Habbo Gerhard Lolling

Habbo Gerhard Lolling

Habbo Gerhard Lolling (born November 23, 1848 in Tergast near Emden , † February 22, 1894 in Athens ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Childhood and studies

Habbo Gerhard Lolling was the son of a village school teacher in East Friesland. He was born in Tergast and grew up in Larrelt . After training at his father's school, he attended grammar school in Emden. Lolling began to learn modern Greek and Italian as early as his high school days. From 1868 he studied classical philology , history and archeology at the University of Göttingen . He was particularly influenced by the archaeologist Friedrich Wieseler from his academic teachers, who included Ernst Curtius , Hermann Sauppe and Kurt Wachsmuth . He encouraged Lolling to do his dissertation on the Medusa (De Medusa ), with which Lolling received his doctorate in 1871 . In the following months Lolling worked as an assistant teacher at the grammar school and the community school in Clausthal and prepared for the teaching qualification exam, which he passed in autumn 1872.

Travel and research in Greece

After graduating, Lolling continued to live in Greece, mainly in Athens. He made his only trip to Germany in 1882 when his mother died.

On the recommendation of his teacher Wieseler, Lolling received a position as a private tutor at the German consul in Athens, the bookseller Karl Wilberg. Lolling taught his sons for four years and traveled the surrounding country in his free time. When his position expired in 1876, the publisher Karl Baedeker (the younger) found a new position for Lolling, which made a longer stay in Greece possible: Lolling was to write a volume about Greece for the Baedeker travel guide. To do this, he traveled around the country for two years, collecting notes. The resulting manuscript was too extensive for the purposes of the publishing series and was only printed in an edition of twelve copies.

After his trip for the Baedeker publishing house, Lolling gained experience as a field archaeologist. In 1878 he traveled to the Ionian Islands and Asia Minor , where he supported Carl Humann with the excavation in Pergamon . From April to June 1879, together with Panagiotis Stamatakis, he led the excavation of a Mycenaean domed tomb near the Attic village of Menidi .

Lolling did not have a steady income again until the summer of 1879. He was employed as a librarian at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. Together with Paul Wolters he worked in the editorial department of the communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department . As an employee of the DAI, he had the opportunity to continue his research trips to Greece and Asia Minor. He published the experiences and results of his travels in numerous essays and articles in German and Greek journals. Lolling's main research interests were topography and epigraphy .

In addition to his research work and his work for the Athens Institute, Lolling edited the Greece travel guide for the Baedeker publishing house. The first edition appeared in 1883, the second and third editions followed in 1888 and 1893. He is honored in the foreword to these editions. Lolling lost his job at the DAI in 1888 because the institute lacked financial resources. The Greek general ephoros Panagiotis Kavvadias offered him a position at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Here Lolling, as the curator, was responsible for cataloging the holdings and selecting the exhibits. He died over this work on February 22, 1894, at the age of 45, as a result of overwork and years of exhausting travel.

Interest in Lolling's archaeological work was particularly evident in the late 20th century. His first edition of the Greece travel guide, the "Ur-Greece-Baedeker", was reprinted in 1989 under the title Travel Notes from Greece: 1876 and 1877 on the initiative of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. In 1994 the DAI organized the HG Lolling conference and Greek regional studies and epigraphy in Athens .

literature

• after Paul Wolters : Gerhard Lolling . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (eds.): Archaeologists portraits: portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language , Mainz 1988, pp. 92–93. ISBN 3-8053-0971-6
• Klaus Fittschen (Ed.): Historical regional studies and epigraphy in Greece. Files of the symposium organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of HG Lolling (1848-1894) in Athens from September 28 to 30, 1994 , Münster, Scriptorium 2007, ISBN 978-3-932610-38-7

Web links

Wikisource: Habbo Gerhard Lolling  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Habbo Gerhard Lolling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Article in the Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia by Wilt Aden Schröder (PDF)
• Literature by and about Habbo Gerhard Lolling in the catalog of the German National Library