Emil Reisch

Emil Reisch (born September 28, 1863 in Vienna ; † December 13, 1933 ibid) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Life

After attending school in Vienna , Ödenburg (today Sopron) and Innsbruck , where he passed his Matura in 1881, Reisch began studying classical philology and archeology at the University of Vienna that same year . His academic teachers included Karl Schenkl and Otto Benndorf . In 1885 Reisch received his doctorate with the dissertation De musicis Graecorum certaminibus capita quattuor and passed the teaching examination in the same year. After a year as a scholarship holder at the archaeological-epigraphic seminar of the University of Vienna, he undertook a trip through Greece from 1886 to 1887 and through Italy in 1888. After his return, he completed his habilitation in 1889 in both philology and archeology and was appointed to the newly established chair of classical archeology at the University of Innsbruck in 1890 as an associate professor . In 1894 he was appointed full professor.

When the Viennese archaeologist Otto Benndorf took over the management of the newly founded Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) in 1898 and resigned his chair, his student Emil Reisch was appointed to his successor. Reisch accepted and went to Vienna as a full professor of classical archeology, where he stayed until the end of his life. In the decades that followed, he followed in Benndorf's footsteps outside the university: after the death of his teacher (1907), he became vice director and, in 1910, director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, of which he had already been elected in 1899. The excavations in Elis (1910) and Aigeira (1914) began under his direction ; excavations at Ephesus were resumed (1911). After the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I , Reisch succeeded in reorganizing the OeAI and resuming excavations in many places.

Reisch's lively research activity was rewarded in 1904 with the election as a corresponding member, and in 1907 as a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He was a member of numerous state commissions and received the Order of the Iron Crown III in 1908 . Class, was appointed Hofrat in 1910 and was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order in 1916. He was also a member of the German Archaeological Institute : a corresponding one since 1888 and an ordinary one since 1894.

In addition to his work for the ÖAI, Reisch was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in the academic year 1910/1911 and rector of the university in 1916/1917. In 1933 he retired and died shortly afterwards. He was buried at the Neustift cemetery . His successor on the chair was Camillo Praschniker .

literature

• Hermann Vetters :  Reisch Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 54 f. (Direct links on p. 54 , p. 55 ).
• Manfred Kandler :  Reisch, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 383 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Emil Reisch  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Emil Reisch in the catalog of the German National Library
• History of the Vienna Institute for Classical Archeology with a portrait

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Reisch grave site , Vienna, Neustifter Friedhof, Group B, Row 5, No. 6.