Karl Bernhard Stark

Photography by Karl Bernhard Stark.

Karl Bernhard Stark (born October 2, 1824 in Jena , † October 12, 1879 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Stark came from a family of scholars; his father was the Jena medicine professor Karl Wilhelm Stark and his mother Emilie Martin (1799–1876). From the summer semester of 1842 to the autumn of 1845 he studied philosophy and philology at the universities of Jena and Leipzig . In 1845 he took his master's degree in Jena and received his doctorate in the same year , followed by a second master's degree in philology in 1846. At the same time he carried out various private studies and went on a study trip to Italy in July 1847.

By August Boeckh Stark was brought to the study of the ancient art. In 1848 he completed his habilitation in Jena with the work De tellure dea deque eius imagine a Manuel Phile descripta . From 1850 he was associate professor, from 1851 vice director of the Archaeological Museum in Jena. On May 23, 1850 he married Wilhelmine Johanna Walther (1826–1900), with whom he had a son and three daughters. On August 9, 1855, he was appointed to the newly established chair for archeology in Heidelberg , which he held until his death in 1879. In 1863 he turned down a call to the University of Dorpat , and in 1866 the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University was founded on his initiative . In 1859 and 1871/1872 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty, also in 1871/1872 a member of the inner senate of the university and in 1873 and from autumn 1874 to spring 1875 its prorector. The art historian Friedrich Klopfleisch was one of his students and later his brother-in-law, as he married Stark's sister Helene Selma (1838–1887).

One of his most important works is a monograph on the history of Gaza . With his book on Niobe and Niobids, the myth moved into the focus of his activity. Stark often dealt with local Roman monuments, but also with Heidelberg Castle . He edited the second edition of the third part of Karl Friedrich Hermann's textbook on Greek antiquities (private antiquities , Leipzig 1870). A new trip to the Greek Orient provided material for a series of reports which he later processed in the work To the Greek Orient (Heidelberg 1874).

Stark was a full member of the Académie royale de Belgique from 1852 and a member of the Royal Saxon Society for Sciences in Leipzig from 1854 . In 1874 he received the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

His grave is on the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in the (Dept. D), the so-called "Professorenweg". The tombstone, a massive granite boulder carved into a cubic shape, is provided with a white marble plaque in which the names Carl Bernhard Stark and Wilhelmine Stark, nee. Walther struck.

Fonts

• Quaestiones anacreonticarum. Leipzig 1846.
• De Tellure Dea Deque Eius Imagine A Manuele Phile Descripta. Dissertation, Jena 1848.
• Art and school. On the German school reform. Jena 1848.
• Research on the history of the Hellenistic Orient: Gaza and the Philistine coast. Jena 1852.
• Archaeological Studies. Wetzlar 1852 (result of a trip through France and Belgium).
• City life, art and antiquity in France. In addition to an appendix about Antwerp. Jena 1855.
• Leonardo da Vinci. A presentation. Jena 1858.
• Niobe and the Niobids in their literary, artistic and mythological significance. Leipzig 1863.
• Ladenburg am Neckar and its Roman finds. Bonn 1868.
• Gigantomachy on ancient reliefs and the Temple of Jupiter Tonans in Rome. Heidelberg 1869.
• From the realm of Tantalus and Croesus. A travel study. Berlin 1872.
• Handbook of the Archeology of Art. Volume 1, Leipzig 1878 (containing the systematics of archeology and a history of archaeological studies).
• The Heidelberg Castle in its artistic and cultural historical significance. Heidelberg 1881.

literature

• Wilhelm Frommel : Carl Bernh. Strong . In: Annual report on the progress of the class. Antiquity Science Vol. 16: Biographisches Jahrbuch 2, 1879, pp. 40–45.
• Heinrich Brunn : Laocoon, in memory of Karl Bernhard Stark . In: Archäologische Zeitung 37, 1879, p. 22 ff.
• Karl Bernhard Stark. In: General school newspaper for the entire education system. Organ of the Association for Scientific Pedagogy 56 (1879) 45, pp. 356–357.
• Richard Hoche :  Stark, Karl Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 488-490.
• Tonio Hölscher : Karl Bernhard Stark 1824–1879. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 49-50 ( online ).
• Tonio Hölscher:  Stark, Karl (Carl) Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Dagmar Drüll (Ed.): Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803–1932. Springer, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 , pp. 259 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Bernhard Stark  - Sources and full texts

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• Literature by and about Karl Bernhard Stark in the catalog of the German National Library