Andreas Rumpf
Andreas Rumpf (born December 3, 1890 in Potsdam , † June 22, 1966 in Cologne ) was a German classical archaeologist .
family
One of the six children of the painter Fritz Rumpf (1856–1927) (the elder) and his wife Margarete Rumpf, b. Gatterer, who worked with numerous artists such as u. a. were friends with the painter Lovis Corinth . The father built Villa Rumpf in Potsdam in 1895 .
All six siblings, like the eldest daughter Gertraut, the eldest son Fritz Rumpf (the younger) (1888–1949) and the second oldest son Karl-Heinrich (1889–1914), died in 1914 in Lotz and the youngest son Andreas was already born introduced to art early on.
Life
Andreas Rumpf studied classical archeology with Franz Studniczka in Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1915 with a thesis on the wall paintings in Veji . At the same place he completed his habilitation in 1923 with a thesis on the Chalcidian vases , a special group of black-figure ceramics . In 1928 he took over the newly established professorship for Classical Archeology at the University of Cologne , which he held until his retirement in 1960. In 1940 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
His estate is in the Cologne University Archives .
Fonts (selection)
- Chalcidian vases. de Gruyter, Berlin 1927.
- Painting and drawing of classical antiquity (= handbook of classical studies . Dept. 6: Handbook of archeology. Vol. 4). Beck, Munich 1953.
- Archeology. Volume 1: Introduction. Historical overview (= Göschen Collection . 538). de Gruyter, Berlin 1953.
- Archeology. Volume 2: The language of archaeologists. The antique reproductions (= Göschen Collection. 539). de Gruyter, Berlin 1956.
- Style phases of late antique art. An attempt (= Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Humanities. 44, ISSN 0570-5649 ). Westdeuter Verlag, Cologne et al. 1957.
literature
- Tobias Dohrn (Ed.): Festschrift Andreas Rumpf. For the 60th birthday offered by friends and students. Scherpe, Krefeld 1952.
- Tobias Dohrn: Andreas Rumpf †. In: Gnomon . Vol. 38, No. 7, 1966, pp. 734-736, JSTOR 27684049 .
- Tobias Dohrn: Andreas Rumpf 1890–1966. In: portraits of archaeologists . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 252-253.
- Adolf Greifenhagen : Memorial words for Andreas Rumpf, died June 22, 1966. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1967, pp. 609-611.
- Henner von Hesberg : Andreas Rumpf (1890–1966) in letters to colleagues and students. In: Boreas. Vol. 14/15, 1991/1992, ISSN 0344-810X , pp. 215-220.
- Henner von Hesberg: Rumpf, Andreas. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1096-1098.
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Rumpf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andreas Rumpf in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rumpf, Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1966 |
Place of death | Cologne |