Eduard Schmidt (archaeologist)

Eduard Schmidt (born October 20, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 15, 1963 in Krailling ) was a German classical archaeologist .

As one of the last students of Adolf Furtwängler , Schmidt received his doctorate in the summer semester of 1907 with The Knee Run and the Representation of Running and Flying in Older Greek Art . In 1909 his dissertation dedicated to Furtwängler appeared in the Munich Archaeological Studies . In 1921 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. In 1925 he became a professor and chair holder of classical archeology at the University of Kiel . Here, as director of the Kiel Collection of Antiquities, he transformed it into a strictly scientific collection. After his retirement in 1946, he moved back to Munich and worked in his apartment in Krailling on his last major work on the gables of Aigina .

Fonts (selection)

• The knee-run and the depiction of running and flying in older Greek art . Dissertation, 1907.
• Roman portraits of the end of the republic . de Gruyter, Berlin, 1944.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lila Marankou, Evangelia-Lila I. Marangou: Laconic ivory and bone carvings . Wasmuth, 1969
2. ↑ Erich Hofmann, Erich Döhring, 1965, p. 160.

literature

• Hans Möbius : Eduard Schmidt. In: Gnomon 35, 1963, pp. 525-527.
• Erich Hofmann, Erich Döhring: History of the Christian Albrechts University Kiel, 1665-1965 . K. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1965
• Hans B. Jessen : Eduard Schmidt. Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering : Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 198-199.