Hans Jucker (archaeologist)

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Hans Jucker (born January 25, 1918 in Mogelsberg ; † March 9, 1984 in Bern ) was a Swiss classical archaeologist .

Life

Hans Jucker, who came from a family of theologians and church musicians in Basel , grew up in Veitheim and attended grammar school in Aarau . From 1937 he studied Classical Archeology (with Ernst Pfuhl ), Classical Philology (with Peter Von der Mühll and Harald Fuchs ) and Ancient History (with Felix Staehelin ) at the University of Basel . After the third semester, Jucker moved to the University of Zurich . When the Second World War broke out , he was drafted into active service and repeatedly had to interrupt his studies. In 1945 he retired as a major from the army and completed his studies just one year later: in 1946 he passed the state examination for Greek, Latin and history and at the same time was studying classical archeology with Arnold von Salis with the dissertation on the relationship between the Romans and the educated PhD in art of the Greeks .

After completing his studies, Jucker worked for a short time as an assistant teacher at the grammar school in Aarau and then went on a scholarship to the Swiss institute in Rome , which only recently existed. There Jucker researched Roman art and architecture for four years and collected material for his later publications. In 1949 he worked for six months as a guest assistant with Reinhard Herbig in Heidelberg . After the end of the scholarship period, Jucker started teaching at the Cantonal School in Winterthur in 1950 . In the same year he married the archaeologist Ines Scherrer . In 1952 the couple moved to Zurich , where Jucker worked at the Rämibühl canton school and promoted his habilitation . He reached it in 1956 with Hans Bloesch with the work Das Bildnis im Blätterkelch - The history and meaning of a Roman portrait form , which he published in 1961. The Roman portrait sculpture remained Jucker's main research area. Together with René Wehrli, he organized the exhibitions of Ancient Roman Portrait Sculpture (1953), Prehistoric Bronzes from Sardinia (1954) and Art and Life of the Etruscans (1955) at the Kunsthaus Zürich .

When the University of Bern decided to set up an archaeological seminar in 1957, Jucker was given the appropriate chair - initially as a semi-official associate professor, from 1961 as a full-time professor. In Bern he turned the cast and original collection of the university into a tool for archaeological research and represented archeology in research and teaching. He also organized two exhibitions, antique art from private ownership Bern - Biel - Solothurn (1967) and faces. Greek and Roman portraits from Swiss possession (1982/1983) on the occasion of his retirement .

Hans Jucker died on March 9, 1984 in Bern after a short, serious illness.

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SURNAME Jucker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mogelsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1984
Place of death Bern