Gerd Weisgerber (January 24, 1938 in

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– June 22, 2010 in

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) was an eminent

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of mining archaeology. He was one of the first mining archaeologists of the world, who set standards in this scientific discipline. As a scientist from the

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, he focused his research mainly on Western Asia, especially on

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, and

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Education and career

From 1957 to 1959, Gerd Weisgerber studied at the teacher training college of

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and began his career as a secondary school teacher. Later on, he found a passion on archaeology and finished his doctorate in 1970 at

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over "Römische Quellheiligtum von Hochscheid im Hunsrück". He started his archaeological career as professor

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's assistant at the same university. In April 1973 he started his work at the German Mining Museum as a mining archaeologist, where he was active until the very end of his life. Since 1984 he was the assistant director of the museum.

Works

* Beobachtungen zum alten Kupferbergbau im Sultanat Oman, in: Der Anschnitt 29, H. 5-6, 1977, 190-211. * A New Kind of Copper Slag from Tawi 'Arja, Oman, in: Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 12/1, 1978, 40-43. * Evidence of Ancient Mining Sites in Oman: a Preliminary Report, in: The Journal of Oman Studies 4, 1978, 15-28. * Muscat in 1688: Engelbert Kaempferls Report and Engravings, in: The Journal of Oman Studies 5, 1979 (1982), 95-100. * Das römische Wasserheberad ais Rio Tinto in Spanien im British Museum London, Der Anschnitt, 1979, 62-79. * " ... und Kupfer in Oman" - Das Oman-Projekt des Deutschen Bergbau-Museums, in: Der Anschnitt 32, H. 2-3, 1980, 62-110. * Patterns of Early Islamic Metallurgy in Oman, in: Proc. of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 10, 1980, 115-126. * Archäologische und archäometallurgische Untersuchungen in Oman, in: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archäologie - Beiträge 2, 1980, 67-90. * GW/Hauptmann, Andreas: Third Millennium BC. Copper Production in Oman, in: Revue d'Arch6ometrie 3, 1980, 131-138 * Mehr als Kupfer in Oman - Ergebnisse der Expedition 1981, in: Der Anschnitt 33, H. 5-6, 1981, 174-263 * Makan and Meluhha - Third Millennium BC Copper Production in: Oman and the Evidence of Contact with the Indus Valley, in: Proc. of the 6th International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe, South Asian Archaeology 1981, 196-201 * Istiflal al-nahas fi Uman fi 1-alf al-talit qabl al-milad, Hasad 7, 1400 H./1980 AD., 181-227, Nadwat al-dirasat al-unaniyya (Kairo 1981) * Aspects of Late Iron Age Archaeology in Oman: The Samad-Civilization, in: Proc. of the Seminar of Arabian Studies 12, 1982, 81-94 * Kupferbergbau schon vor 4000 Jahren, in: WBK-Journal 4, 1982, 8 * Copper Production during the Third Millennium BC in Oman and the Question of Makan, in: The Journal of Oman Studies 6/2, 1983, 269-276 * GW/Roden, Christoph: Römische Schmiedeszenen und ihre Gebläse, Der Anschnitt 37, 1985, 2-21. * GW/Yule, Paul: The First Metal Hoard in Oman, in: South Asian Archaeology, 1985, 60 f., * Griechische Metallhandwerker und ihre Gebläse, Der Anschnitt, 1986, 2-26. * GW/al-Shanfari, Ali A. B.: Nineteenth Century British Lead Pigs in Oman, in: Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 20/1, 1986, 46-48 * Archaeological Evidence of Copper Exploitation at 'Arja, in: The Journal of Oman Studies 9, 1987, 145-172 * Hauptmann, Andreas/GW/Bachmann, Hans-Gert: Early Copper Metallurgy in Oman, in: BUMA (R. Madding, ed.), 1988, 34-51 * Oman: A Bronze-producing Centre during the 1st Half of the 1st Millennium BC, in: Bronze-working Centres of Western Asia c. 1000539 B.C. (J. Curtis, ed.), 1988, 285-295 * Yule, Paul, GW: Tales from Mazoon, in: PDO News, No. 2, 1989, 9-13 (englisch); 913 (arabisch), no ISBN * Al-Shanfari, Ali Bakhit/GW: A Late Bronze Age Warrior Burial from Nizwa (Oman), in: Oman Studies, 17-30. Rome 1989 (= Serie Orientale Roma 63) * A Gift from Bismarck to the Sultan of Zanzibar, in: Journal of Oman Studies, 10, 1989, 61-67 * Altägyptischer Hornsteinbergbau im Wadi el-Sheikh, Der Anschnitt, 1989, 186-210. * Montanarchäeologie, Archäeometallurgie der Alten Welt (Old World Archaeometallurgy), Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 7. 