Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis (born June 22, 1835 in Kiel , † August 12, 1910 in Strasbourg ) was a German classical archaeologist .

origin

His parents were the physician and obstetrician Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798–1848) and his wife Julie (Juliane) Jahn (1806–1892). His grandfather was the orientalist Johann David Michaelis , his uncle the archaeologist Otto Jahn . One of his nephews was the historian Eduard Pelissier .

Live and act

Michaelis was already interested in antiquity during his high school days at the Kiel School of Academics . In 1853 he began his studies in classical philology and archeology at the University of Leipzig , continued it in Berlin in 1854/55 and then studied from 1855 to 1857 in Kiel , where he received his doctorate with a thesis on Horace .

In 1859/60 he and Alexander Conze received the first travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute with which he traveled to Greece. In 1861 he completed his habilitation in Kiel and in 1862 he became an associate professor for archeology and head of the cast collection at the University of Greifswald . From 1865 to 1872 he was a full professor of classical philology and archeology and director of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Tübingen . In 1872 he took over the chair of archeology at the newly founded University of Strasbourg . Here he was able to set up a large archaeological institute with a teaching collection, a cast collection and a library. From 1894 to 1899 he was also the interim administrator of the Egyptological collection.

family

Adolf Michaelis married Luise von der Launitz (1841–1869), a daughter of the sculptor Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz (1797–1869) and his wife Therese von Soiron (1803–1861). The couple had a son. After the early death of his first wife, Adolf Michaelis married Minna Trendelenburg (1842–1924), a daughter of the philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, in Berlin in 1874 . The couple had three sons and a daughter.

Fonts

• The Parthenon. Leipzig 1870–71. ( Vol. 1 and 2 @ Heidelberg University Library )
• History of the German Archaeological Institute, 1829–1879. Berlin 1879 ( @ Heidelberg University Library )
• Talk about the development of archeology in our century. Strasbourg 1881.
• Ancient Marbles in Great Britain , Cambridge, 1882. ( Internet Archive )
• On the Aristotelian doctrine of ΝΟΥΣ , Neu-Strelitz, 1888. ( Internet Archive )
• Bibliography for the seventh edition of the first volume of Anton Springer's Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte , Leipzig, 1904. ( Internet Archive )
• The archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth century. Leipzig 1906. ( @ Heidelberg University Library )
  • 2nd ed. And title: A century of art archaeological discoveries. Leipzig 1908. ( Internet Archive )
• Antiquity. [Vol. 1 by Anton Springer (Ed.): Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte ]. Leipzig 1911.
• Archaeological journeys in Greece in 1860 and 1886. Ed., Introduced and commented on by Hans von Steuben . Möhnesee 2004. ISBN 3-933925-47-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frédéric Colin: Comment la création d'une 'bibliothèque de papyrus' à Strasbourg compensa la perte des manuscrits précieux brûlés dans le siège de 1870. In: La revue de la BNU 2, 2010, pp. 24-47 (online) .

literature

• Scientific Society Strasbourg (ed.): Adolf Michaelis for memory . Strasbourg 1913 [with an autobiography (written in 1903) and a list of publications]
• Hugo Blümner , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 1910, No. 236
• Eugen Petersen , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst NF 22 (1911) pp. 191–196.
• Bruno Sauer , in: Die Heimat 22 (1912) S. 148ff.
• Hartmut Döhl , in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Vol. 7, 1985, pp. 134-136.
• Hartmut Döhl: Adolf Michaelis 1835–1910. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 61-62.
• Hartmut Döhl:  Michaelis, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 429-439 ( digitized version ).
• Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Vol. 7, 1998, pp. 120-121.
• Erika Simon : Adolf Michaelis, life and work . Steiner, Stuttgart 2006 ( meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 44, 3). ISBN 978-3-515-08976-0 ; ISBN 3-515-08976-4 .

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Michaelis  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Adolf Michaelis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Adolf Michaelis  in the German Digital Library
• Dictionary of Art Historians