August Schörgendorfer

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August Schörgendorfer (* 1914 in Waizenkirchen , † 1976 in Ried im Innkreis ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

He studied classical archeology in Graz and was assistant to Arnold Schober . In 1939 he submitted his dissertation with the title “The ceramics of the Eastern Alps in Roman times” (reviewers: Arnold Schober and Walter Schmid ), which was published in 1942 as the 13th volume in the series of special publications of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (SoSchrÖAI) . For 1940-1941 he was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute , which he could not take due to the Second World War . He was promoted to lieutenant in 1941 and transferred to Crete with a special assignment to the art protection department . There he and Ulf Jantzen carried out a short excavation in Knossos on military orders in November 1941 . He also examined a burial mound and a Minoan village in the Mesara. For the archaeological collection of the University of Graz he put on a small collection of Minoan vessel fragments. He was wounded in October 1943 and completed his habilitation in May 1944 at the University of Graz with a thesis on "The circular graves of Minoan Crete".

Publications

  • The Roman ceramics of the Eastern Alps , special publications of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (SoSchrÖAI) 13 , Brno a. a. 1942.
  • A Middle Minoan Tholos grave near Apesokari , in Friedrich Matz (Ed.), Research on Crete 1942 , Berlin 1951, pp. 13-22.
  • The Minoan settlement of Apesokari , in Friedrich Matz (ed.), Research on Crete 1942 , Berlin 1951, pp. 23-26.

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personal data
SURNAME Schörgendorfer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Waizenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 1976
Place of death Ried im Innkreis