Adolf Boetticher

Adolf Gustav Boetticher (also Adolf Bötticher ; born December 12, 1842 in Blumberg , Niederbarnim , Brandenburg ; † June 9, 1901 in Warnicken , Samland , East Prussia ) was a German architect and preservationist . He was involved in excavations in Greece and published an eight-volume publication on architectural and art monuments in East Prussia .

Life

His father Heinrich Adolf Boetticher was a Protestant preacher in Blumberg, his mother Emilie Pauline a daughter of the justice of the peace Schollinus. Adolf Boetticher studied at the Berlin Building Academy from 1865 to 1868 and then worked as an architect in the public sector. In 1875 he was given the technical management of the German excavations in Olympia , which were carried out under the direction of the archaeologist Gustav Hirschfeld . From 1877 he worked as a technical assistant for the city of Berlin and published the weekly newspaper for architects and engineers from 1879 to 1882 , in which he reported on the excavations in Greece and Cyprus.

In 1886 Adolf Boetticher was entrusted with the inventory of the architectural and art monuments of the Prussian province of East Prussia and in 1891 was appointed provincial curator for East Prussia. He was subsequently also the head of the Monument Office of the Province of East Prussia . From 1892 to 1898 he published eight volumes of the architectural and art monuments of the Province of East Prussia and in 1899 was appointed Provincial Curator for West Prussia .

Publications

• On Greek country roads . Paetel, Berlin 1883 (archive.org) (Reprints: Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-86444-004-5 ; Nicosia 2017)
• Olympia. The festival and its place. According to the reports of the ancients and the results of the German excavations . Springer, Berlin 1883. (2nd edition. 1886. (Heidelberg University Library) ; reprint of the 1886 edition: Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-726-6 ).
• The Acropolis of Athens. According to the reports of the ancients and the latest research. Springer, Berlin 1888 (archive.org) .
• The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. Königsberg 1894–1898
  • Volume 1: The architectural and art monuments of the Samland. 1898. (archive.org)
  • Volume 2: The architectural and art monuments in Natangen. 1898. (archive.org)
  • Volume 3: The architectural and art monuments of the Oberland. 1898. (archive.org)
  • Volume 4: The architectural and art monuments in Warmia. 1894. (archive.org)
  • Volume 5: The architectural and art monuments in Lithuania. 1895. (archive.org)
  • Volume 6: The architectural and art monuments in Masuria. 1896. (archive.org)
  • Volume 7: The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. 1897. (archive.org)
  • Volume 8: From the cultural history of East Prussia. Supplements. 1898. (archive.org)
  • Volume 9: Directory of names and locations. 1899, from Walter von Schimmelpfennig.

literature

• Fritz Gause :  Bötticher, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 411 f. ( Digitized version ). (with incorrect information about the place of birth as "Blumenberg (administrative district Potsdam)")
• Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. Special edition. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Boetticher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by Adolf Boetticher in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii