Georg Kawerau

Memorial plaque in the library of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens

Georg Kawerau (born December 12, 1856 in Berlin , † April 13, 1909 in Stettin ; full name: Georg Ferdinand Kawerau ) was a German architect and building researcher .

Georg Kawerau was born as the seventh child of sports educator and later church musician Martin Kawerau and Emilie, née Kahle, and grew up in Berlin. After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied at the Berlin Building Academy and then completed his legal clerkship as a government building manager at the garrison building administration in Stargard, Pomerania .

For health reasons he went to Greece and turned to archeology. He took part in Heinrich Schliemann's excavations in Tiryns in 1885 and carried out the excavation on the Athens Acropolis with Panagiotis Kavvadias from 1885 to 1890 . At Olympia he set up two pillars of Heraion again.

He then worked for a few years as an architect in Turkey , including building a waterworks in Skutari , building roads and building the station building for the Anatolian Railway between Eskişehir and Konya from 1893 to 1896 , after which he built as a partner in the company Wechselmann & Kawerau in Szczecin .

In August 1907, he was awarded University of Giessen the honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. Hc). Theodor Wiegand won him over as excavation architect for the excavations of the Berlin museums in Miletus and Pergamon . Since April 1, 1908, he was employed as assistant director of the Berlin museums with headquarters in Constantinople. With Hubert Knackfuß he worked on the Delphinion in Miletus, with Alexander Conze on the palaces of Pergamon.

Publications

• with Panagiotis Kavvadias: The excavation of the Acropolis from 1885 to 1890. = Η ανασκαφή της Ακροπόλεως από του 1885 μέχρι του 1890 (= Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας. 13). Typographeion Hestia, Athens 1906.
• with Georgios Soteriades: The Temple of Apollo at Thermos. In: Ancient Monuments , Volume 2, 1902/08. ( Digitized version ).
• with Albert Rehm : The Delphinion in Milet (= Milet Volume 1, 3). Berlin 1914 ( digitized version ).
• with Theodor Wiegand : The palaces of the stronghold (= antiquities of Pergamon , volume 5, 1). Berlin 1930.
• posthumous: poems. Berlin 1913. (With a foreword by Theodor Wiegand. Private print “for his friends”.)

literature

• August Köster : Georg Kawerau. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für die Altertumswwissenschaft 32, 1909, pp. 68–69.
• Official reports from the Königl. Prussian Art Collections 30, 1908–09, pp. 205–106.
• J. Kohte: Georg Kawerau †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 33 (from April 24, 1909), pp. 231–232 ( digitized version ).
• Jens Andreas Bundgaard: The Excavation of the Athenian Acropolis 1882–1990. The Original Drawings edited from the papers of Georg Kawerau. Copenhagen 1974.
• Ioannis Andreas Panteleon: An Archeology of Directors. The exploration of Milets in the name of the Berlin museums 1899-1914 (= Mediterranean studies. Vol. 5). Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5676-2 .