Carl Watzinger

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Carl Watzinger (born June 9, 1877 in Darmstadt , † December 8, 1948 in Tübingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1895, Carl Watzinger first studied Classical Philology in Heidelberg (SS 1895), Berlin (WS 1895/96) and from SS 1896 to SS 1899 in Bonn , where he turned to classical archeology . He received his doctorate on January 28, 1899 in Bonn under Georg Loeschcke with the dissertation Studies on Lower Italian Vase Painting ; on July 29, 1899, he passed the higher examination for teaching Latin, Greek and history. In 1899/1900 and 1901/1902 Watzinger received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute ; he traveled through Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. In 1900/01 he worked as a temporary worker at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens and participated in the processing of excavations in Athens, Magnesia and Pergamon.

From 1902 he worked in the sculpture department of the Berlin museums . Since January 1904 private lecturer at the University of Berlin, he received a call to Rostock in autumn 1905 and remained there until 1909 as an associate professor. Together with Heinrich Kohl , Watzinger traveled to Galilee in 1905 and 1907 on behalf of the German Orient Society to research the synagogues there. In 1908 and 1909 he took part in the first excavations in Jericho , which his Rostock colleague, the Old Testament scholar Ernst Sellin , led.

In 1909 Carl Watzinger went to Giessen as a full professor ; In 1916 he was appointed to the University of Tübingen . Since he belonged to the German-Turkish Monument Protection Command in the Asia Corps headed by Theodor Wiegand during the First World War , he was only able to take up his professorship in Tübingen in the winter semester of 1918/19, which he held until his retirement in March 1947. He continued to represent the chair until the summer semester of 1948, when his successor Bernhard Schweitzer arrived. Among his students are the prehistorians Gerhard Bersu and Wilhelm Unverzagt as well as the classical archaeologists Hans Klumbach and Karl Kübler .

From 1911 until his retirement, Carl Watzinger was a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute, first for Hesse, then for Württemberg, also a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and honorary member of the Greek Archaeological Society in Athens.

Publications (all monographs)

  • De vasculis pictis Tarentinis. Capita selecta. = Studies on Lower Italian vase painting. Otto, Darmstadt 1899 (excerpt from: Bonn, University, dissertation, 1899; digitized version ).
  • The relief of the Archelaos of Priene (= program for the Winckelmann Festival of the Archaeological Society of Berlin . 63). Reimer, Berlin 1903.
  • Greek wooden sarcophagi from the time of Alexander the Great (= excavations of the German Orient Society in Abusir 1902–1904. 3 = Scientific publications of the German Orient Society. 6, ISSN  0342-4464 ). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1905.
  • as editor with Gangolf von Kieseritzky : Greek grave reliefs from southern Russia. Reimer, Berlin 1909.
  • with Ernst Sellin : Jericho. The results of the excavations (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. 22). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913.
  • with Heinrich Kohl : Ancient Synagogues in Galilaea (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. 29). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1916.
  • with Walter Bachmann and Theodor Wiegand : Petra (= scientific publications of the German-Turkish monument protection command. H. 3, ZDB -ID 546508-4 ). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1921.
  • with Karl Wulzinger : Damascus. The ancient city (= scientific publications of the German-Turkish monument protection command. H. 4). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1921.
  • with Karl Wulzinger: Damascus. The Islamic City (= scientific publications of the German-Turkish Monument Protection Command. H. 5). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1924.
  • Greek vases in Tübingen (= Tübingen research on archeology and art history. Vol. 2, ISSN  0175-9183 ). Gryphius-Verlag, Reutlingen 1924.
  • Monuments of Palestine. 2 volumes. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1933-1935;
    • Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the Israelite royal era. 1933;
    • Volume 2: From the rule of the Assyrians to the Arab conquest. 1935.
  • Theodor Wiegand. A German archaeologist 1864–1936. CH Beck, Munich 1944.

literature

  • Margarete Bieber : Necrology. Carl Watzinger. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 54, No. 2, 1950, pp. 133-134, JSTOR 500205 .
  • Karl Otto Watzinger : Carl Watzinger (1877-1948). Professor of Archeology at the University of Tübingen. A picture of life from documents and posthumous letters. In: Baussteine ​​zur Tübinger Universitätsgeschichte 4 (1989), pp. 111–126.
  • Klaus Stefan Freyberger : Carl Watzinger. A pioneer of archaeological research in the Eastern Mediterranean . In: Philipp Baas u. a. (Ed.): Classical Archeology in Transition. For the 150th anniversary of the Tübingen Institute (= Tübingen Archaeological Research. Special Writings Volume 1). Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2017, ISBN 978-3-86757-021-3 , pp. 125-141.
  • Richard Posamentir : Carl Watzinger in Tübingen . In: Philipp Baas u. a. (Ed.): Classical Archeology in Transition. For the 150th anniversary of the Tübingen Institute (= Tübingen Archaeological Research. Special Writings Volume 1)., Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2017, ISBN 978-3-86757-021-3 , pp. 107-124.

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personal data
SURNAME Watzinger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1948
Place of death Tübingen