Herbert Koch (archaeologist)

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Herbert Guido Koch (born July 1, 1880 in Reichenbach (Eulengebirge) , † September 25, 1962 in Hamburg ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Koch studied German, classical archeology and art history in Leipzig and Munich. There he received his doctorate in German studies in 1903 with his work The relationship between drama and history under Friedrich Hebbel . In Munich he belonged to Stefan George's circle and is mentioned by Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow in Von Paul zu Pedro 1912.

Drawn to archeology by Adolf Furtwängler and trained by Franz Studniczka , Koch worked as a research assistant under Richard Delbrück at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in 1910/11 and 1913/14 and in Athens in 1912/13. In 1913 he received his habilitation for classical archeology at the University of Bonn . In 1918 the University of Jena appointed the young private lecturer as associate professor to succeed Botho Graef , whom he also followed in the chairmanship of the Jenaer Kunstverein . In 1924 he was appointed full professor. 1929–1931 Koch taught at the University of Leipzig , then at the University of Halle until his retirement in 1950. From 1930 he was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . From 1951 to 1953 he was provisional director of the Archaeological Institute in Leipzig and then taught again in Halle until he fled the GDR in 1959. Koch was married to the art historian Hanna Koch, nee. Kämnitz. He was friends with the painter Charles Crodel and the writer Franz Hessel .

Herbert Koch was the academic teacher of Eberhard Paul , Leopold Ettlinger and appreciated by Margarete Bieber (German Readings in the History and Theory of Fine Arts. 1946).

Fonts (selection)

  • Roof terracottas from Campania with the exception of Pompei. Reimer, Berlin 1912 (habilitation thesis).
  • Roman art. Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1925 (Jedermanns Bücherei). 2nd, extended edition: Böhlau, Weimar 1949.
  • Obituary for Franz Studniczka. In: Meeting reports of the philological-historical class at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Vol. 82 (1930), H. 2, pp. 1-20.
  • The classical art of the Greeks: from the introduction to an unpublished book (= Hallische Monographien. No. 2). Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1948.
  • Winckelmann and Goethe in Rome (= Die Gestalt. Vol. 20). Neomarius, Tübingen 1950.
  • The Greek-Doric temple (= German contributions to ancient studies. Vol. 1). Metzler, Stuttgart 1951.
  • From the afterlife of Vitruvius. Publishing house for art and science, Baden-Baden 1951.
  • Studies on the Theseus temple in Athens (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-historical class, vol. 47/2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1955.
  • From Ionic architecture (= Die Gestalt. Vol. 26). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1956.

Portrait

  • Charles Crodel: Wilhelm Worringer and Herbert Koch, 1922, color woodcut (catalog raisonné No. 150)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Kämnitz: Caspar David Friedrich and the Romantic art theories. Phil. Diss., Jena 1923; Hanna Koch: Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Language and artwork. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
  2. ↑ http://arthistorians.info/ettlingerl
  3. ↑ http://arthistorians.info/bieberm
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Herbert Guido (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach (Owl Mountains)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1962
Place of death Hamburg