Georg Weicker

Georg William Weicker (born October 18, 1869 in Zwickau ; † 1957 ) was a German classical archaeologist , classical philologist and high school teacher.

After attending grammar school in Zwickau, he studied classical philology and classical archeology in Tübingen and Leipzig , where he was a student of Johannes Overbeck . He received his doctorate on December 14, 1895 in Leipzig with the thesis De Sirenibus quaestiones selectae . In 1896 he passed the state examination and initially worked as a teacher at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, then at the Realgymnasium in Annaberg . 1903–1904 he received a six-month travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . During this time he and Felix Bölte undertook an excavation to locate ancient Nisaia . From 1905 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1906 to 1911 he was a teacher at the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig and at the same time worked as an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Leipzig. From 1911 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Plauen , later in Güldenboden ( East Prussia ) and Elbing .

Publications (selection)

• De Sirenibus quaestiones selectae , Leipzig 1895 [1]
• The soul bird in ancient literature and art. A mythological-archaeological investigation , Leipzig, Teubner 1902
• with Felix Bölte: Nisaia and Minoa , in Athenische Mitteilungen 29 (1904) pp. 79–100
• Timonidas , in Athenische Mitteilungen 30 (1905) pp. 199-206
• Roosters on grave steles , in Athenische Mitteilungen 30 (1905) pp. 207–212
• A polychrome lekythos in Bonn , in the yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute (1907)
• Geryoneus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 1286-1296.
• Glaucoma 8-28. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 1408-1417.
• Seirens . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 601-640 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Professional biographies from school annual reports and school programs 1825–1918 , preprint Giessen 2007 (PDF; 5.6 MB)
• Reinhard Lullies and Wolfgang Schiering : Archaeologist portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language , Mainz, von Zabern 1988, p. 335
• Sponsors of the Antikenmuseum. Yesterday and Today, Leipzig 1996, p. 132