Felix Eckstein (archaeologist)

Felix Eckstein (born January 25, 1925 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died January 13, 1988 in Freiburg) was a German classical archaeologist .

Felix Eckstein was the son of the grammar school teacher and classical philologist Franz Eckstein. In the spring of 1943 he passed his Abitur in Freiburg and then had to do labor and military service. From the winter semester 1945/46 to 1950 he studied classical archeology, ancient history and Greek at the universities of Freiburg , Marburg and Munich . In Freiburg, he was in 1950 when Walter Herwig Schuchardt with work studies on the "still-life" images mentioned in the Campanian mural doctorate . In 1951/52 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , and from 1954 to 1957 he worked for Emil Kunze on the German excavation in Olympia . Since 1957 he was a scientific assistant at the University of Freiburg, where in 1959 his habilitation with the writing Anathemata. Studies of the strict style votive offerings in the sanctuary of Olympia took place. In 1960 he was appointed university lecturer. In Freiburg, Eckstein was editor of the delivery work Antike Plastik published by Schuchhardt from 1962 , from 1972 to 1982 he was its editor himself.

In 1969 he became Professor of Classical Archeology in Freiburg. In 1970/71 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, and from 1971 to 1983 Vice Rector for Study and Examination Matters at the University.

His annotated edition of Pausanias was published in 1986 , the third and final volume was completed in 1989 by his student Peter Cornelius Bol .

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the still lifes from Pompeii and Herculaneum . Mann brothers, Berlin 1957.
• Hand drawings by Carl Haller von Hallerstein and Friedrich Adler in the possession of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg i. Br. In: Contributions to Freiburg's science and university history. Albert, Freiburg i. Br. 1960, pp. 221-236.
• Anathematics. Studies of the strict style votive offerings in the sanctuary of Olympia . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1969.
• Craft . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974 (= Archaeologia Homerica , delivery L).
• Pausanias: Traveling in Greece. Complete edition in three volumes based on the commented translation by Ernst Meyer . Edited by Felix Eckstein. Artemis, Zurich and Munich 1986–1989 (= The Library of the Old World. Greek Series ).

literature

• Volker Michael Strocka : Felix Eckstein in memory. In: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 27, 1988, 99, pp. 14-15.

Web links

• Volker Michael Strocka: Hundred years of archaeological institute at the University of Freiburg
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