Heinz Luschey
Heinz Luschey (born December 3, 1910 in Berlin , † January 1, 1992 in Tübingen ) was a German classical archaeologist . His areas of expertise were classical and Iranian archeology.
Life
Heinz Luschey, the son of the high school teacher Gustav Luschey (1880–1954), attended the city high school in Stettin, which his father ran from 1917 to 1945. After graduating from high school, Luschey studied classical archeology at the University of Munich with Ernst Buschor , where he received his doctorate in 1938 . From 1938 to 1939 he traveled with the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . His first scientific work was on the Greek and Asia Minor Toreutics and Greek glass vessels.
After serving in World War II , Luschay worked as an assistant at the Classical Archeology Seminar at the University of Tübingen . In 1956, shortly after his habilitation and appointment as a private lecturer, he was appointed second director of the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1961 he moved to the newly established Tehran department as first director. In 1963 he received the title of professor. For health reasons, he retired early in 1971 and moved to Tübingen, where he held archaeological events as an honorary professor.
Heinz Luschey's main research areas were broad fields of classical archeology and Iranian archeology and art history. He dealt intensively with Greek vase painting , glass and ceramic vessels, reliefs and iconography. He participated in the evaluation of the Bisutun finds through numerous individual studies.
Heinz Luschey was married to the art historian Ingeborg Luschey-Schmeisser.
literature
- Werner Fuchs : Heinz Luschey † . In: Gnomon . Volume 65 (1993), pp. 475-478
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Luschey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article about Heinz Luschey in the Encyclopaedia Iranica (by Wolfram Kleiss) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Luschey's personal form in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luschey, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1992 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |