Georg Loeschcke

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Georg Loeschcke
Georg Loeschcke (1906). Photo by Aura Hertwig

Georg Loeschcke (born June 28, 1852 in Penig , Saxony, † November 26, 1915 in Baden-Baden ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

The son of a pharmacist attended high school in Plauen from 1865 to 1871 . He then began studying philology and history in Leipzig, but increasingly also archeology with Johannes Overbeck . One of his fellow students was Adolf Furtwängler , with whom he had been friends since then. In 1873 Loeschcke moved to the University of Bonn , where he studied primarily with the historian Arnold Schaefer and the archaeologist Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz . In 1875 he received his doctorate from Schäfer with a thesis on Attic inscriptions ( De titulis aliquot Atticis quaestiones historicae , Bonn 1876) and then devoted himself increasingly to archeology.

In 1877 Loeschcke successfully applied for a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), primarily to research antique vases. He first traveled to Italy, where he stayed in the winter of 1877/78, with a further scholarship in 1878 accompanied by Furtwängler to Greece. At the end of 1878 he returned to Leipzig and worked there on a work written together with Furtwängler on Mycenaean clay vessels , which was followed a few years later by a second joint work.

In 1879 Loeschcke became Professor of Classical Philology and Archeology at the University of Dorpat , where he conducted research on the prehistory of the Baltic in addition to his teaching activities. In 1889 he was offered a position at the University of Freiburg , but before he could take up his position, Friedrich Althoff called him to Bonn to succeed Kekulé. In addition to a rich teaching activity, Loeschcke expanded the collections of the Academic Art Museum there, especially in the area of ​​plaster casts and antique clay vessels. In addition, with the help of a patroness, he was able to acquire the libraries of Theodor Mommsen and Hermann Usener for the Academic Art Museum. To better accommodate the collections, Loeschcke implemented an extension for the museum, which was completed in 1908. In 1895/96 he was dean of the faculty and in 1909/10 he was rector of the university.

In 1912 Loeschcke was appointed to the Berlin University, again as Kekulé's successor. In Berlin, too, he immediately set about expanding the teaching collections and planning to expand the rooms of the archaeological seminar. In 1915 Loeschcke fell seriously ill and was represented by his student Margarete Bieber . He died of a stroke during a cure in Baden-Baden.

In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1913 Loeschcke was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Loeschcke was married to Katharina Jäger for the first time in 1879, with whom he had a daughter and six sons, including the theologian Gerhard Loeschcke (1880–1912), the pathologist Hermann Loeschcke (1882–1958), Siegfried Loeschcke (1883–1956) , who like his father became an archaeologist, and the painter Reinhard Loeschcke (1887–1920). After the death of his first wife in 1912, Loeschcke married his student Charlotte Fränkel in 1915 .

Services

Loeschcke understood classical archeology less as an art history of antiquity, but as the exploration of the entire material culture of antiquity. During his time in Bonn he was also interested in the Rhenish soil antiquities. He supported the research of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes suggested by Theodor Mommsen and was responsible for the northernmost section of the Limes as route commissioner for the excavations and field research that began in 1892. In 1894 he was appointed to the Reich Limes Commission and in 1895 to the central management of the DAI. There he worked together with Alexander Conze for the establishment of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the DAI, which took place in 1901. In addition to working on the Limes, Loeschcke was also involved in researching the Roman camps in Haltern and the Kaiserthermen in Trier .

During his time in Bonn and Berlin, Loeschcke published less than other archaeologists, such as Furtwängler, but was praised as an academic teacher. Hans Dragendorff , Georg Karo , Richard Delbrueck , Carl Watzinger , August Frickenhaus and Paul Jacobsthal did their doctorates with him . Of particular importance was Loeschcke's acceptance of female students, he completed his doctorate with Margarete Bieber and Elvira Fölzer, the first two women archaeologists in Germany, as well as Charlotte Fränkel , Margret Heinemann and Viktoria von Lieres and Wilkau . Outside the university, he disseminated archaeological knowledge in lectures and summer courses for high school teachers, which he held from 1890.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mycenaean clay vessels , 1879 (with Adolf Furtwängler)
  • Mycenaean vases , 1886 (with Adolf Furtwängler)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Loeschcke  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Loeschcke, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1915
Place of death Baden-Baden