Friedrich Wieseler
Friedrich Julius August Wieseler (born October 19, 1811 in Altencelle ; † December 3, 1892 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist .
Career
After attending school in Salzwedel and high school in Göttingen, the son of a pastor studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen from 1830 , especially with Karl Otfried Müller . From 1833 to 1836 he stayed in Berlin, where he attended lectures with August Böckh and did private studies, before returning to Göttingen. Wieseler received his doctorate in Jena in 1837 and qualified as a professor in Göttingen in 1839 for archeology and philology. In 1841 he took over the management of the archaeological-numismatic collection, which had been vacant since Müller's death (from 1843 together with Müller's successor Karl Friedrich Hermann ), and in 1842 he became an associate professor. After the rejection of a call to the University of Dorpat in 1845, Wieseler founded an archaeological seminar. In 1854 he was appointed full professor and in 1869 admitted to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1878/79 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1889 Wieseler gave up the management of the archaeological-numismatic collection, but continued to teach at the archaeological seminar. Since 1856 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
Wieseler, who had increasingly developed into an archaeologist, continued to have close ties with classical philology, including work on ancient theater. In the field of archeology, he continued Müller's Monuments of Ancient Art and dealt with symbols and attributes of gods in several treatises. Wieseler had numerous students who became important archaeologists. During his time in Göttingen habilitated in him Alexander Conze (1861), Otto Benndorf (1868), Friedrich Matz (1870), Friedrich von Duhn (1879), Gustav Korte (1880) and Arthur milk Höfer (1882). Further students were Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher , Habbo Gerhard Lolling and Georg Hubo .
literature
- Klaus Fittschen : From Wieseler to Thiersch: One Hundred Years of Classical Archeology in Göttingen . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): The classical antiquity at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: A lecture series on its history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 , pp. 78-87
- Albert Müller: Wieseler, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 430-433.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Friedrich Julius August Wieseler. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 11, 2015 (Russian).
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wieseler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical summary - University of Zurich
Friedrich Wieseler (1854–1889) | Karl Dilthey (1889–1907) | Gustav Körte (1907–1917) | Hermann Thiersch (1918–1939) | Rudolf Horn (1946–1971) | Paul Zanker (1972–1976) | Klaus Fittschen (1976–1989) | Marianne Bergmann (1990 / 91–2008) | Johannes Bergemann (since 2009)
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| SURNAME | Wieseler, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wieseler, Friedrich Julius August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altencelle |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1892 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |