Ernst Heidrich

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Ernst Friedrich Rudolph Heidrich (born July 5, 1880 in Nakel , Province of Posen , German Empire , † November 4, 1914 near Dixmuide , Flanders , Belgium ) was a German art historian .

Life

Heidrich was the son of the high school director of Nakel Rudolph Heidrich and his wife Anna, née Meyer. He graduated from high school in Nakel (high school graduation at Easter 1897) and first studied history at the University of Leipzig and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Berlin . In 1902 he passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in Prussia . He then turned to the study of art history and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1905 under Heinrich Wölfflin . In 1909 his habilitation followed at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. In 1910 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Basel and in 1912 he was promoted to full professor. During his time in Basel he became known for his lectures on the history of art history in the Renaissance and on Johann Joachim Winckelmann , Karl Schnaase and the Basel professor Jacob Burckhardt .

At the end of the summer semester of 1914, he was offered a position at the University of Strasbourg . At the beginning of the First World War he was called up and died in the First Battle of Flanders north of Ypres .

Publications

  • 1906: History of Dürer's image of the Virgin Mary (= art- historical monographs. Vol. 3). KW Hiersemann, Leipzig 1906 (Chapters I, II published as a dissertation, University of Berlin, December 9, 1905).
  • 1908 (as publisher): Albrecht Dürer's written estate: family chronicle, memorial book, diary of the Dutch trip, letters, rhymes, selection from theoretical writings. With nine drawings and three woodcuts by Dürer. Preface by Heinrich Wölfflin . J. Bard, Berlin.
  • 1909: Dürer and the Reformation. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig (habilitation thesis, University of Berlin, 1910).
  • 1909: Old German painting: 200 reproductions. Eugen Diederichs, Jena.
  • 1910; Old Dutch painting. Eugen Diederichs, Jena.
  • 1913: Flemish painting. Eugen Diederichs, Jena.
  • 1916: Old German Masters: A selection for the field from the work “Old German Painting” (= gift of love from German university students. Artistic gift 4). Eugen Diederichs, Jena.
  • 1917: Contributions to the history and method of art history. B. Schwabe, Basel.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog card of the dissertation , dissertation catalog of the University Library of Basel , accessed on September 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Heidrich, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidrich, Ernst Friedrich Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakel , Posen Province , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1914
Place of death near Dixmuide , Flanders , Belgium