Adolf Schöll

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Gustav Adolf Schöll (born September 2, 1805 in Brno , † May 26, 1882 in Jena ) was a German archaeologist , librarian, philologist, literary historian and writer.

Schöll studied in Tübingen and Göttingen , completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1833, traveled to Italy and Greece with Karl Otfried Müller from 1839–40 , followed a call to Halle as a professor of archeology in 1842 , became director of the Weimar Art Institute in 1843 , and head librarian there in 1861. He died in Jena at the age of 76.

From 1842 Adolf Schöll was married to Johanna Henle, the sister of the pathologist Jakob Henle . The couple had a daughter and four sons, including the military engineer Wilhelm Schöll (1843-1870), the lawyer Robert Schöll and the classical philologists Rudolf Schöll (1844-1893) and Fritz Schöll (1850-1919).

Of his literary works, only the early story Der arme Stephan is known today, which Wilhelm Hauff recorded in his fairy tale almanac for sons and daughters of the educated classes for the year 1827 .

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