Hans von Steuben

Hans von Steuben (born July 15, 1929 in Hamburg , † July 27, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical archaeologist .

As the son of the bank clerk Kurt von Steuben and his wife Elfriede Güttler, he grew up in Babelsberg . After graduating from high school, he first studied medicine, but then, after studying in Tübingen and Berlin , devoted himself to classical archeology in Freiburg with Walter-Herwig Schuchardt . On 29 July 1960 he was with the work Say representations on Corinthian and Attic vases in Freiburg doctorate . In 1961/62 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

From 1960 to 1965 he was involved in the preparation of the fourth edition of the Guide to the Public Collections of Classical Antiquities in Rome . He then worked as an assistant at the University of Göttingen until 1971 , where he also received his habilitation . From 1973 until his retirement in 1994 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Frankfurt . His project, Donations by Hellenistic Rulers to Greek Cities and Sanctuaries , run jointly with Walter Ameling and Klaus Bringmann and funded by the German Research Foundation , was awarded a research prize in 1989.

Steuben's focus was on classical sculpture and Greek art. The questions that dealt with the artistic form of expression preoccupied him so much that he looked for the legalities of art in the forms of expression. He was editor of Beck's Archaeological Library and co-editor of the sources and research on the Ancient World .

When he died on July 27, 2008 after a long illness, the family dedicated the saying of Parmenides in the Prooimion to him :

It is the path of conviction, because it goes with the truth

Fonts

• Early sagas in Corinth and Athens. Berlin 1968.
• The Canon of Polyklet - Doryphorus and Amazone. Tübingen 1973.
• with Peter Cornelis Bol: head of a Kuro. Frankfurt / Main 1980.
• with Jaap Mansfeld: Parmenides, About Being. Greek-German. Stuttgart 1981.
• The Agora of Athens from Peisistratos to Kimon. 1988.
• Letters from abroad - Festschrift for the 60th birthday. Frankfurt / Main 1989.
• Ancient portraits. In memory of Helga von Heintze. Möhnesee 1999.
• Truth and creed. Revelations of light in ancient and Christian times. Möhnesee 1999.
• with Klaus Bringmann : give and take. Monarchical charity and self-expression in the age of Hellenism. Part 2, historical and archaeological evaluation. Volume 1: Historical evaluation. Berlin 2000.
• (Ed.): Adolf Michaelis : Archäologische Reisen in Greece 1860 and 1886. Möhnesee 2004.
• with Götz Lahusen and Haritini Kotsidu (eds.): Mouseion. Contributions to ancient plastic. Festschrift in honor of Peter Cornelis Bol. Möhnesee 2007.

literature

• Peter Cornelis Bol : The Eternal Truth - To the death of the archaeologist Hans von Steuben. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 12, 2008.
• Wulf Raeck : Hans von Steuben. In: UniReport 41, 8, 2008, p. 26 ( PDF ).
• Wulf Raeck: Hans von Steuben †. In: Gnomon . Volume 81, 2009, pp. 766-767.

Web links

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