Alfons Wotschitzky

Alfons Wotschitzky (born November 10, 1917 in Innsbruck , † August 7, 1969 in Mehrerau ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Wotschitzky spent his childhood and early youth in the Innsbruck district of Wilten . Here he found the first coins in the area of ​​the old Roman Veldidena early on , and researching it he was to make valuable excavations twenty years later. After attending grammar schools in Innsbruck and Bregenz , he began studying classical philology and archeology at the University of Innsbruck . His teachers were Karl Jax , Albin Lesky and Heinrich Sitte . In 1941 he was with the dissertation The boundaries of archaism doctorate and makes then to 1942 military service. He then worked as an assistant and completed his habilitation in 1948 with Otto Walter with the text Investigations on the Early History of the Corinthian Architectural Style for Classical Archeology. In 1951 he received an extraordinary position as the successor to Otto Walter, who moved to Vienna . He retained the ordinariate that he received ten years later until his unexpected death.

In 1948 he was involved in excavations in Ostia Antica and in 1953 with his companions Karl Kromer and Karl Mang in investigations of the Elymer city of Entella . Also in 1953, together with Leonhard Franz and Osmund Menghin, he began an emergency excavation at Roman Veldidena in his youth. In the course of these excavations, which continued until 1957, a cemetery was uncovered and a late Roman fort was excavated.

Fonts (selection)

• The culture of the Romans . VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1979
• The culture of classical antiquity . Academic Publishing Company Athenaion, Frankfurt (am Main) 1969
• Ancient Rome: An Introduction to the Essence of Its Monumental Art . F. Rauch, Innsbruck 1950
• The ancient sculpture and the humanistic thought . F. Rauch, Innsbruck 1947
• The limits of archaism . 1941 (also dissertation, Innsbruck 1941)

literature

• Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 464 ( Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99).
• Brinna Otto : Alfons Wotschitzky . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering : Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . Verlag Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3805309716 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfons Wotschitzky in the catalog of the German National Library