Gustav Körte

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Gustav Körte (born February 8, 1852 in Berlin , † August 15, 1917 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Gustav Körte was one of ten children of the doctor Friedrich Körte (1818–1914) and his wife Marie, b. Thaer (1832-1898). His siblings included the surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Körte (1854-1934), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929), the Königsberg mayor Siegfried Körte (1861-1919) and the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866-1946).

In 1870, Körte graduated from the Friedrich-Werderschen Gymnasium in Berlin and began studying classical philology and archeology at the University of Göttingen . In 1871 he moved to Heinrich Brunn in Munich , and in 1873 to Berlin . In 1874 he received his doctorate in Munich near Brunn with the dissertation "On personifications of psychological affects in later vase painting". He then went on a two-month trip to Florence , Rome and Naples . In the autumn of 1874, Körte returned to Germany and prepared in Göttingen for the teacher examination, which he passed in 1875. From 1875 to 1876, Körte traveled to Italy and Greece with the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute , and from 1877 to 1879 he worked as an assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens .

After returning home, Körte worked for a short time at the Berlin Antiquarium before going to Göttingen as a private lecturer in 1880. In 1881 he followed a call to the University of Rostock , where he took over the chair of archeology and held the office of rector in the summer semester of 1895. From 1905 to 1907, Körte headed the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In 1907 he switched to the Göttingen chair, where he researched and taught until his death. He died shortly before his retirement from the effects of an appendix operation. His successor was Hermann Thiersch .

On September 27, 1887, Körte married Anna Nasse (1864–1938), a daughter of the economist Erwin Nasse ; the marriage remained childless.

Services

Körtes research focused on individual Greek art monuments and the art and culture of the Etruscans . In 1884, he and Adolf Klügmann took over the Etruscan Mirror series founded by Eduard Gerhard . His individual investigations dealt particularly with the excavations in the necropolises in Orvieto and Tarquinia . He also worked for the project The Ancient Sarcophagus Reliefs .

Together with his brother Alfred, he carried out excavations in the ancient city of Gordion in Asia Minor in 1900 , the location of which his brother had discovered in 1895. The discovery of Gordion first made research into the Phrygian culture of the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Possible.

Publications (selection)

  • with Adolf Klügmann: Etruscan mirrors . Volume 5, Berlin 1884-1897.
  • I rilievi delle urn etrush . Volume 2, 1, Berlin 1890; Volume 2, 2, Berlin 1896; Volume 3, Berlin 1916.
  • with Alfred Körte: Gordion. Results of the excavations in 1900 . Berlin 1904.
  • The volumnier grave near Perugia. A contribution to the chronology of Etruscan art (= treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class New Series 12, 1). Berlin 1909.
  • Göttinger Bronzen (= treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class New Series 16, 4). Berlin 1917.

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personal data
SURNAME Körte, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1917
Place of death Goettingen