Eduard Dobbert
Eduard Dobbert ( Russian Эдуард Яковлевич Добберт ; born March 25, 1839 in Saint Petersburg , † September 30, 1899 in Gersau ) was a German art historian and university professor.
Life
Eduard Dobbert graduated from the German-speaking Petri School in Saint Petersburg and began studying history at Dorpat University in 1857 . In 1858 he went to Jena with his childhood friend and later brother-in-law Alexander Brückner . His academic teachers here included Johann Gustav Droysen and Kuno Fischer . He then moved to Berlin , where he was one of Karl Werder's students . In 1860 he moved to Heidelberg to Ludwig Häusser , under whom he received his doctorate in 1861 with a dissertation on the essence and the business circle of Missi Dominici .
After completing his studies, he returned to St. Petersburg and worked as a teacher in German schools. Here he also founded and directed the German-language St. Petersburg weekly . He went back to Germany to study art history , where he concentrated in particular on classical archeology with Heinrich Brunn at the University of Munich . He wrote his first work on art history in 1869.
At the beginning of 1873, after a study trip to Italy, he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. Immediately afterwards, in the spring of the same year, he was appointed as the successor to Friedrich Eggers as a teacher of art history at the Royal Academy of the Arts and the Building and Trade Academy , which later became the Technical University , in Berlin and appointed professor in 1875. In 1880 he was appointed to the Senate of the Royal Academy of Arts and charged with managing the Academy's library. From 1885 to 1886 he was rector of the technical university.
In his work he dealt with the research and methodological treatment of early medieval art and was considered a specialist in medieval Italian and Byzantine art .
Works
- About the nature and business of the Missi dominici . (Jur. Diss) Heidelberg, 1861
- The monumental representation of the Reformation by Rietschel and Kaulbach . Berlin, 1869. In: Collection of generally understandable scientific lectures; Ser. 4, h. 74
- About Nicolo Pisano's style and its origins . Munich, Ackermann, 1873
- Art history as a science and subject: speech on the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor and King in the auditorium of the Royal Technical University of Berlin on March 21, 1886 / given by Eduard Dobbert . Berlin, 1886
- Chronicle of the Royal Technical University of Berlin 1799–1899 . (Co-author Alfred G. Meyer) Berlin, 1899
- Speeches and essays of art history . After his death, ed. Berlin, 1900
literature
- Zekeli: Eduard Dobbert †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 19, No. 81 (October 14, 1899), pp. 491–492.
- Alfred Gotthold Meyer: Dobbert, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 733-735.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Dobbert in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dobbert, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1899 |
| Place of death | Gersau |