Georg Daltrop

Georg Daltrop (born April 24, 1932 in Burgsteinfurt ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Georg Daltrop studied classical archeology in Münster and was at 1,957 Max Wegner with the dissertation The city of Rome male Privatbildnisse Trajan and Hadrian time doctorate . Then he was a research assistant in Münster until 1959. In 1959 he moved to the Berlin Collection of Antiquities as a research assistant in the western part of the city . The activity was interrupted for a year when Daltrop was able to travel to the Mediterranean area in 1961/62 as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1963 he became head of the antiques department at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg . Four years later he went to the Vatican Museums as the successor to Hermine Speier as Ispettore of the Monumenti Musei e Gallerie Pontificie Città del Vaticano . From 1972 to 1983 he was director of the Vatican Collections of Antiquities. After working briefly as a consultant in 1983, he became the first professor of classical archeology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . In 1997 he retired and was succeeded by Gerhard Zimmer .

Daltrop was primarily concerned with Roman art . As an employee of the Vatican Museums, he mainly dealt with the museum's works of art, such as the Laocoon group and images of gods. In addition, he dealt with emperor and private portraits, but also cultural-historical topics such as hunting , such as the Calydonian boar hunt or ancient Roman mosaics with hunting representations. Daltrop also dealt with Greek art, such as the Athena of Myron . He has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1969 and , after moving to Eichstätt , of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia since 1971 .

Fonts (selection)

• The urban Roman male private portraits of the Trajan and Hadrian times , Archaeological Seminar of the University of Münster, Münster 1958
• The Calydonian Hunt in Antiquity , Parey, Hamburg-Berlin 1966 (The Hunt in Art)
• with Ulrich Hausmann : The Roman image of rulers. Department 2, Volume 1: The Flavians. Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Julia Titi, Domitilla, Domitia , Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1966
• The hunting mosaics of the Roman villa at Piazza Armerina , Parey, Hamburg-Berlin 1969 (The hunt in art)
• with Adriano Prandi: The art collections of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome , DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1969
• with Francesco Roncalli : Vatican Museums , Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Vatican City 1972
• The Laocoon group in the Vatican. A chapter from the history of Roman museums and the exploration of antiquities , Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1982, 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 3-87940-207-8 ( Xenia , Volume 5)
• with Peter Cornelis Bol : Athena des Myron , Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main 1983 (Liebieghaus monograph, volume 8)
• Ancient statues of gods in the Vatican. The Vatican-Roman tradition of classical archeology , Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel and Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-7190-0976-9 (Lectures by the Aeneas Silvius Foundation at the University of Basel, Volume 22)

literature

• Gerhard Zimmer (editor): New research on Hellenistic sculpture. Colloquium on the 70th birthday of Georg Daltrop , Kastner, Wolnzach 2003, ISBN 3-937082-07-7 [including list of publications by Georg Daltrop, pp. 171–174]