Hans Weber (archaeologist)

Hans Weber (born June 2, 1913 in Munich , † May 4, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Hans Weber studied in Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main and Munich. In 1938 he received his doctorate from Ernst Buschor with his thesis Greek women's costumes in the 4th century before the turn of the century . He was unable to take up the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) awarded to him in 1939 because the war had broken out. From 1938 to 1944 he was involved in excavations in Olympia . In 1944/45 he was assistant to Emil Kunze at the University of Strasbourg . In 1956 in Kiel he obtained his habilitation with the work Investigations into the portrait art of Greece in Hadrianic times . In 1957 Weber took over the editorial office at the DAI headquarters in Berlin. In 1961 he became Second Director of the Istanbul Department of the DAI . Appointments from the Universities of Kiel , Hamburg and Freiburg i. Br. Weber chose Freiburg, where he taught until 1980.

Weber worked scientifically on temple architecture in Asia Minor, on Greek sculpture and especially on the portrait statues of the Herodes Atticus nymphaeum of Olympia.

Fonts

• Greek women's costumes in the fourth century before the turn of the times. Wuerzburg 1938.

literature

• Volker Michael Strocka : Hans Weber 1913–1981. In: portraits of archaeologists . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 317-318.