Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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The Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , formerly the Archaeological Museum Robertinum for a time , houses the archaeological collections of the University of Halle in Halle (Saale) . It is located in the building erected between 1889 and 1891 on Universitätsplatz ; this was given the honorary name Robertinum in 1922 in memory of Carl Robert .

In 1841 the United Friedrichs University of Halle-Wittenberg, founded in 1817, decided to set up an archaeological university collection. However, it was only the newly appointed archaeologist Ludwig Ross who was able to open the small museum as the first public art collection in Halle in 1849. The efforts of his successors to set up their own museum building did not lead to success until 1891. Carl Robert was granted the privilege of transferring the collections of ancient originals and casts of sculptures to their specially constructed museum building on Universitätsplatz and opening it with a ceremony on December 9, 1891. The Archaeological Museum of Martin Luther University on Universitätsplatz celebrated its 125th anniversary on December 9, 2016.

The Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

background

The museum is the only one in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt that exclusively shows ancient art and culture from the Mediterranean area and brings together objects from the Orient, Egypt, Greece, Etruscan, Roman and Near Eastern. In addition to the collections of ancient testimonies, the museum's holdings include collections of over 800 plaster casts of ancient sculptures, dactyliotheques, galvanoplastic replicas and watercolors of Pompeian wall paintings.

The origins of the Archaeological Museum lie in the coin collection of Professor Johann Heinrich Schulze , which passed into the possession of the university after his death. The Schulz coin collection is of immense importance for the development of numismatics as a university discipline in connection with the German Enlightenment. The lectures of the philologist and physician Schulze on the Greek and Roman antiquities according to ancient coins, founded the antiquity research at the University of Halle and in research it is assumed that Johann Joachim Winckelmann , who studied Protestant theology in Halle between 1738 and 1740, also lectures from Schulze visited, in which antique coins from his collection were treated.

With the establishment of the chair for Classical Archeology at the university in 1843, the continuous development of a collection of antiquities began under Ludwig Ross. The university museum served primarily as a teaching collection for the training of students and at the same time it was public from the start. In Carl Robert, who worked in Halle from 1890 to 1922, the museum found a successful director who, with the help of generous sponsors, was able to increase the collection considerably, so that its own museum building was erected and inaugurated in 1891. As a result of Robert's archaeological interests, a research museum was established here, which in a few decades succeeded in building up the extensive collection through acquisitions and donations, from which, however, little has been scientifically processed to this day. For personal and financial reasons, this can currently hardly be changed on our own.

In addition to a few ancient oriental tablets and Egyptian papyri , ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman sculptures, the museum mainly houses a large coin collection and numerous vases, including works by the Achilles Painter and the Niobid Painter . The most famous exhibit in the collection is a Panathenaic price amphora from the period between 562 and 558 BC. BC, probably the oldest or second oldest known vessel of this type.

When Andreas E. Furtwängler took the chair for Classical Archeology in 1994 , Manfred Oppermann was appointed director of the Archaeological Museum in the same year. After he retired, Stefan Lehmann succeeded him as director of the museum until his retirement in 2018. Stephan Faust has been director of the museum since 2019 .

Since 2008, Furtwängler and Lehmann have published the museum series Catalogs and Writings of the Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University . With annual studio exhibitions and participation in external exhibitions as well as current research, the Archaeological Museum is clearly visible to the public and participates in various interdisciplinary research and exhibition projects. Here there are important impulses for the creation of exciting exhibitions, for example in cooperation with the art museum Moritzburg of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for the exhibitions “Oskar Kokoschkas Antike. A European Vision of Modernism ”(2010) and“ Original to ... Forgeries between Fascination and Fraud ”(2014) or in connection with the Weimar Goethe Museum “ Goethe's very dearest Klytia - metamorphoses of a woman's bust ”(2016).

On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the inauguration of the newly built museum on Universitätsplatz on December 9, 2016, the heirs of Otto Kern were able to acquire a typical scholarly collection of antique objects from his possession with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation . Kern had been professor of classical philology at the university since 1907 and its rector in 1915/16 (see Lehmann 2017).

literature

  • Carl Robert , speech at the opening of the Archaeological Museum of the Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg on December 9, 1891 (Halle aS 1892).
  • Manfred Oppermann , Angelika Vahlen: Archaeological Museum Robertinum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Martin Luther University, Halle 1975.
  • Joachim Ebert u. a. (Ed.): 100 Years of the Archaeological Museum in Halle 1891–1991. On the history of the Robertinum, its collections and scientific disciplines , Martin Luther University, Halle 1991, ISBN 3-86010-292-3 .
  • Andreas E. Furtwängler , Stephan Lehmann (ed.): Catalogs and writings of the Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University , Halle an der Saale 2008ff. Published so far:
    • Volume 1: Correspondence. Jacob Zöllner in the Archaeological Museum . Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-937517-99-5 .
    • Volume 2: Stephan Lehmann: Alexander the Great - once in Stendal. Original - copy - forgery? . Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-29-9 .
    • Volume 3: Pascal Weitmann : Picasso's ceramics and antiquity . Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-941171-44-2 .
    • Volume 4: Art in miniature. Antique gems from private ownership . Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-941171-77-0 .
    • Volume 5: Stephan Lehmann: Yesterday. Today! Tomorrow? The Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University in Halle in search of its place between tradition and modernity . Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-941171-83-1 .
    • Volume 6: Stephan Lehmann: Goethe's very dearest Klytia - metamorphoses of a woman's bust. Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-95741-046-7 .
  • Stephan Lehmann, Katja Schneider (ed.): Oskar Kokoschkas Antike. A European vision of modernity. Catalog book of the Moritzburg Halle Foundation. Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2581-8 .
  • Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert , Stephan Lehmann (ed.): Researcher - Pastor - Collector. The Egyptian Antiquities of Dr. Julius Kurth from the holdings of the Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University in Halle. Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-584-0 .
  • Henryk Löhr: The University's Archaeological Museum. In: Stephan Lehmann (Ed.): Academic Collections and Museums of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-86829-597-9 , pp. 38–48.
  • Stephan Lehmann, additions, falsifications and forgeries of ancient works of art. In: Original to ... forgeries between fascination and fraud. Exhibition cat. Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) 2014, ISBN 978-3-86105-084-1 , pp. 34–47.
  • Stephan Lehmann, Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (eds.): Aegyptiaca and papyri from the Julius Kurth collection (= Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , inventory catalog volume 1). Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-134-2 .
  • Stephan Lehman :, Classical antiquity in the tradition of the European Enlightenment: The Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University in Halle , in: Antike Welt Heft 2, 2017, pp. 86–89.
  • Stephan Lehmann, Michael Ruprecht (ed.): The academic collections and museums of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Dresden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95498-306-3 .

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