Friedrich Hiller (archaeologist)

Friedrich Eugen Hiller (born March 12, 1926 in Munich ; died August 27, 2019 ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

The son of the sculptor Anton Hiller studied classical philology , German literature and classical archeology at the University of Munich . With the work investigations on the ornamentation of Attic vases of the 5th and 4th centuries BC , he was in 1955 Ernst Buschor doctorate .

After completing his studies, he was an assistant first in Munich, then at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens . He then became assistant to Heinrich Drerup at the University of Marburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1965 with the study of observations on Greek sculpture of the late 5th century BC . In 1967 he accepted an appointment at Saarland University , where he held the chair of Classical Archeology until his retirement in 1994. The original and cast collection of the Archaeological Institute of Saarland University was founded at the time of his activity . From 1973 to 1975 Friedrich Hiller was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In addition, until his retirement he was a member of the Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute and the Roman-Germanic Commission .

Researches

Research led Friedrich Hiller to Rusellae and Cap Palinuro , where he took part in the excavations under the direction of the director of the DAI Rome at the time, Rudolf Naumann , and in the Etruscan town of Rusellae also partly represented the excavation management. With Heinrich Drerup, he led an excavation team in 1962 that was able to prove the holy spring in the Temple of Apollo in Didyma and the earliest secos of the sanctuary. Further research led him to Demetrias in Thessaly , where he took over the excavation management after Vladimir Milojčić left the country in 1976. There he developed a special interest in the problems of bronze casting after finding several fragments of the molded shell .

The preoccupation with ancient sculpture was a central point of his research throughout his life. Shaped by his father, Friedrich Hiller had his own experience as a sculptor, which gave him his own access to this part of ancient art. The work of Polyklets , sarcophagus reliefs from the 4th century BC BC, Hellenistic portraits of rulers, the portrait of Augustus were just as much the subject of his research as abstract theoretical considerations on anthropometry in Greco-Roman antiquity. His form-analytical investigations were not limited to the art of the Greek Classical period , he also extended his studies in this regard to the art of the Geometric and Hellenistic periods. He intervened several times in the discussion about the Laocoon group .

Together with Jean Schaub, Friedrich Hiller took over the emergency excavations in 1978 in the German-French border area between the places Reinheim in Saarland and Bliesbruck in the Moselle department , which were converted into a systematic investigation in 1983 and regular excavations in 1987. In 1989 this cross-country research resulted in the establishment of the European culture park Bliesbruck-Reinheim . With Jean Schaub and Jean-Paul Petit, he published the excavation results in several articles.

Fonts

• Investigations into the ornamentation of Attic vases of the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. 1955
• with Rudolf Naumann and Elisabeth Naumann: Palinuro I. Topography and Architecture (= communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department. Supplement 3). Kerle, Heidelberg 1958.
• Historical research on the Greek statue of the late 5th century BC Chr. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1971.
• (Ed.): Norms and Values (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Vol. 18). Winter, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 3-533-03162-4 .

literature

• Karin Braun (ed.): Studies on classical archeology. Friedrich Hiller on his 60th birthday on March 12, 1986 (= Saarbrücker Studies on Archeology and Ancient History. Vol. 1). Saarbrücker Dr. u. Verl., Saarbrücken 1986, ISBN 3-925384-00-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Hiller in the catalog of the German National Library
• University protocols .

Remarks

1. ↑ Obituary, Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 27, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
2. ^ University professor for archeology Friedrich Hiller turns 90 , uni-saarland.de, March 11, 2016
3. ^ 85th birthday of Professor Friedrich Hiller , idw-online.de , November 4, 2011
4. ^ Kurt Bittel et al. (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute 1929 to 1979. Part 1 (= The German Archaeological Institute. History and documents. Volume 3). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, p. 24 f .; Friedrich Hiller: To the city wall of Rusellae. Report on investigations in the spring of 1960. In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department . Volume 69, 1962, pp. 59-75; Rudolf Neumann, Friedrich Hiller: Rusellae. Report on the investigations in 1957 and 1958. In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department. Volume 66, 1959, pp. 1-30.
5. ↑ Heinrich Drerup: Report on the excavations in Didyma 1962. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1964, pp. 333-384.
6. ↑ Friedrich Hiller: Form-historical studies on the Greek statue of the late 5th century BC. Chr. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1971, p. 1.
7. ^ Friedrich Hiller: To the canon Polyklets. In: Marburger Winckelmann program. 1965, pp. 1-15.
8. ↑ Friedrich Hiller: On the sarcophagus reliefs of the late 4th century BC. Chr. In: Marburger Winckelmann program. 1961, pp. 29-41.
9. ↑ Friedrich Hiller: Comments on the Pergamene image of rulers. In: Hans-Ulrich Cain et al. (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Nikolaus Himmelmann: Contributions to iconography and hermeneutics. Philipp von Zabern, Main 1989, pp. 245-251.
10. ^ Friedrich Hiller: Comments on the portrait of Augustus. In: Jean Michel Massing, Jean-Paul Petit (Eds.): Études offertes à Jean Schaub. Editions Serpentoise, Metz 1993, pp. 449-459.
11. ^ Friedrich Hiller: Measure and Freedom - Anthropometry in Greco-Roman Antiquity. In: Sigrid Braunfels (Ed.): The "measured man". Anthropometry in Art and Science. Moos, Munich 1973, pp. 33-42.
12. ↑ Friedrich Hiller: Observations on the form of late geometric sculpture. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute . Volume 94, 1979, pp. 18-31.
13. ↑ Friedrich Hiller: Once again Laocoon. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman department. Volume 86, 1979, pp. 271-295; the same: On the art-historical position of the Laocoon. In: Mannheim reports. Volume 35, 1989, pp. 29-34.
14. ^ For example, Jean Schaub, Friedrich Hiller, Jean Paul Petit: Deux caves de la région de Sarreguemines (Moselle). In: Revue archéologique de l'Est. Du paleolithique au moyen age. Volume 35, 1984, pp. 227-259.