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Karl Schlabow (27 April 1891 – 30 September 1984) was a German archaeologist, museum director and conservator with specialisations in textiles and in restoration of bog bodies. He founded the Neumünster Textile Museum. Since his death, his restorations have been called into question as overly aggressive. ==Life and career== Born in Neumünster, Schlabow studied painting at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, then spent two years in Peru. On his return in 1926, on the recommendation of the textile manufacturer Ludwig Simons, he became director of the Neumünster city museum, which he developed into a textile museum.〔Klaus Tidow, "Vom 'Städtischen Museum' zum Textil- und Industriemuseum Neumünster", ''Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde'' 19 (1987), ISSN 0341-8030, 151–69 〕〔Beatrix Hoffmann, ''Das Museumsobjekt als Tausch- und Handelsgegenstand: Zum Bedeutungswandel musealer Objekte im Kontext der Veräußerungen aus dem Sammlungsbestand des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin'', Kulturwissenschaft 33, (): LIT, 2012, ISBN 9783643113139, (p. 118 ) 〕 On the advice of Otto Lehmann of the museum at Altona, Schlabow made an intensive study of the history of textiles and textile handcrafts, and in 1928 he was commissioned by Gustav Schwantes of the Kiel Museum of Prehistory to catalogue and arrange that museum's textile holdings, which dated to the Bronze Age and Iron Age and came from archaeological investigations of peat bogs and burial mounds. Several thousand years old, poorly preserved and extremely delicate, the finds were unattractive in appearance and unsuited to exhibition. With the assistance of a long-time assistant, Willi Schramm, and others, Schlabow restored them, including recreating missing sections as accurately as possible. A travelling exhibit of the pieces toured museums in Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin for over three years with great success, and then became an important part of the permanent exhibition at the Neumünster Textile Museum. Schlabow was also a close associate of Herbert Jankuhn, the SS officer who directed the Museum of Fatherland Antiquities at Kiel, forerunner of the Schleswig-Holstein State Archaeological Museum at Gottorf Castle. He himself was a member of the Ahnenerbe, was on Ahnenerbe teams that examined the Bayeux Tapestry during the Nazi occupation of France,〔Sylvette Lemagnen, "The Bayeux Tapestry under German occupation. New light on the mission led by Herbert Jankuhn during the Second World War", in ''The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History'', ed. Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux, Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2004, ISBN 9782841332137, pp. 49–64, (pp. 55–56, 61 ).〕 and after World War II was interned until 1947. He then returned to the Neumünster museum and rebuilt the severely damaged building and collection. While continuing with this task, in 1948 he moved from there to Schleswig, where he was involved in developing the state archaeological museum and participated in the conservation of the bog finds from Thorsberg moor and Nydam Mose. He was responsible for the reconstruction of almost all the then known Iron Age textiles,〔 conducted experiments including weaving two Prachtmäntel (ceremonial cloaks) on reconstructed period looms,〔Maria Cybulska, "To See the Unseen—Computer Graphics in Visualisation and Reconstruction of Archaeological and Historical Textiles", in ''Computer Graphics'', ed. Nobuhiko Mukai, n.p.: InTech, 2012, ISBN 978-953-51-0455-1, , pp. 213–28, note 1, p. 217 ((pdf ))〕 and published numerous articles. He continued to work intensively in the field of Iron Age textile archaeology after his retirement, and in 1976 published ''Textilfunde der Eisenzeit in Norddeutschland'', a book summing up his knowledge in the field. He is buried in the cemetery at Neumünster.〔(Photograph of his grave ), Friedhof Neumünster.〕 His work included the reconstruction of Bronze Age clothing from mound burials in Denmark, including those of Egtved Girl, Skrydstrup Woman and the Borum Eshøj burials, and Iron Age clothing from bog finds in Germany and Denmark, including the Thorsberg Prachtmantel.〔E. J. W. Barber, ''Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: With Special Reference to the Aegean'', Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, 1991, ISBN 9780691035970, (p. 192 ).〕 He worked on the so-called building sacrifices from the Tofting dwelling hill, Peiting Woman, and some of the finds from the Nydam and Thorsberg bogs.〔Thomas Brock, ("Windeby: Geheimnis der Moorleichen gelüftet" ) ''Der Spiegel'', 17 February 2007 〕 He was a pioneer of textile archaeology, and together with the Danish archaeologist Margarete Hald, established it as a respected field. His publications remained standard works for decades. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl Schlabow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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