Gerhard Krahmer

Gerhard Krahmer (born December 4, 1890 , † September 19, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Gerhard Krahmer attended the Luisengymnasium in Berlin and from 1911 studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Halle . During the First World War he interrupted his studies and was seriously wounded at the front. In 1920 he received his doctorate from Carl Robert . His dissertation De tabula mundi from Joanne Gazaeo descripta was still completely under the influence of his teacher and was both philological and archaeological. In the following years, however, Krahmer developed into an independent interpreter of Hellenistic art. In addition, his stay in Greece (1922) as a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) influenced him .

Krahmer achieved his habilitation in 1925 in Göttingen with Hermann Thiersch . In 1989 , Klaus Fittschen described the post- doctoral thesis on the stylistic phases of Hellenistic sculpture as “a perfect example of [the] new research direction”, according to which archeology was no longer viewed as a philological or historical discipline but as an art history.

After completing his habilitation, Krahmer held archaeological lectures as a private lecturer in Göttingen. A serious lung disease forced him to take a cure in Egypt in the summer of 1927. In May 1929 he went to the cure again, this time to Greece, where he devoted two years to his research. On September 19, 1931, Krahmer died in Berlin as a result of kidney surgery.

literature

Werner Fuchs : Gerhard Krahmer . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . Verlag von Zabern, Mainz 1988, pp. 254-255. ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 .

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Fittschen: From Wieseler to Thiersch . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): Classical Classical Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen: A lecture series on its history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 , pp. 78-97.

personal data
SURNAME	Krahmer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1890
DATE OF DEATH	September 19, 1931
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Klaus Fittschen: From Wieseler to Thiersch . In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): Classical Classical Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen: A lecture series on its history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 , pp. 78-97.