Heinz Kähler

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Heinz Kähler (born January 21, 1905 in Tetenbüll , † January 9, 1974 in Cologne ) was a German classical archaeologist .

The son of a pastor studied in Freiburg i. Br., Berlin and Kiel Classical archeology, ancient history, classical philology and art history. In 1929 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with Hans Dragendorff with the thesis The Roman Capitals of the Rhine Area . In 1931/32 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1932 to 1936 he lived as a freelance scientist in Munich and Berlin. He undertook numerous research trips through France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and western Asia Minor. The journeys resulted in essays on monuments of Roman art, especially architecture. From October 1936 to June 1937 Kähler was a research assistant at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. In May 1937 he joined the NSDAP . From 1937 to 1941 he was assistant to Ernst Buschor in Munich. From 1941 he was the curator of the Museum for Casts of Classical Sculptures . Despite being obliged to do military service, he received his habilitation in 1942 with the work The Great Frieze of Pergamon , and in 1943 he became a lecturer in classical archeology. In 1951 he was appointed adjunct professor in Munich. In 1953 he received the chair in Saarbrücken. As the successor to Andreas Rumpf , Kähler took over the management of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Cologne from 1960 until his retirement in 1973 .

His main focus of work was architecture and architectural sculpture, first of all in the provinces of the Roman Empire, then generally from the archaic period of Greece to the Roman and Byzantine late antiquity. Outstanding works include: a. the investigations on the triumphal arches (1939), the Pergamon frieze (1948) and the Greek metopes (1949). In later years the focus was on late antiquity with studies on the churches in Aquileia (1957 and 1962), Hagia Sophia (1967) and the Villa of Maxentius near Piazza Armerina (1973).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Roman capitals of the Rhine area (= Roman-Germanic research. 13, ISSN  0176-5337 ). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1939, (at the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1929).
  • Triumphal Arch (Arch of Honor). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity . Row 2, half vol. 13 = Vol. 7A, 1: Tributum to M. Tullius Cicero. New processing. Metzler, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 373-493.
  • The great frieze of Pergamon. Research into the history of art and the history of Pergamon. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1948, (at the same time: Munich, university, habilitation paper, 1942).
  • The Greek metope image. Münchner Verlag, Munich 1949.
  • The five-column monument for the tetrarchs on the Roman Forum (= Monumenta artis Romanae. 3, ISSN  0077-1406 ). DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1964.
  • The frieze from the equestrian monument of Aemilius Paullus in Delphi (= Monumenta artis Romanae. 5). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1965.
  • Hagia Sophia. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1967.
  • The early church. Cult and cult space. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-7861-4085-5 .
  • The Villa of Maxentius near Piazza Armerina (= Monumenta artis Romanae. 12). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-7861-2185-0 .

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SURNAME Kähler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Tetenbull
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1974
Place of death Cologne