Ferdinand Noack

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Ferdinand Noack (born December 31, 1865 in Holzhausen , † September 21, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist .

life and work

Ferdinand Noack attended high school in Darmstadt and after graduating (Easter 1885) first went to the University of Geneva , where he deepened his knowledge of French. In the winter semester of 1885/86 he moved to Berlin University , where he studied classical philology , classical archeology and history with Ernst Curtius , Hermann Diels and Carl Robert . Noack spent the winter semester of 1887/88 at the University of Göttingen as a guest student with Hermann Sauppe and Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In the summer semester of 1888, Noack moved to a university in his Hessian homeland to complete his studies: the University of Gießen . There he passed the teaching examination in autumn 1889 and then returned to Göttingen to deepen his studies. There he wrote his dissertation on the portrayal of the Troy saga by Euripides and Polygnotos , with which he obtained a PhD in 1890 at the University of Giessen (with Adolf Philippi ). phil. received his doctorate .

Noack was recognized as both a philologist and an archaeologist through his studies. This connection of the ancient science disciplines corresponded to the ideal of his academic teachers. For the year 1891/92 Noack received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to spend longer periods in Italy and Greece. He continued his studies in Greece even after the scholarship expired and in 1893 examined Mycenaean settlements in the Kopaïs basin.

After returning from Greece, Noack worked as an assistant teacher in Darmstadt from 1894 . His goal was an academic career: He continued his archaeological studies, including in the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . In 1897 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Darmstadt for Classical Art Archeology. In 1898 he was appointed head of the excavations in Alexandria , which Ernst von Sieglin financed. However, Noack left the expedition after a year when he was appointed associate professor and head of the Archaeological Museum at the University of Jena in 1899 . From 1900 onwards, Noack systematically expanded the original collection there through new acquisitions. In 1904 he went from Jena to the University of Kiel as a full professor of classical archeology and at the same time became director of the collection of antiquities , in 1908 he changed to the chair of the University of Tübingen . Both in Kiel and in Tübingen he campaigned for the expansion of the collections and the reform of archaeological studies.

Noack's career peaked in 1916 when he was appointed full professor of archeology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. There he became a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute in 1918. In this capacity he headed the opening of the Athens Department in 1921 . In the same year he was elected first chairman of the Archaeological Society in Berlin .

By marrying Else Hartleben, he became brother-in-law of the poet Otto Erich Hartleben (1864–1905) and of the archaeologist and educator Ludwig Pallat . Their marriage resulted in two children, including the historian Ulrich Noack .

In his research work, Noack had combined archaeological and philological methods early on. In his first work he reconstructed lost ancient poems based on monumental and literary tradition. Through his trip to Italy and Greece, his research focus shifted to the history of architecture , especially the Greek (including the Mycenaean). In the last years of his life he turned increasingly to Roman building research ( Pompeii ).

Fonts

  • Iliupersis. De Euripidis et Polygnoti quae ad Troiae excidium spectant fabulis . Giessen 1890 (dissertation).
  • The Greek dictys . In: Philologus . Supplement volume 6 (1893), pp. 400-500.
  • The birth of Christ in the fine arts up to the Renaissance in connection with ivory works in the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt . Darmstadt 1894.
  • Homeric palaces. A study of the monuments and the epic . Leipzig 1903.
  • Oval house and palace in Crete. A contribution to the early history of the house . Leipzig 1908.
  • The architecture of antiquity . Berlin 1910.
  • Σκηνὴ τραγική. A study of the scenic systems on the Aeschylus Orchestra and the other tragedians . Tübingen 1915.
  • Eleusis. The historical development of the sanctuary . Berlin 1927.
  • The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Two volumes. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1927 ( digital copies ).
  • Building history studies on the outskirts of Pompeii . Berlin 1936

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Noack, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgholzhausen in front of the height
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1931
Place of death Berlin