Udelgard Körber-Grohne

Udelgard Körber-Grohne (born July 11, 1923 in Hamburg, died November 6, 2014 in Wiesensteig) was a German archaeobotanist.

Prof

Udelgard Körber-Grohne
Academic background
Academic work
Sub-disciplineArchaeobotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Hohenheim

Early life and education

Körber-Grohne was born in Hamburg. Her father Ernst Grohne was an archaeologist and museum curator in Bremen. She studied biology at university, graduating from Braunschweig Technical University in 1948.[1]

Career

In 1949 she began work at the Lower Saxony State Institute for Marsh and Wound Research in Wilhelmshaven, where she studied archaeology and geology of the Lower Saxony coastal area.[1] Her early work utilised pollen analysis to study vegetation history.[2] Methodological advances included the identification of cereal pollen.[3] She took over the archeobotanical analysis in the archaeological excavation project of the settlement Feddersen Wierde where studied a large assemblage of waterlogged plant remains.[4] This study was pioneering in the development of identification methods and the identification of past plant communities on the basis of archaeobotanical remains, the publication of which "set new standards for archaeobotany".[1]

After a family break and the death of her husband Körber-Grohne moved in 1970 to the University of Hohenheim and worked at the local Botanical Institute under Burkhard Frenzel. In the following years she was involved in the field of archaeobotany in southern Germany. She habilitated with her research work on Feddersen Wierde and was appointed as a professor in 1970.[1][5] During this period she worked on a range of archaeological projects in south-west Germany, including archaeobotanical remains from the Roman castellum of Welzheim,[6] and the from the grave of a Halstatt chief at Hochdorf.[7] She developed methodologies for the identification of ancient textile fragments, including a study of Viking finds from Haithabu.[8]

Körber-Grohne retired in 1988, after which she continued to produce academic research. A key study was on the history of cherries, damsons, plums and sloes.[9]

Körber-Grohne was a member of the German Archaeological Institute.[1]

Honours

A festschrift was published in 1988 entitled Der prähistorische Mensch und seine Umwelt.[10]

Selected publications
  • 1979. Nutzpflanzen und Umwelt im römischen Germanien. (Kleine Schriften zur Kenntnis der römischen Besetzungsgeschichte Südwestdeutschlands, Bd. 21) Stuttgart.
  • 1987. Nutzpflanzen in Deutschland. Kulturgeschichte und Biologie. Theiss, Stuttgart.
  • 1996. Pflaumen, Kirschpflaumen, Schlehen. Heutige Pflanzen und ihre Geschichte seit der Frühzeit. Theiss, Stuttgart.
  • 1998. Geobotanische Untersuchungen auf der Feddersen Wierde. (Feddersen Wierde, Bd. 1), Steiner Franz Verlag.

References
  1. Behre, Karl-Ernst (2015-01-01). "In memoriam Udelgard Körber-Grohne". Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 24 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1007/s00334-014-0509-4. ISSN 1617-6278.
  2. Grohne, U (1957). "Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des ostfriesischen Küstengebietes auf Grund botanischer Untersuchungen". Probl Küstenforsch Südl Nordseegebiet. 6: 1–46.
  3. Grohne, U (1957). "Die Bedeutung des Phasenkontrastverfahrens für die Pollenanalyse am Beispiel der Gramineenpollen vom Getreidetyp". Photograph Forsch. 7: 237–248.
  4. Körber-Grohne, Udelgard (1967). Geobotanische Untersuchungen auf der Feddersen Wierde. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner.
  5. "Nachruf Prof. Dr. Udelgard Körber-Grohne". Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg: 71–72.
  6. Flora und Fauna im Ostkastell von Welzheim. Körber-Grohne, Udelgard. Stuttgart: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg. 1983. ISBN 3806207666. OCLC 22593644.CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Körber-Grohne, U (1985). "Die biologischen Reste aus dem hallstattzeitlichen Fürstengrab von Hochdorf, Gemeinde Eberdingen (Kreis Ludwigsburg)". Forsch Ber Vor- Frühgesch Bad-Württ. 19: 85–265.
  8. Körber-Grohne, U (1977). "Botanische Untersuchungen des Tauwerkes der frühmittelalterlichen Siedlung Haithabu und Hinweise zur Unterscheidung einheimischer Gehölzbaste". Ber Ausgrab Haithabu. 11: 64–110.
  9. Udelgard., Körber-Grohne (1996). Pflaumen, Kirschpflaumen, Schlehen : heutige Pflanzen und ihre Geschichte seit der Frühzeit. Stuttgart: K. Theiss. ISBN 3806212120. OCLC 36074617.
  10. Der Prähistorische Mensch und seine Umwelt : Festschrift für Udelgard Körber-Grohne zum 65. Geburtstag. Küster, Hansjörg, 1956-, Körber-Gröhne, Udelgard., Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag K. Theiss. 1988. ISBN 3806207992. OCLC 18984473.CS1 maint: others (link)
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