Richard Kallee (18 December 1854 – 15 July 1933) was a German Protestant pastor.
Life and work
Richard Kallee was born on 18 December 1854 in
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a Cities of Germany, city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg (district), Lu ...
.
On 7 October 1877 he was ordained in the church of
Böblingen
Böblingen (; ) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous.
History
Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Bö ...
and then worked in the parishes of
Willsbach, Michelbach am Wald and the Collegiate Church of
Oehringen. He married Mathilde née Wunderlich, a daughter of the pastor Albert Wunderlich in
Echterdingen
Leinfelden-Echterdingen (; Swabian: ''Laefälda-Ächdordeng'') is a town in the district of Esslingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located approximately 10 km south of Stuttgart, near the Stuttgart Airport and directly adjacent t ...
. The couple had two sons: Walter Kallee was born in 1881, and Albert Kallee in 1884. On 15 September 1896 he took over the parish in
Feuerbach
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (; ; 28 July 1804 – 13 September 1872) was a German anthropologist and philosopher, best known for his book '' The Essence of Christianity'', which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced ge ...
, near
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...
.
On 16 July 1916 he received the
Charlotte Cross from
Queen Charlotte of Württemberg, when she visited his nursery. His service ended in October 1923 with the retirement.
Like his father, General
Eduard von Kallee
Eduard von Kallee (26 February 1818 in Ludwigsburg – 15 June 1888 in Stuttgart) was a German Major General and archaeologist.
Biography
From 1841 Kallee was adjutant to the Kingdom of Württemberg's Chief of Staff, and when he became a lieut ...
he was an enthusiastic historian and archaeologist. In
Pfedelbach
Pfedelbach is a town in the district of Hohenlohe in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
In 1472 the town and castle were bought by the counts of Hohenlohe. The present castle was built from 1568 to 1572 by the count of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg. Bei ...
he identified a ring of pre-Roman walls and mounds. He discovered in 1903 prehistoric fortifications and a village fortress on the
Lemberg (Stuttgart).
From 1904 he discovered several
Alemannic graves,
tombs
A tomb ( ''tumbos'') or sepulchre () is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called ''immurement'', althou ...
and sandstone
cist
In archeology, a cist (; also kist ;
ultimately from ; cognate to ) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb. Examples occur ac ...
s in Feuerbach. A total of 102 tombs were excavated and documented by him and his team.
[Heinz Krämer: ]
Fertig Feuerbach! Richard Kallee, Pfarrer und Geschichtsforscher
'' in German, DRW Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2004, .[Richard Kallee: ]
Was die alten Steine in Feuerbach erzählen
'' in German, 1923. Together with his helpers he took great care to recover 760 artifacts from these Alemannic graves: skulls and bones, coins, pottery shards, combs, necklaces, belts, locks, swords, spears, arrows and spores, which he researched and published up to the end of his life.
In August and September 1912, the finds from the excavations were exhibited on the Feuerbach trade exhibition, where they were presented to a large number of spectators. On the first Sunday of the exhibition more than twenty thousand visitors attended the show, and on 16 September King
William II of Württemberg
William II (; 25 February 1848 – 2 October 1921) was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the dissolution of the kingdom on 30 November 1918. He was the last German ruler to abdicate in the wake of the November Rev ...
also took his time to get an explanation of the exhibits by Kallee. An exhibition brochure was published especially for this event with the title "Feuerbach in Prehistory and Early History: Guide to the Feuerbach Antiquities Collection" at a cost of 30 pfennigs. On 4 November 1926 the Feuerbach Museum of Local History was inaugurated under Kallee’s directorate. In 1938, the former Paulinenstrasse was renamed in his memory to Kalleestrasse.
He died in Feuerbach on 15 July 1933, just three weeks after his wife, and was buried in an honorary grave in the cemetery there, which is still maintained by Stuttgart City Council. His funeral was attended by the Stuttgart Mayor Paul, some representatives of the Tübingen Royal Society Roigel, the Swabian Schiller Society and the Wednesday Club. The pastor of Cannstatt Jöhne praised his eloquence, his open, healthy character, which had however no lack of corners and edges, and especially his love for the homeland and its history. The local historian and museum curator Prof. Peter Goessler said in his obituary: "Kallee was mentally agile, versatile, interested, and capable of quickly reporting about things that impressed him as a skilled orator and writer."
References
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1854 births
1933 deaths
German archaeologists