Alexander Conze

Conze in the 1870s

Alexander Conze during the excavations on Samothrace (1870s)

Alexander Conze (born December 10, 1831 in Hanover , † July 19, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German archaeologist and university professor. He became famous as the director of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities.

Life

Conze studied from 1851 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1852 he was reciprocated in the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen . He excelled on all three batches . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . With a dissertation on pictorial representations of the soul with Eduard Gerhard , he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD. In the summer of the same year he headed the oKC of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . In 1861 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen. In 1863 he was offered a professorship at the Friedrich University of Halle as a private lecturer in Göttingen . In 1869 he went as a professor of archeology at the University of Vienna , where he the newly created until 1877 professorship headed. In 1877 Conze was appointed director of the sculpture museum in Berlin. Here the exploration of the ancient city of Pergamon was the focus of his work. In addition, he headed the general secretariat of the German Archaeological Institute . With the engineer Carl Humann Conze began in 1878 with the excavation of Pergamon in northwest Asia Minor (until 1894), which was later continued by the founder of modern excavation methods, Wilhelm Dörpfeld , and Theodor Wiegand and 1957–1968 by Erich Boehringer . Conze was also involved in the excavations in Samothrace .

Conze is the father of the women's rights activist Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze and the Imperial Court Councilor Hans Conze and thus the grandfather of the social historian Werner Conze and the grandfather of the SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen-SS Gustav Krukenberg .

Memberships

Plaque for Alexander Conze 1905

Medal Alexander Conze 1877

memory

Adolf Brütt created the portrait relief Alexander Conzes in 1905 in a marble version for the conference room of the German Archaeological Institute and in a smaller bronze version as a counterpart to the portrait of Eugen Petersen, who was retired at the same time . This relief also was sold commercially as a plaque. Already earlier, in 1877, a medal had been dedicated to Alexander Conze. It was commissioned by friends and students on the occasion of his move from Vienna to Berlin and made by the Viennese medalist Josef Tautenhayn . In 1912 Fritz Klimsch created a bronze bust that until a few years ago stood under the altar next to Humann.

Fonts

Travel to the islands of the Thracian Sea. Rümpler, Hannover 1860, ( digitized version ).
as editor: Melische Thongefäß. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1862, ( online ).
Trip to the island of Lesvos. Rümpler, Hanover 1865, ( digitized version ).
The family of Augustus. A relief in S. Vitale in Ravenna. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle 1867, ( digitized ).
On the importance of classical archeology. An inaugural lecture given at the University of Vienna on April 15, 1869. Gerold, Vienna 1869.
Contributions to the history of Greek sculpture. With XI plates, mostly after casts from the archaeological museum of the Royal University of Halle - Wittenberg, drawn and lithographed by Hermann Schenck. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle 1869, ( digitized ).
as editor: Sheets for archaeological exercises. Series 1-6, 1869-1874.
On the history of the beginnings of Greek art. 1870-1873;
- (Part 1): In: Session reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Vol. 64, 1870, ISSN 1012-487X , pp. 505-534 ;
- (Part 2): In: Session reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Vol. 73, 1873, pp. 221-250 .
as editor: Roman sculptures from indigenous sites in Austria. 3 booklets. Gerold in Commission, Vienna 1872–1877, ( digitized version of the three booklets );
- Book 1: Three sarcophagi from Salona. 1872;
- Booklet 2: Sculptures in Pettau and St. Martin am Pacher. 1875;
- Book 3: Sculptures in Cilli, Pettau and Seckau. 1877.
Heroes and gods in Greek art. 2 deliveries = 2 departments. Waldheim, Vienna 1874–1875.
with Alois Hauser and George Niemann : Archaeological investigations. 2 volumes. Gerold, Vienna 1875–1880.
Theseus and Minotaur (= program for the Winckelmann Festival of the Archaeological Society of Berlin. 38, ZDB -ID 520559-1 ). Archäologische Gesellschaft ua, Berlin 1878, ( online ).

In his capacity as director of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , he played an important role in the implementation of the Pergamene expeditions to reclaim the large altar frieze and participated in the reports published on it ( The results of the excavations in Pergamon. Preliminary report . Berlin 1880 and 1882; digitized by of the Heidelberg University Library ).

literature

Adolf Borbein : Alexander Conze 1831–1914. In: portraits of archaeologists . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Pp. 59-60, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 .
Friedrich Goethert : Conze, Alexander Christian Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 348 ( digitized version ).
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff : Alexander Conze (1831-1914) . Meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1916, pp. 754–759.

Web links

Wikisource: Alexander Conze - Sources and full texts

Commons : Alexander Conze - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 94/266
↑ Dissertation: De Psyches imaginibus quibusdam .
↑ Cf. the essay dedicated to Werner Conze as a “commemorative article”: Bernhard vom Brocke: “Von des Attischen Reiches Herrlichkeit” or the “modernization” of antiquity in the age of the nation state. With an excursus on the destruction of the Wilamowitz School by National Socialism . Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 243, 1986, pp. 101-136, here p. 101.
↑ Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, pp. 52–55 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Conze, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conze, Alexander Christian Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1914
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 94/266

[2] Dissertation: De Psyches imaginibus quibusdam .

[3] Cf. the essay dedicated to Werner Conze as a “commemorative article”: Bernhard vom Brocke: “Von des Attischen Reiches Herrlichkeit” or the “modernization” of antiquity in the age of the nation state. With an excursus on the destruction of the Wilamowitz School by National Socialism . Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 243, 1986, pp. 101-136, here p. 101.

[4] Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, pp. 52–55 ( online ).