Charles Waldstein

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Charles Waldstein

Charles Waldstein later Sir Charles Walston (born March 30, 1856 in New York , † March 21, 1927 in Naples ) was an English - American classical archaeologist .

Life

Waldstein came from a Jewish family in New York. He studied 1871–1873 archeology at Columbia University in New York and 1873–75 at Heidelberg University , where he received his doctorate in 1875. In 1876 he briefly studied law at the University of Leipzig , but then went to London. 1878–79 he made research trips to Italy and Greece. In 1880 Waldstein was first lecturer ( lecturer ) for classical archeology at the University of Cambridge and two years later reader at the same university. From 1883 to 1889 he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge . In 1883 he became a Fellow of King's College in London. He was also a personal acquaintance and correspondent of Karl Marx . In 1889 he came to Athens and became director of the American School of Classical Studies . He held this position until 1893, later becoming a professor at the same school. In 1895 Waldstein returned to England and became Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University Slade , a chair he held until 1901.

During his time in Greece he carried out excavations in Plataiai , Eretria and the Heraion of Argos . He later founded an international committee for the excavations of Herculaneum .

In 1912 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . In 1918 he changed his name to Charles Walston. His son was the politician Henry Walston, Baron Walston .

Olympic Games 1896

Waldstein took part in the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens as a marksman . He took part in the rifle competition. Its result and its place are unknown. He was the oldest participant in the entire field of athletes at these Olympic Games.

Publications

  • Balance of Emotion and Intellect (1878)
  • Essays on the Art of Phidias . New York 1885. Digitized
  • The Jewish Question and the Mission of the Jews - London 1889. Digitized
  • The Work of John Ruskin . In: Karper's New Monthly Magazine. February 1899. Digitized
  • The Study of Art in Universities (1895)
  • The Expansion of Western Ideals and the World's Peace (1899)
  • The Argive Heraeum (1902)
  • Art in the Nineteenth Century (1903)
  • with Leonard Shoobridge: Herculaneum. Past, Present and Future (1908) ( full text )

literature

  • Anja Becker, Tobias Brinkmann: Transatlantic Educational Migration. American-Jewish students at the University of Leipzig from 1872 to 1914. In: Stephan Wendehorst (Hrsg.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2006, pp. 88-80
  • Nigel Spivey: Walston, Sir Charles (1856-1927). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 57: Walliers-Welles. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861407-1 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2008
  • Joseph Jacobs, Frederick T. Haneman:  WALDSTEIN, CHARLES. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 12, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, pp.  458-459 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Marx to Charles Waldstein January 26, 1880 ( Marx Engels Collected Works . Volume 46, p. 5); Charles Waldstein to Karl Marx after December 5, 1881 ( IISG Marx Engels estate D 4438).
personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walston, Charles; Seymour, Gordon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English-American classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1927
Place of death Naples