Hans Klumbach

Hans Klumbach (26 April 1904 – 14 December 1992) was a German archaeologist and scholar of classical and provincial Roman studies.

Hans Klumbach was born on 26 April 1904 in Wolfach, in the German district of Ortenaukreis.

[1] After leaving school Klumbach embarked on a travel scholarship awarded by the German Archaeological Institute, after which he worked as a scientific assistant for the institute in Rome and Athens.

[1] Klumbach served in the military from 1940 to 1947 including during World War II, for part of which time he was imprisoned.

[1] Spätrömische Gardehelme, his resulting 1973 work, surveyed the newly restored group of late Roman ridge helmets from the fourth and fifth century AD,[2] fitting them into a typology between the helmets of the early Roman Empire and the early medieval Spangenhelme.

Colour photograph of the Berkasovo I helmet
The Berkasovo I helmet, one of the late Roman ridge helmets surveyed by Klumbach