Hans Klumbach (26 April 1904 – 14 December 1992) was a German archaeologist and scholar of classical and provincial Roman studies. He served as a curator at, and later the director of, the Romano-Germanic Central Museum. His 1973 work Spätrömische Gardehelme laid bare the relationship between the late Roman ridge helmets and the later Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxoncrested helmets.
Klumbach was considered an expert on Roman helmets.[1] In 1957 he published the fragments of one such helmet discovered in Faurndau and supervised their conservation, and subsequently he did the same for helmets unearthed in Bad Cannstatt, Welzheim, and Aalen.[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.[3]