1989, 79-98. * Yule, Paul/GW: Samad Ash Shan, Sultanate of Oman, 1989, in: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 20, 1990, 141-144, * Montanarchäeologische Forschungen in Nordwest-Iran 1978, Archäeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Band 23, 1990, 73-84. * GW/ Kroll, Stephan, Gropp, Gerd, Hauptmann, Andreas, Das Bergbaurevier von Sungun bei Kighal in Azarbaidjan (Iran), Archäeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Band 23, 1990, 85-103. * Bergbau im Alten Ägypten, Das Altertum 37. Heft 3. 1991, 140-154. * Archäologisches Fundgut des 2. Jahrtausends v.Chr. in Oman Möglichkeiten zur chronologischen Gliederung, in: K. Schippmann/A. Herling/J.-F. Salles (eds.), Golf-Archäologie (= Internationale Archäologie 6), Buch am Erlbach 1991, 321-330, * GW/Yule, Paul: Excavation on the Late Iron Age cemeteries in the Wadi Samad, Sultanate of Oman, 1987, in: ebd., 331-335 * Die Suche nach dem altsumerischen Kupferland Makan, in: Das Altertum 37, H. 2, 1991, 76-90 * Slag heap search for Magan, in: PDO News, 2, 1992, 16-23; dgl. in arabisch, 16-23 * GW/ Seifert, Martina: Mittelalterliche Schmiede und ihre Gebläse, Der Anschnitt 44, 1992, 1-17. * Dokumentation montanarchäologischer Plätze am Beispiel von Hara Kilab in Oman - Probleme und Lösungsansätze, in: Studies in Oriental Culture and History, ed. Andreas Gingrich/Sylvia Haas/Gabriele Paleczek/Thomas Fillitz (Festschrift Walter Dostal), Frankfurt/Berlin/New York/Paris/Wien 1993, 49-67 * Yule, Paul/GW: Die 14. Deutsche Archäologische Oman-Expedition 1995, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin, 128, Berlin 1996, 135-155, * GW/ Pernicka, Ernst: Ore mining in prehistoric Europe: An overview, in G. Morteani and J. Northover (eds.), Prehistoric Gold in Europe, 1995, 159-182. * Magan's Copper, in: PDO News, 1, 1997, 7-11; dgl. in arabisch, 7-11 * A new type of flint exploitation in Oman (Arabia), in: Schild, Romuald/Sulgostowska, Zofia (eds.): Man and flint. Proceedings of the VIIth International Flint Symposium, Warzawa-Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. September 1995, Warzawa 1997, 153-157 * Speleology and archaeology of mining-a comparison, Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Speleology, 1997, Switzerland, Volume 6. 1997, 96-98. * P. Yule–G. Weisgerber, The Metal Hoard from ʿIbrī/Selme, Sultanate of Oman. Präh. Bronzefunde XX.7, Stuttgart 2001, Zur Geschichte der Bergbauarchäeologie, Nachrichten aus Niedersachsen Urgeschichte 66, 1997, 7-19. * GW/ Cierny, Jan: Tin for Ancient Anatolia? Dr Anschnitt, Beiheft 15, Anatolian Metal II, 2002, 179-186. * Boroffka, Nikolaus, Cierny, Jan, Lutz Joachim, Parzinger, Hermann, Pernicka, Ernst, Weisgerber, Gerd, 2002, Bronze Age tin from central Asia: Preliminary Notes, in Katie Boyle, Colin Renfrew, Marsha Levine (eds.) Ancient interactions: east and west in Eurasia, 135-159. * The impact of the dynamics of qanats and aflaj on oases in Oman: Comparison with Iran and Bahrain, Internationales Frontinus-Symposium: Wasserversorgung aus Qanaten-Qanate als Vorbilder im Tunnelbau, 2.-5. Oktober 2003, Luxemburg, Heft 26, 2003, 61-97. * Cierny, Jan/GW: Bronze Age tin mines in central Asia, in Alessandra Giumlia-Mair and Fulvia Lo Schiavo (eds.) The problem of early tin, BAR International Series, 2003, 23-31. * Stöllner, Thomas, Weisgerber, Gerd, Momenzadeh, Morteza, Pernicka, Ernst, Shirazi, Shahrzad, 2004, Die Blei-/Silbergruben von Nakhlak und ihre Bedeutung im Altertum, Der Anschnit 56, 76-96. * Prähistorischer Zinnbergbau in Mittelasien, Tüba-Ar, Turkish Academy of Sciences, Journal of Archaeology, 2010, 237-258. * , {{DEFAULTSORT:Weisgerber Gerd 1938 births 2010 deaths Archaeologists from Saarland People from Saarlouis (district)