Albert A. Genrich

Albert Genrich was born in 1912 and his career was spent, with only short breaks, in Hanover at the Landesmuseum for Lower Saxony. His membership of the Historical as well as the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony reflects his scholarship over a wide range of subject areas. Genrich was one of the founders, in 1949, of Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sachsenforschung, to foster studies in the lands around the North Sea, and was its president from 1964. He played a leading part in organizing its annual Sachsensymposia, of which that in 1973, when Dr Nowell Myres was president of the Antiquaries, took place in London and the Society was able to entertain the participants to a party in the library. Genrich was a prolific writer on the Migration period in Germany and his publications are significant for the period of Anglo-Saxon settlement in England. He conducted important excavations, especially at the Liebenau cemetery, and published his report in 1972. Formenkreise und Stammesgruppen in Schleswig-Holstein was published in 1954, and the first volume of Studien zur Sachsenforschung (1977) was dedicated to Genrich as a Festschrift in acknowledgement of his outstanding contribution to Saxon studies. He died on 20 June 1996.