Antonio García y Bellido
Antonio García y Bellido (born February 10, 1902 in Villanueva de los Infantes , Ciudad Real province , † September 26, 1972 in Madrid ) was a Spanish classical archaeologist .
Antonio García y Bellido studied at the University of Madrid since 1923 , his teachers included José Ramón Mélida , Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez , Hugo Obermaier and Elías Tormo . In 1927 he became an assistant at the University of Madrid, where he received his doctorate in 1929 with Tormo with a dissertation on the family of the Churrigueras . On December 15, 1931, he was appointed to the chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Madrid. He finished his studies with several stays in Germany, especially Gerhart Rodenwaldt became an important teacher at Berlin University . His position was not affected by the Spanish Civil War , he was considered a very patriotic person. From 1951 until his retirement in 1972 García y Bellido was also director of the Instituto Español de Arqueología "Rodrigo Caro" del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas .
García y Bellido was an immensely active excavator and explorer who dealt with almost all areas and times of archeology and history of the Iberian Peninsula . His most important excavations included the Roman city of Iuliobriga (today Julióbriga near Reinosa ), the Castro de Coaña , the camp of the Legio VII Gemina in León and Empúries . In addition, he also dealt with the Greco-Roman culture in Greece and Italy. In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote several important archaeological overviews, as well as several popular science books. He founded the journals Archivo Español de Arqueología and Hispania antiqua epigraphica and was a driving force behind the Bibliotheca Archeologica . He also founded the Corpus de Mosaicos de España and was responsible for the Spanish part of the Corpus signorum Imperii Romani for several years . His students included Augusto Fernández de Avilés , Concepción Fernández-Chicarro , Antonio Blanco Freijeiro and José María Blázques .
In 1934 García y Bellido became a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and in 1940 of the Archaeological Society of Berlin . In 1945 he was accepted into the Real Academia de la Historia , and a year later he became a full member of the Hispanic Society of America .
Fonts (selection)
- España y los españoles hace 2,000 años, según la Geografía de Strábon. 1945
- Hispania Graeca. 1948
- Arte romano. 1955
- Las religions orientales en la España romana. 1967
- Veinticinco estampas de la España Antigua. 1967
literature
- Margarita Díaz-Andreu et al. (Ed.): Diccionario histórico de la Arqueologia en España. Marcial Pons Historia, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-96467-45-3 , pp. 292-294.
- Margarita Díaz-Andreu: García y Bellido, Antonio. 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. 442 f.
Footnotes
- ^ Antonio Blanco Freijeiro: García y Bellido, Fundador del Instituto Español de Arqueología . In: Luis Pericot García (ed.): Homenaje a Antonio Garcia y Bellido (= Cuadernos de la Fundación Pastor, Vol. 20). Madrid 1975, ISBN 84-400-8828-0 , pp. 23-32.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | García y Bellido, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villanueva de los Infantes , Province of Ciudad Real |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1972 |
| Place of death | Madrid |