Christoph W. Clairmont

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Johann Christoph Walter Clairmont (born February 13, 1924 in Zurich ; † May 4, 2004 in Ernen , Switzerland) was a classical archaeologist of Swiss origin. His main work deals with the Attic grave stelae from the classical period in eight volumes.

biography

Christoph Walter Clairmont, son of the surgeon Paul Clairmont , attended schools in Switzerland and Great Britain . He studied archeology at the Universities of Zurich, Basel and Oxford and received his doctorate in 1951 under Arnold von Salis with the dissertation The Paris Judgment in Ancient Art . From 1953 to 1959 he was an assistant professor at Yale University . In 1967 he became a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick and stayed there for nearly 20 years until his retirement in 1985.

In 1993 he published his main work Classical Attic Tombstones ( CAT ) in eight volumes. The work was presented as a supplement to the work Die Attische Grabreliefs by Alexander Conze , which was published in four volumes between 1893 and 1922.

From 1997 to 1998 Christoph W. Clairmont presented extensive documents from his family history to the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle in New York. This resulted in the two-volume work The Clairmont family letters, 1839–1880 , which was published in 2017.

Christoph W. Clairmont was married to the archaeologist Victorine von Gonzenbach (1921-2016) from 1959 until his death in 2004 . The common grave is in Ernen. Her father was the Swiss physician Wilhelm von Gonzenbach (1880–1955).

Publications (selection)

  • The Portraits of Antinous. A contribution to the portrait sculpture under Emperor Hadrian (= Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 6). Swiss Institute, Rome 1966.
  • Gravestone and epigram. Greek memorials from the archaic and classical period . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1970.
  • Excavations at Salona, ​​Yugoslavia (1969–1972) conducted for the Department of Classics, Douglass College, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey . In collaboration with Susan Handler Auth and Victorine von Gonzenbach. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, NJ 1975, ISBN 0-8155-5040-5 .
  • Patrios Nomos. Public burial in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC: the archaeological, epigraphic-literary and historical evidence . 2 volumes, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-86054-205-X .
  • Classical Attic Tombstones , 9 volumes. Akanthus, Kilchberg 1993, Supplementary Volume, Akanthus, Kilchberg 1995.
  • Fauvel. The first archaeologist in Athens and his philhellenic correspondents . Kilchberg, Akanthus 2007, ISBN 978-3-905083-25-5 .

literature

  • Geneviève Hoffmann, Annie Sartre-Fauriat (eds.): Les pierres de l'offrande. Autour de l'oeuvre de Christoph W. Clairmont. Actes du colloque qui s'est tenu du 9 au 11 December 1998 à l'Université de Clermont-Ferrand. 2 volumes, Akanthus, Kilchberg / Zurich 2001 and 2003, ISBN 3-905083-15-9 , ISBN 3-905083-19-1 .
  • Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter : Christoph Clairmont, 1924–2004 . In: Fauvel. The first archaeologist in Athens and his philhellenic correspondents . Akanthus, Kilchberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-905083-25-5 .

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Individual notes

  1. ↑ Sharon L. Joffe: The Clairmont family letters, 1839-1880 . London 2017, p. Xix.
  2. ^ University of Zurich : Matriculation Edition Gonzenbach, (Viktor) Wilhelm (= Willy) (von)
  3. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung of April 27, 2016: Obituary notice Victorine Clairmont-von Gonzenbach (Victorine von Gonzenbach-Clairmont)
  4. ^ Wilhelm von Gonzenbach. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Clairmont, Christoph W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clairmont, Johann Christoph Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2004
Place of death Ernen , Switzerland