel.net. Archived from the original on 2003-06-15. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ^ "Rolf Hachmann". Saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
- ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, p. 108.
- ^ Hachmann 1970, p. 465. "Eine Wanderung muß sich ja nicht unbedingt im archäologischen Fundgut abzeichnen, und selbst das historisch ganz Unwahrscheinliche bleibt immerhin noch möglich."
- ^ Wolfram 1990, pp. 394–395.
- ^ Celebratory colloquium on Prof. Hachmann's 90th birthday
Bibliography
- Jan Filip: Enzyklopädisches Handbuch der Ur- und Frühgeschichte Europas. Volume 1: A – K. Academia - Verlag der Tschechoslowakischen Akademie, Prague 1966, p. 448.
- Hachmann, Rolf (1970). Die Goten und Skandinavien [The Goths and Scandinavia]. ISBN 3110842882.
- Georg Kossack: Rolf Hachmann zum 80. Geburtstag (19.6.1997). Prähistorische Zeitschrift 72, 1, 1997, p. 1–5. [1]
- ISBN 9789004289529.
- London, Jack (1917). The Human Drift. Macmillan Company.
- ISBN 0520069838.
External links
- Literature by and about Rolf Hachmann in the German National Library catalogue
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