Arnold Schober

Arnold Schober (born April 16, 1886 in Windisch-Landsberg , † August 15, 1959 in Graz ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

The son of an estate inspector graduated from high school in Graz in 1905. At the University of Graz he studied Classical Archeology and Modern Art History with Franz Winter and Josef Strzygowski . In 1906 he became a member of the Corps Joannea Graz . In 1909 he received his doctorate in Graz under Hans Schrader with the thesis Ancient Horse Representation .

Study trips took him to Italy, France and Germany. From 1910 to 1912 he took part in the excavations in Elis and Ephesus . In 1912 he became an assistant to Emil Reisch in Vienna . His habilitation took place with the work The Roman Gravestones of Noricum and Pannonia . He received the license to teach (Venia legendi) in 1921 for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna . In 1927 he became an associate professor. He was appointed associate professor at the University of Graz in 1935, where he succeeded Rudolf Heberdey a year later . In 1940 he was appointed full professor. In 1945 Schober was given early retirement.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Fonts

• The art of Pergamon. Vienna 1951
• The Roman times in Austria, on the building u. Art monuments depicted. Baden near Vienna 1935.
• The frieze of the Hecateion of Lagina. Baden near Vienna 1933.
• The Roman tombstones of Noricum and Pannonia. Vienna 1923.
• with Camillo Praschniker : Archaeological research in Albania and Montenegro , Vienna 1919 (Writings of the Balkan Commission, 8)

literature

• Erna Diez : Arnold Schober 1886–1959. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 232-233.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnold Schober in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists. 50, 1930, p. 137.