Edward Dodwell

Edward Dodwell (* 1767 in Dublin , † May 14, 1832 in Rome ) was an Irish travel writer and archaeologist .

Life

Athens bazaar (drawing)

After training at the Trinity College of Cambridge University , he traveled in 1801, 1805 and 1806 Greece . After that he lived mainly in Naples and Rome , where he married the daughter of a count, Teresa Giraud. He died in 1832 while exploring the Sabine Mountains around Rome. Since 1815 he was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

His work A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805 and 1806 is aimed at both a classically educated and a broader audience. It is based on his own drawings and a travel diary that he revised for publication. Mainly he deals with ancient Greece . But he also reports on modern Greece, trying to trace the customs of the Greeks of his time back to antiquity, without considering that Byzantine and Ottoman influences could have had an effect in the meantime . His descriptions show a clear dominance of the visual: Often, for example, the appearance of a village is described in detail without going into economic or social conditions.

Works

A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece During the Years 1801, 1805 and 1806 (London 1819), digitized (Heidelberg University Library)
- German translation 1821
Alcuni Bassirilievi della Grecia. Descritti e pubblicati in otto tavole . (Rome 1812). Digitized version (Heidelberg University Library)
Views in Greece, with thirty colored plates (1821), digitized version ( Heidelberg University Library)

Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian or Pelasgic Remains in Greece and Italy (London and Paris, with French text, 1834), digitized (Heidelberg University Library)

literature

Franziska Schmitz: Greece around 1800 as reflected in English travel reports: The examples of Thessaly, Epirus and Delphi . Licentiate thesis of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich (2000), pp. 49–50.

Web links

Commons : Edward Dodwell - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Literature by and about Edward Dodwell in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Edward Dodwell. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 15, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dodwell, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1767
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dublin
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1832
Place of death	Rome

[1] Members of the previous academies. Edward Dodwell. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 15, 2015 .