Alste Horn-Oncken

Alste Horn-Oncken (born May 13, 1910 in Heidelberg ; † May 27, 1991 in Göttingen ) was a German art historian .

She was the daughter of the historian Hermann Oncken and his wife Margarethe, b. Weber (1876-1954). After attending the girls' high school in Munich and graduating from high school in 1928, she studied art history in Munich, Berlin and Bonn and was awarded a doctorate in Munich in 1935. phil. PhD. Since 1936 she was married to the classical archaeologist Rudolf Horn . From 1940 to 1945 she was employed as a research assistant in the information department or news department, archive of the Foreign Office .

Alste Oncken's importance is based essentially on her fundamental and comprehensive research on the work of the architect Friedrich Gilly , which she first presented to the public in 1935 with the print version of her dissertation. In later years she dealt with questions of architecture theory, in particular with the Roman architect Vitruvius , which she summarized in 1967 in her second major work "On the Fateful".

Fonts

• Friedrich Gilly. 1772-1800. (Dissertation University of Munich, 1934), Berlin 1935 (= research on German art history 5); Corrected, but essentially unchanged reprint of the 1st edition: Berlin 1981 (= The Buildings and Art Monuments of Berlin , Supplement 7)
• About the decent. Studies on the history of architectural theory. (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , Phil.-Hist. Klasse, 3rd volume, No. 70), Göttingen 1967
• Excursion to Elysian fields. The European Campania picture of the 16th and 17th centuries and the notes of JFA von Uffenbach . (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , Phil.-Hist. Klasse, 3rd part, No. 111), Göttingen 1978

literature

• Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: G-K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 374.