Camillo Praschniker

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Camillo Alois Franz Praschniker (born October 13, 1884 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † October 1, 1949 ibid) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Life

After studying classical studies at the Universities of Innsbruck, Berlin and Vienna from 1902 to 1908, graduating in Innsbruck with a doctorate in 1908, traveled Praschniker to 1910 with a grant from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Mediterranean and was then assistant to Emil Reisch at of the University of Vienna . From 1912 to 1920 he was secretary of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. In 1914 Praschniker completed his habilitation in Classical Archeology in Vienna . In 1913/14 he took part in excavations in Shechem in Palestine, in 1916 he took part in a scientific expedition to areas of the Balkans (Montenegro, Albania) occupied by Austria-Hungary. From November 1917 to the summer of 1918 he stayed in Albania again to examine the archaeological sites in central Albania, especially Apollonia and Byllis , more closely. He also described the mosaic The Beauty from Durrës for the first time .

In 1922 Praschniker became an associate professor at the University of Vienna, the following year a full professor at the German University in Prague , where he was dean in 1929/1930. In 1930 he moved to the University of Jena and that same year back to Vienna, where he was initially an associate professor, and from 1934 a full professor as successor to his teacher Reisch. In 1935 he also became honorary director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute.

Praschniker has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1914, a full member since 1921 , and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1932 and a full member since 1937 . He dealt with numerous topics from the field of classical and Roman provincial archeology, such as the metopes of the Parthenon , the mausoleum of Belevi and a sculptor's workshop in Virunum . He was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

Fonts

  • with Arnold Schober : Archaeological Research in Albania and Montenegro , Vienna 1919 (Writings of the Balkan Commission, 8)
  • Muzakhia and Malakastra: archaeological investigations in central Albania . In: Austrian Archaeological Institute (Hrsg.): Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna . Supplement, No. 21-22 1922-1924 . Vienna 1920, doi : 10.11588 / diglit.33680.17 .
  • Parthenon Studies . 1929
  • with Hedwig Kenner : The Virunum Spa District , Vienna 1947
  • with M. Theuer: Das Mausoleum von Belevi , Vienna 1979 (Research in Ephesos, 6)

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Individual evidence

  1. Grave site Camillo Praschniker , Vienna, Grinzinger Friedhof, Group 13, Row 5, No. 6.