Hans Diepolder

Hans Diepolder (born October 26, 1896 in Regensburg , † March 22, 1969 ibid) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Regensburg, Hans Diepolder, the son of a lawyer, first studied ancient history , then classical archeology and art history at the University of Munich . As a student he joined the Academic Choral Society in Munich . His academic teachers were Paul Wolters and Heinrich Wölfflin . 1922 Diepolder was with managed by Wolters dissertation studies on the composition of the Roman Campanian mural doctorate . From 1923 to 1925 Diepolder received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and stayed in Rome and Athens .

After his return he worked in Munich as an assistant at the coin collection, later at the Museum for Casts of the Archaeological Institute . Diepolder achieved his habilitation in 1929 with the work The Attic grave reliefs of the 5th and 4th centuries , which appeared in 1931. From 1929 Diepolder worked with Carl Weickert for the new Munich archeology professor Ernst Buschor . After Weickert moved to the Berlin Antikensammlung in 1936, Diepolder was appointed as his successor as head of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich in 1937 . From 1946 he held archaeological lectures and exercises as an honorary professor at the University of Munich. In 1962 Diepolder retired as head of the antique collection.

Diepolder researched mainly on Greek vase painting, but also on architecture and sculpture as well as on the history of archeology.

Fonts (selection)

• Investigations into the composition of the Roman-Campanian wall paintings Dissertation Munich 1922 ( excerpt ).
  • printed as investigations into the composition of the Roman-Campanian wall paintings. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Roman Department 41, 1926, pp. 1-78.
• The Attic grave reliefs of the 5th and 4th centuries. Keller, Berlin 1931 (reprints 1965 and 1969).
• The Penthesilea Painter (= Pictures of Greek Vases Book 10). Keller, Leipzig 1936.
• The Pistoxenos painter (= Winckelmann programs of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 110). De Gruyter, Berlin 1954.

literature

• Heinz Haffter : Hans Diepolder . In: Gnomon 44, 1972, pp. 834-836.
• Wolfgang Schiering : Hans Diepolder . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (eds.): Archaeological portraits: portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 270-271.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 144.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Diepolder in the catalog of the German National Library