Hermann Schweitzer

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Hermann Adolf Schweitzer (born October 3, 1871 in Karlsruhe , † June 25, 1933 ) was a German art historian .

Hermann Schweitzer attended high school and the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe and then studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich . In 1892 he graduated as a drawing teacher and worked as such at high schools in Meersburg and Heidelberg. In 1896 he became a member of the Teutonia Heidelberg-Rostock Landsmannschaft .

After receiving his doctorate in 1898, Schweitzer became assistant to Henry Thode at the Archaeological-Art-History Institute of Heidelberg University. In 1900 he became curator of the collections of the city of Freiburg . In 1904 he moved to the Suermondt Museum in Aachen as director . On his initiative, from 1906 the Aachener Kunstblätter were published by the Aachen Museum Association as the official news organ and forum for scientific contributions. In 1922 Schweitzer retired and lived again in Waldkirch near Freiburg.

Publications (selection)

  • The medieval grave monuments with figurative representations in the Neckar region from Heidelberg to Heilbronn . Heitz, Strasbourg 1899 (dissertation, digitized version )
  • History of German art from the earliest historical times to the present . Otto Maier, Ravensburg 1905
  • The sculpture collection in the City Suermondt Museum in Aachen . Creutzer, Aachen 1910.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 10th edition. Degener, Leipzig 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 499.
personal data
SURNAME Schweitzer, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweitzer, Hermann Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1933