August Frickenhaus
August Frickenhaus (born November 10, 1882 in Elberfeld , † May 18, 1925 in Mendrisio ) was a German classical archaeologist . He worked as a professor at the Universities of Strasbourg (1913-1918) and Kiel (1920-1925).
Life
Frickenhaus came from an educated family and graduated from high school in Elberfeld . He then studied ancient history, classical archeology and philology for four years in Bonn , Basel and Berlin with Franz Bücheler , Georg Loeschcke , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Eduard Meyer . In 1905 he received his doctorate from Loeschcke with a dissertation on the walls of Athens . With the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute from 1906 to 1908 , he went on a study trip to Greece, where he took part in the excavations in Tiryns with Walter Müller . In 1907 excavations followed in Miletus under Theodor Wiegand . In the next few years he dealt with the layout of ancient cities and landscapes, such as the Italian Aretium and the Greek Argolis .
In 1911 Frickenhaus returned to Germany and, after an interlude in Elberfeld, went to Berlin as a private lecturer . In 1913 he followed a call to the University of Strasbourg as the successor to the archaeologist Franz Winter . There he conducted intensive research on Greek ceramics and also began (with the onset of illness) studies on ancient theater, which he continued in 1920 as the successor to Bruno Sauer as professor and at the same time director of the collection of antiquities in Kiel , where he went after Alsace-Lorraine ceded and closed of the German University in Strasbourg.
Frickenhaus died after a long and serious illness on the return journey from Greece in the Ticino town of Mendrisio at the age of 42.
From 1915 Frickenhaus was married to Katharina Dehio (1885–1974), a daughter of the art historian Georg Dehio .
Fonts (selection)
- Athens walls in the 4th century BC Chr. Bonn 1905 (dissertation)
- Lena vases . Berlin 1912 ( program for the Winckelmann Festival of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 72)
- The Hera of Tiryns . In: Tiryns. The results of the institute's excavations . Volume 1, Athens 1912, pp. 1–126
- The ancient Greek stage . Strasbourg 1917
literature
- Georg Karo : August Frickenhaus † . In: Gnomon . Volume 1 (1925), pp. 181-184.
- Ludolf Malten : August Frickenhaus . In: Annual report on the progress of classical antiquity . Volume 210 (1926), Nekrologe, pp. 1-29
- Eberhard Thomas: August Frickenhaus 1882–1925. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 216-217.
Web links
- Literature by August Frickenhaus in the catalog of the German National Library
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer (1842-1894) | Arthur Milchhoefer (1895–1903) | Ferdinand Noack (1904–1907) | Bruno Sauer (1909–1919) | August Frickenhaus (1920–1925) | Eduard Schmidt (1925–1946) | Roland Hampe (1946–1947) | Wilhelm Kraiker (1948–1968) | Konrad Schauenburg (1968–1990) | Bernhard Schmaltz (1990–2006) | Frank Rumscheid (2007-2010) | Annette Haug (since 2012)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frickenhaus, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frickenhaus, August Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1925 |
| Place of death | Mendrisio |