Hans Nachod (archaeologist)

Hans Nachod (born May 31, 1885 in Leipzig , † July 23, 1958 in New York ) was a German classical archaeologist and Renaissance researcher.

Life

Nachod, from a wealthy Leipzig banking family, attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig from 1895 to 1904 and then studied two semesters in Freiburg i. Br., In Leipzig and Berlin and from 1907 to 1909 again in Leipzig. He received his doctorate on November 3, 1909 under Franz Studniczka at the University of Leipzig with the thesis The racing car among the Italians and their neighbors . In 1911 he worked at the Athens Department , and in 1912/13 at the Rome Department of the Imperial Archaeological Institute . After the First World War , between 1919 and 1939 he was a freelance scientist and temporarily deputy museum curator at the Leipzig Collection of Antiquities . In 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he worked at Columbia University in 1941 . From 1945 until his death in 1958, Nachod worked for the New York book antiquarian Hans Peter Kraus . He translates works by Thomas Aquinas , Francesco Petrarca and literature from English and Dutch into German.

The racing car of the Italians and their neighbors , Radelli & Hille, Leipzig 1909
with Paul Stern: Thomas Aquinas: The sum against the heathen. In 4 books , Hegner, Leipzig 1935–1937
with Paul Stern: Francesco Petrarca: letters. A selection , Die Runde Verlag, Berlin 1931
with Paul Stern: The ascent of Mont Ventoux. Francesco Petrarca to Francesco Dionigi von Borgo San Sepolcro in Paris , Insel, Frankfurt, Leipzig 1996 ISBN 3-458-19163-1 ( Insel-Bücherei , Volume 1163)

Paul Oskar Kristeller [3]
Hans Peter Kraus: The saga of the precious books . Zurich 1982, pp. 124, 152, 175ff, 234, 267ff, 417.
Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 335.

personal data
SURNAME	Nachod, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist and Renaissance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1958
Place of death	new York