Arnold Tschira
Arnold Tschira (born October 17, 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 9, 1969 in Karlsruhe ) was a German historical building researcher .
life and work
From 1929 to 1933 he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Tschira was from 1933 to September 1, 1938 a member of the SS . From 1935 to 1938 he was Karl Wulzinger's assistant at the Institute for Art and Building History at the TH Karlsruhe. In 1937 he received his doctorate, also in Karlsruhe, on the subject of orangery and glass house . In 1939 he moved to the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome and, together with Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann and Michael Stettler, founded the research project Late Antique Central Buildings in Rome and Latium , which was continued by Jürgen J. Rasch after Tschira's death .
After serving in the war and as a prisoner of war until 1947, he was appointed to the chair of art and building history at the TH Karlsruhe in 1950 as the successor to the late Karl Wulzinger. Tschira transformed the institute into an institute for building history in 1955. In 1958 Klaus Lankheit took over the newly created chair for art history, the establishment of which went back to the initiative of Tschiras.
He was able to continue the investigations at the Athens Parthenon after an interruption due to the war, but without completing them during his lifetime, in Pompeii he was occupied with the investigation of the Casa del Fauno . From 1964 until his death, Tschira undertook the necessary restoration of the Schwarzach Abbey Church , which Josef Durm had redesigned in line with historicism as part of rescue measures for the existing building. His essay on the so-called Tulla Plan is significant for the history of Karlsruhe's urban planning.
literature
- Karlfriedrich Ohr: Tschira, Arnold Wilhelm . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien 2, 459–462 ( http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/105974668/Tschira+Arnold+Wilhelm Biography on www .leo-bw.de)
- Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (ed.): Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . Mainz 1988. ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 309-310.
- Johann Josef Böker and Karlfriedrich Ohr (eds.): The building researcher Arnold Tschira (1910–1969). Commemorative writing of his students for his 100th birthday . ( Materials on building research and building history / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Art and Building History, Department of Building History 23). KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2017. ISBN 978-3-7315-0656-0 . ( Review of the book in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten ) Link to the publisher: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000068771
Fonts
- Orangeries and Greenhouses: Their Historical Development in Germany ( Art History Studies , 24). German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1939.
Web links
- Literature by and about Arnold Tschira in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arnold Tschira. In: arch INFORM .
- bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Casa del Fauno in Pompeii, based on preliminary work by Rene von Schöfer and Arnold Tschira . by Adolf Hoffmann. Karlsruhe, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1985
- ^ Arnold Tschira: The former Benedictine Abbey Schwarzach . Stuttgart 1977.
- ↑ Arnold Tschira: The so-called Tulla plan to enlarge the city of Karlsruhe. In: Works and Ways. Festschrift for Eberhard Knittel on his 60th birthday . Braun, Karlsruhe 1959, pp. 127-145.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tschira, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building researcher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1969 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |