Alfred Brueckner

Alfred Brueckner (born September 7, 1861 in Magdeburg , † January 15, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Alfred Brueckner studied classical philology , ancient history and archeology and received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1886 under Adolf Michaelis with the dissertation ornament and shape of Attic grave steles . After completing his studies, Brueckner traveled to Greece and Asia Minor from 1888 to 1890 as a travel fellow of the German Archaeological Institute . He then worked until his retirement in 1924 as a teacher at the Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Schöneberg near Berlin and continued to deal with archeology. He was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 1892), board member of the Archaeological Society in Berlin, participated in the excavation campaign in Troy under Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1893 and gave numerous lectures. From October 1, 1909 to September 30, 1910 he took leave for a research trip to Athens. Between 1913 and 1930 he carried out excavations in the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens.

Brueckner's main work for archaeological research was the corpus of Attic grave reliefs , on which he had been working since his dissertation and his trip to Greece. After the death of the project manager Alexander Conze , he took over the editing of the work, so that the fourth volume could appear in 1922.

Brueckner died after a long illness on January 15, 1936 in Berlin.

literature

• Rudolf HW engraver : Alfred Brueckner . 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. 144-145.

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Brueckner  - Sources and full texts

• Alfred Brückner's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)