Emil Braun

Braun portrayed by an unknown artist, around 1840/45; including Braun's signature

Braun's grave on the Cimitero acattolico in Rome.

August Emil Braun (born April 19, 1809 in Gotha , † September 12, 1856 in Rome ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Braun, son of a ducal forest master, studied archeology and philosophy in Göttingen after attending the Ernestinum Gymnasium in Gotha , then enjoyed practical training as an archaeologist in Göttingen, Munich and Dresden in 1832 and went to Berlin in 1833 , where he met Eduard Gerhard in Rome followed. There he was employed in the same year at the Institute for Archaeological Correspondence, first as a librarian and soon afterwards as a secretary . In 1834 Braun took over the editing of the Bulletino , in 1837 that of the annali of this institute.

Braun later set up a galvanoplastic workshop in the institute . He made a large number of casts of important works of art for the Glass Palace in Sydenham .

Fonts (selection)

• Il giudiziodi Paride . Paris 1838
• The art performances of the winged Dionysius . Munich 1839
• Day and Hercules and Minerva's holy wedding . Munich 1839
• Ancient marble works . Leipzig 1843
• The bowl of the Kodros . Berlin 1843
• Two decades of ancient marble works . 1843
• Twelve bas-reliefs of Greek invention from Palazzo Spada, the Capitoline Museum and Villa Albani, ed. by the Institute for Archaeological Correspondence, Rome 1845.
• The Ficoronic Cyst . Leipzig 1850
• Greek doctrine of gods . 2 vols. Gotha 1850–1854
• The preschool of art mythology . Gotha 1854
• The ruins and museums of Rome . Braunschweig 1853. (The best guide for visitors to Rome at the time.)

literature

• Ludwig von Urlichs :  Braun, Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 264 f.
• Hans-Georg Kolbe: Emil Braun . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (eds.): Archaeologists portraits: portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language , Mainz 1988. ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 31–32
• Konrad Schauenburg:  Braun, Emil August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 548 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Helga Schmidt, Paul Gerhard Schmidt : Emil Braun, "A man of the noblest gift of heart and mind". Archaeologist, art agent, manufacturer and homeopathic doctor , ed. from the Lindenau Museum, Altenburg 2010. - 97 pages; ISBN 978-3-86104-073-6

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Braun  - Sources and full texts

• Information about the tomb