August Oxé

August Oxé (born July 23, 1863 in Kreuznach , † March 16, 1944 in Mehlem ) was a German provincial Roman archaeologist and high school teacher.

After attending grammar school in Kreuznach , where he passed his Abitur on March 7, 1883, he studied classical philology in Tübingen and Bonn and received his doctorate in Bonn on June 9, 1886 with the thesis Prolegomena de carmine adversus Marcionitas . On February 23, 1889, he passed the state examination for higher education. From 1891 until his retirement in 1928 he worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Krefeld . Since the 1890s he worked intensively on provincial Roman archeology. For the year 1901/1902 he received half a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1911 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

In particular, he worked on the research of Roman fine ceramics, the Terra Sigillata . His life's work is the Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum , on which he worked from 1896 to 1943 and which was only published in 1968 by Howard Comfort .

Publications

• Arretinic relief vessels from the Rhine , Frankfurt a. M. 1933
• Early Gallic relief vessels from the Rhine , Frankfurt a. M. 1934
• Corpus vasorum arretinorum. A catalog of the signatures, shapes and chronology of Italian sigillata , compiled by August Oxé. Edited by Howard Comfort, Bonn 1968

literature

• Harald von Petrikovits / Albert Steeger (ed.): Festschrift for August Oxé on his 75th birthday, July 23, 1938 , Darmstadt 1938 (with picture and list of publications)

Web links

Wikisource: August Oxé  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about August Oxé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personnel form from August Oxé in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)