Christian Blinkenberg

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Christian Sørensen Blinkenberg (born February 12, 1863 in Ribe ; died January 25, 1948 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish classical archaeologist .

Christian Blinkenberg, son of the master lathe operator Andreas Peter Blinkenberg (1837–1923) and his wife Christine Elisabeth Weis (1840–1906), studied classical philology and Danish at the University of Copenhagen from 1880 and passed his exams for cand. Mag. for Latin , Greek and Danish. He then took up the study of Classical Archeology, but published the book "Dansk Lydlære" ("Danish Phonology ") with Dines Andersen in 1888 .

After graduating as a teacher in 1888, he was employed by the then independent collection of antiques in Copenhagen. With their integration, he moved to the Danish National Museum in 1892 , where he was inspector from 1897 to 1916. Study trips from 1889 to 1891 took him to Greece , Italy and Paris . The result of these trips was a Latin treatise on the cult of Asklepios , for which he received the gold medal of the University of Copenhagen. Blinkenberg received his doctorate in 1893 with the version extended to the dissertation under the title "Asklepios og hans frænder i Hieron ved Epidauros" ("Asklepios and his relatives in the sanctuary of Epidauros "). In 1899 the German Archaeological Institute elected him a corresponding member; During the Second World War , Blinkenberg resigned from membership in 1942.

In the years from 1902 to 1905 and 1914, together with Karl Frederik Kinch, he led the excavations of the Danish Carlsberg Foundation in Lindos on Rhodes and thus opened up a field of activity that took up most of his scientific work. He put the results of the excavations, in particular the find of the Lindian temple chronicle, in numerous individual investigations entitled “Lindiaka” and - after the death of Kinch - in two volumes of the “Lindos. Foullies et reserches, 1902-1914 ” . A third volume appeared posthumously in 1961.

From 1911 Blinkenberg was a lecturer in Classical Archeology at the University of Copenhagen, which appointed him professor in 1919. For health reasons, he left the university in 1926 and devoted himself to working up scientific questions on Lindos and Rhodes until his death, but during these years also worked on the holdings of the National Museum for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum , in the first five volumes , together with Knud Friis Johansen Blinkenberg was involved.

Nonetheless, the scientific interests of Blinkenberg, who was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences from 1913 , were widely spread and, in addition to archaeological and epigraphic studies, also included those on philological, religious-historical and folkloric issues. In 1923 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Christian Blinkenberg was married to Emma Henriette Juul (1863-1904) from 1894. He was the uncle of the Romanist Andreas Blinkenberg .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Dines Andersen: Dansk Lydskrift med hovedpunkterne af den Danske Lydlaere. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1888.
  • Asklepios and Hans Frænder i Hieron ved Epidauros. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1893.
  • Archaeological Studies. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1904.
  • Tordenvåbenet i kultus and folketro. En comparative-archaeological undersøgelse. Tillge, Copenhagen 1909 (Engl. The Thunderweapon in religion and folklore. A study in comparative archeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1911).
  • The Lindian Temple Chronicle. Marcus and Weber, Bonn 1915.
  • Miraclearn in Epidaurus. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1917.
  • Fibules grecques et orientales. Høst, Copenhagen 1926.
  • with Karl Frederik Kinch: Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 1: Les petits objets. De Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • Knidia. Contributions to the knowledge of the practical Aphrodite. Munskaard, Copenhagen 1933.
  • with Karl Frederik Kinch: Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 2: Inscriptions. De Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
  • with Knud Friis Johansen: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Denmark. Copenhague, Musée national (Collection des antiquités classiques). Fasc. 1-5. É. Champion, Paris 1924–1937.
  • with Karl Frederik Kinch, edited by Ejnar Dyggve : Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 3: Le sanctuaire d'Athana Lindia et l'architecture lindenne. De Gruyter, Berlin 1960.

literature

  • Carsten Høeg : Christian Blinkenberg February 15, 1863 - January 25, 1948: Tale holdt i Videnskabernes Selskabs Møde on April 30, 1948. Copenhagen 1948 (with Blinkenberg's bibliography, pp. 16–20).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Blinkenberg, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blinkenberg, Christian Sørensen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribe
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1948
Place of death Copenhagen