Heinrich custom

Heinrich Sitte (born February 28, 1879 in Salzburg , † November 8, 1951 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Heinrich Sitte was the son of the architect Camillo Sitte and his wife Leopoldine and brother of the architect Siegfried Sitte . Only a little after his birth, the family moved to Vienna , where he also passed his Matura . From 1898 to 1903 he attended the University of Vienna , where he studied archeology with Emil Reisch and Robert von Schneider and art history with Alois Riegl and Franz Wickhoff . He also attended epigraphic and numismatic events with Eugen Bormann and Wilhelm Kubitschek . In 1903 he received his doctorate and then traveled to Italy, Greece and Constantinople on a state scholarship. From 1904 to 1910 he was assistant to the archaeological collection at the University of Vienna. In October 1910 he became secretary of the Austrian Archaeological Institute . As early as February 1912, without having completed his habilitation , he was appointed Associate Professor of Classical Archeology at the Archaeological-Epigraphic Seminar of the University of Innsbruck . A few years later he became chairman of the seminar with the ancient historian Carl Friedrich Lehmann, newly appointed for Rudolf von Scala . In 1919 he was appointed full professor and on December 31, 1945 he retired. As a result of an eye ailment, he became blind.

Heinrich Sitte had been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1914 .

Publications (selection)

• archaeological contributions in Hans Tietze: The monuments of the city of Vienna (XI.-XXI. district) . (= Austrian art topography ; vol. 2). Schroll, Vienna 1908
• Bach's "Chromatic". Introduced and explained by Heinrich Sitte. Berlin: Georg Stilke 1921. ( E-Book )
• To Phidias. A biographical contribution. Wagner University Press, Vienna 1925.
• Johann Sebastian Bach told as a "legend". Reiss, Berlin 1925.

literature

• Otto Walter : Obituary for Heinrich Sitte. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. 40, 1953, pp. 1-4 (with list of publications).
• 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.
• 100 years of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 1898–1998. Vienna 1998, pp. 125–126 (with picture).

Web links

• 100 years old history in Innsbruck: Franz Hampl on his 75th birthday ( MS Word ; 332 kB)