August Kalkmann

August Dethard Kalkmann (born March 24, 1853 in Hamburg , † February 17, 1905 in Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist .

life and work

August Kalkmann came from a Hamburg patrician family, his father was the merchant Hermann Dethard Kalkmann (1816–), his brother the merchant and art collector Ernst Kalkmann (1855–1930). He initially attended secondary school and began an apprenticeship as a businessman, but then went to the Johanneum's school of scholars in 1871 , where he graduated from high school in 1873. From 1874 he studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Bonn with Franz Bücheler , Hermann Usener and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , as well as art history with Carl Justi . He spent two semesters in Berlin and one semester in Munich. He was on 20 December 1881 in Bonn with a classical philological work on the Hippolyttragödie of Euripides doctorate , shortly after he left a work on the pictorial representations of Hippolytus myth follow. After completing his doctorate, he went to Berlin University , on October 30, 1885 , he completed his habilitation there and became a private lecturer , and on February 28, 1900, he became an associate professor . He traveled to Italy from 1887 to 1891, and to Greece in 1894.

Kalkmann dealt with ancient art mainly on the basis of written sources, for example he published monographs on Pausanias and Pliny . Many of his lectures dealt with this, and he also deals with ancient art theory, Greek sculpture and the history of Greek art. The proportion of the face in Greek art (Berlin 1893) is considered to be his main work . Here he tried to make style history measurable through measurements, which he presented in long tables.

His library went to various institutions after his death. Works on Classical Archeology came to the Berlin Seminar Library and are now in the Classical Archeology Libraries of the Free University and the Humboldt University as well as the Johanneum Library in Hamburg. Works on art history came to the library of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , here are also his collegiate manuscripts.

Publications (selection)

• De Hippolytis Evripideis quaestiones novae . Bonn 1882 ( digitized version ).
• About representations of the Hippolytos legend . In: Archäologische Zeitung 41, 1883, Sp. 37–80. 105-154 ( digitized version ).
• Pausanias of Perieget. Research into his writing and sources . Reimer, Berlin 1886 ( digitized version ).
• Tatian's news about works of art . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 42, 1887, pp. 489-524.
• The proportions of the face in Greek art (= program for the Winckelmann Festival of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 53). Reimer, Berlin 1893 ( digitized version ).
• The sources of the art history of Pliny . Weidmann, Berlin 1898 ( digitized version ).
• August Kalkmann's posthumous work , ed. by Hermann Voss. Curtius, Berlin 1910.

literature

• Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz : August Kalkmann . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1905, pp. 32–33.
• Fritz Hoeber : Kalkmann, August Dethard . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog 10, 1905, Reimer, Berlin 1907, pp. 54–57 ( digitized version ).
• Fritz Zweybrück: In memory of August Kalkmann . In: August Kalkmann's posthumous work , ed. by Hermann Voss. Curtius, Berlin 1910, pp. VIII – XIV.
• Anton Mayer : The godlike. Memory of Rudolf G. Binding . Rütten & Loenning, Potsdam 1939, pp. 31. 34-39. 47–50 (description of a lecture in 1904/05 given by August Kalkmann).
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 331.

Remarks

1. ^ Directory in August Kalkmann's posthumous work , ed. by Hermann Voss. Curtius, Berlin 1910, p. XV.
2. ↑ Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 14: Berlin , Part 1, Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10054-1 , p. 193.
3. ↑ Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 14: Berlin Part 1 . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-10054-1 , p. 158.
4. ↑ 450 years of scholarly school at the Johanneum in Hamburg . Hamburg 1979, p. 106; Handbook of historical book collections in Germany . Volume 1: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-10135-1 , p. 224.
5. ↑ Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany . Volume 1: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-10135-1 , p. 239.
6. ↑ Archäologische Anzeiger 1912, Col. 76.
7. ↑ Dr. Hermann Voss, district judge in Hamburg, nephew of August Kalkmann.

Web links

• August Kalkmann in the catalog of the scientific collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin