August Fink

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German landscape painter and art teacher see August Fink (painter) .

Karl Emanuel Wilhelm August Fink (born December 14, 1890 in Wolfenbüttel , † August 23, 1963 in Hanover ) was a German art historian . From 1934 to 1955 he was director of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig .

Life

Fink grew up in Wolfenbüttel, where he graduated from the " Big School ". From 1909 to 1915 he studied art history , mathematics, history, philosophy and classical archeology at various universities . In Berlin he was a student of Adolph Goldschmidt . He received his doctorate in 1915 with his dissertation The figural grave sculpture in Saxony from the beginnings to the second half of the thirteenth century . Until 1918 he took part in the First World War. From 1919 to 1922 he worked at the Provincial Museum in Hanover and then at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel until 1925 . From 1934 to 1937 he headed the congregation of the Confessing Church in Wolfenbüttel.

Activity in Braunschweig

From 1925 Fink worked as an assistant at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig. In 1929 he became museum inspector and in 1931 director of the museum. From 1934 to 1955 he was the museum director. Fink completed his habilitation in 1928 at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he then taught as a private lecturer and since 1950 as a professor. During the Second World War , he did military service from 1939 to 1945. His research focus was the medieval art of northern Germany. His exact inventory of the museum is still important today.

Works (selection)

• Schwarz's costume books. Berlin 1963.
• The Marienkirche, main church BMV. Wolfenbüttel 1957.
• History of the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1954.
• The clocks of Duke August d. J .. Braunschweig 1953.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 177 .
• Reinhold Wex: Fink, (Karl Emanuel Wilhelm) August. in: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 71-72 .

Web links

• Literature by and about August Fink in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The development of the Pastors' Emergency Association since Dr. Johnsen as church commissioner from June 1934 to the end of 1934 . bs.cyty.com. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
2. ↑ Overview of the organization and development of the Braunschweiger Pfarrernotbundes . bs.cyty.com. Retrieved May 17, 2011.

Remarks

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 1966 edition, Nekrolog, p. 2810; according to later information, for example Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon, Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon (see literature), in Wolfenbüttel