Richard Eilmann

Richard Eilmann (born May 25, 1893 in Gernrode ; † lost in February 1944 in Greece ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Richard Eilmann attended the Latin secondary school of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) from 1904 . In 1913 he began studying theology and philology at the University of Halle , but had to interrupt it in 1914–1918 to participate in the First World War . He then continued to study Classical and German Philology in Halle and then turned more and more to classical studies under Carl Robert . He was assistant to Robert's successor Georg Karo , who enabled him to take part in the excavation in Tiryns in autumn 1927 . In 1928 he started working in Halle with the dissertation Labyrinthos. A contribution to the history of an idea and an ornament is being promoted. In 1929/30 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

After that he worked on the early Greek ceramics in continuation of Werner Technau's research for the excavation of the German Archaeological Institute in Heraion of Samos . Together with Kurt Gebauer , he worked on the early Attic vases from the so-called “Aegina Fund” acquired in 1936 for the Berlin antiquities collection with a work contract . The publication appeared in 1938 as the second volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany . From autumn 1938 to January 1944 he worked for the German excavation in Olympia , here too his research area was found ceramics. At the end of January 1944 he handed over the excavation house in Olympia to the Greek antiquities administration, after which his trace is lost.

Fonts

• Labyrinthos. A contribution to the history of an idea and an ornament . DAI, Athens 1931.
• Early Greek ceramics in the Sami Heraion , in: Athenische Mitteilungen 58, 1933, pp. 47–145.
• with Kurt Gebauer: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany 2, Berlin, Antiquarium 1 . CH Beck, Munich 1938.
• Contributions in: Emil Kunze , Hans Schleif : Report on the excavations in Olympia, Volume 4: 1940 and 1941 , Berlin 1944

literature

• Emil Kunze : Report on the excavations in Olympia, Volume 5: Winter 1941/1942 and Autumn 1952 , Berlin 1956, pp. 1–2 (the volume is dedicated to Eilmann)
• Helmut Kyrieleis : Athens Department , in Contributions to the History of the German Archaeological Institute 1929 to 1979 , Mainz 1979, p. 53
• 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. 333.