Diedrich Fimmen
Diedrich Fimmen (born March 21, 1886 in Neuende Wohnplatz Schaar ; † December 24, 1916 near Bucharest ) was an important classical archaeologist .
After attending the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Wilhelmshaven up to the Abitur on March 15, 1905, Fimmen studied classical philology, history and archeology at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Freiburg . He received his doctorate with Hermann Thiersch and Ernst Fabricius on February 27, 1909 with the work Time and Duration of the Cretan-Mycenaean Culture . He then studied classical archeology with Georg Loeschcke in Bonn and in the spring of 1910 also passed the state examination for secondary school service. 1910-11 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. In 1911/12 he did his military service in Strasbourg . From October 1912 until the outbreak of World War I he was an assistant at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute , of which he was elected in 1915 as a corresponding member. He fell in World War I while advancing on Bucharest. His most important work was the posthumously published text The Cretan-Mycenaean Culture , which was published in two editions (Berlin / Leipzig: Teubner 1921. ²1924).
literature
- Georg Karo : For guidance , in: Diedrich Fimmen: The Cretan-Mycenaean Culture , Leipzig - Berlin 1921, pp. III-IV.
- Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 332.
Web links
- Literature by and about Diedrich Fimmen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fimmen, Diedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crowd |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1916 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |