Georg Habich
Georg Habich (born June 24, 1868 in Darmstadt , † December 6, 1932 in Munich ) was a German numismatist , art historian and director of the State Coin Collection in Munich .
Life
After attending school in Darmstadt, Habich studied philology , classical archeology and art history at the universities in Bonn and Munich . After completing his doctorate with Heinrich Brunn in 1894 with the work The Amazon Group of the Attalic Consecration Gift , he became an assistant at the then Royal Coin Cabinet in Munich. From 1907 until his death in 1932 he was director of the Münzkabinett. During Habich's tenure, the coin collection was expanded primarily to include Renaissance medals and plaques.
Habich was an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1910 and a full member from 1920 .
Publications (selection)
- The German medalists of the XVI. Century . A. Riechmann, Halle ad Saale 1916 ( digitized )
- The medals of the Italian Renaissance. 1922.
- The German show coins of the XVI. Century . 4 volumes, 1929–1934.
literature
- Paul Wolters: Obituary Georg Habich . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . 1933 ( digital copy [PDF]).
- Dirk Steinhilber: Habich, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 388-400 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Habich, Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Writings by Georg Habich in the German Digital Library
- Georg Habich's membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on July 8, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ The history of the State Coin Collection in Munich. State Coin Collection Munich, accessed on July 8, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Habich, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German numismatist and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1932 |
| Place of death | Munich |