Günter Fuchs

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Günter Fuchs (born January 3, 1924 in Offenbach am Main , † February 17, 1964 near Braunschweig ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After Fuchs graduated from high school at Easter 1942, he was drafted three weeks later for military service in World War II and deployed on the Eastern Front. Here he suffered severe frostbite that crippled his feet. Pulmonary tuberculosis did not heal until the post-war years. In April 1944 he was released because of his severe wounds and began studying architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He never recovered from his war damage; until his death he suffered from kidney stones.

After the University of Göttingen reopened , Fuchs moved there and studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Art History . After graduating, he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin from autumn 1953 to spring 1954 . On January 20, 1954, he received his doctorate with Rudolf Horn's dissertation: Architectural Representations on Roman Coins . After six months as acting scientific assistant in Göttingen, the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute enabled him to travel to Rome, Greece and Asia Minor (1955). He then worked for two years as a research assistant at the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute and returned to Göttingen on November 1, 1957, where he had received a position as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute. He achieved his habilitation in Classical Archeology on July 24, 1961 with the font Macellum and Basilica . He only wanted to have the writing printed after he had checked his research through excavations in Pompeii . But before he could travel there, Fuchs had a fatal accident on the evening of February 17, 1964 on the way to a lecture in Braunschweig.

His main field of work was ancient building history, to which he devoted himself in his dissertation, his habilitation thesis and numerous articles. His work on Greek and Roman sculpture remained largely unfinished. Five years after his death, Jochen Bleicken and Manfred Fuhrmann published the expanded version of his dissertation ( architectural representations on Roman coins of the republic and the early imperial era , Berlin 1969).

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1964
Place of death Braunschweig