Frank Brommer

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Frank Brommer's grave in the main cemetery in Mainz

Frank Brommer (born September 8, 1911 in Berlin , † April 21, 1993 in Koblenz ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Career

Frank Brommer received his doctorate on Satyroi in 1937 with Ernst Buschor in Munich . He then received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and worked as an assistant at the University of Marburg and as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens . In 1942 he joined the Archaeological Society of Berlin , in 1943 he was elected a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

From 1940 to 1945 Brommer served in World War II . In addition, he completed his habilitation on December 6, 1944 at the University of Berlin . In 1946 he went to the University of Marburg as an assistant, where he acquired the Venia legendi for Classical Archeology and was appointed associate professor in 1951. In 1958 he accepted a chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Mainz as the successor to Roland Hampe , where he worked until his retirement in 1976. Brommer was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) in 1958 and 1962 , Geddes-Harrower Professor in Aberdeen in 1978 and Visiting Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu . Brommer was a full member and member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute .

Frank Brommer's interests were primarily the sculpture and vase painting of classical Greece , especially the depictions of myths. Four of his books alone are dedicated to the sculptures of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. His work on the images of individual gods and heroes, such as Heracles , Hephaestus , Theseus and Odysseus, found widespread distribution . His lists of depictions of the Greek heroic saga were indispensable tools for decades. Frank Brommer's writings are characterized by object-relatedness and methodological rigor and also reproduce complex issues clearly and concisely.

He donated his private antique collection to the antique collection of the Berlin museums .

Frank Brommer was born in 1942 with the prehistorian Elisabeth. Krebs (1911–1986) married. He is the father of the biologist Bettina Brommer and the historian and archivist Peter Brommer .

Fonts (selection)

  • Satyroi , Triltsch, Würzburg 1937, DNB 579258289 (Philosophical dissertation University of Munich 1937, 70 pages with illustrations, 8).
  • Heracles. The 12 deeds of the hero in ancient art and literature . Böhlau, Münster and Cologne 1953.
  • Vase lists for the Greek heroic saga. Heracles, Theseus, Aigeus, Erechtheus, Erichthonios, Kekrops, Kodros, Perseus, Bellerophon, Meleager, Peleus . Elwert, Marburg 1956.
  • The pediment of the Parthenon. An introduction . Zabern, Mainz 1959.
  • Satyr games. Images of Greek vases . de Gruyter, Berlin 1959.
  • Heracles. The 12 deeds of the hero in ancient art and literature . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972.
  • The god Vulcano on reliefs from the Roman Provinces . Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-412-84273-7 .
  • Hephaestus. The blacksmith god in ancient art . von Zabern, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0334-3 .
  • Anecdotes and sayings from German archaeologists (ed.). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-8030-1027-6 .
  • The Parthenon sculptures. Metopes, frieze, gable, cult image . von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0360-2 .
  • Concordance lists on old vase literature . Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0668-9 .
  • Legends of the gods in lists of vases . Elwert, Marburg 1980, ISBN 3-7708-0680-8 .
  • Theseus. The deeds of the Greek hero in ancient art and literature . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-08784-4 .
  • Odysseus. The Hero's Deeds and Sorrows in Ancient Art and Literature . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-09400-X .
  • The Acropolis of Athens . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1985, ISBN 3-534-02847-3 .

literature

  • Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Marburg 1979, p. 477
  • Ursula Höckmann , Antje Krug (Hrsgg.): Festschrift for Frank Brommer . von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0155-3 .
  • Michael Krumme: Art and Archeology, the Brommer Collection. Antikenmuseum, Berlin 1989. ISBN 3-88609-187-2
  • Robert Fleischer : The Myth Researcher. On the death of the classical archaeologist Frank Brommer . In: Antike Welt 24 (1993) p. 363.

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personal data
SURNAME Brommer, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1993
Place of death Koblenz