Hermann Thiersch
Hermann Thiersch (born January 12, 1874 in Munich , † June 5, 1939 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .
life and career
Hermann Thiersch came from a well-protected home. His father August Thiersch was an architect and professor of building history at the TH Munich . After attending primary school, Thiersch graduated from high school and studied classical archeology at the University of Munich . After semesters in Berlin , he was in 1898 when Adolf Furtwängler in Munich to Dr phil. with the dissertation “ Tyrrhenian amphorae . Studies on the history of ancient Attic vase painting ”. Scientific trips took him to Greece and Asia Minor with his father . The following year he got his first job as an assistant at the Royal Antiquarium in Munich. 1900–1901 and 1902–1903 he received the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which allowed him to travel to various countries in the eastern Mediterranean , mainly Palestine , where he found richly painted Hellenistic graves in Marisa (Heb. Maresha near Beit Jibrin, 62 km southwest of Jerusalem ) and found the previously lost location of the ancient city of Shechem . Later he took part in various excavations in Alexandria (city of the dead; Serapeion ), Pergamon and Aigina , the results of which were partly incorporated into his habilitation thesis " Two ancient graves near Alexandria ". In 1904 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. In 1905 he received a call to the University of Freiburg i. Br. As an associate professor, in 1909 he became a full professor. In the same year he published his ideas about the reconstruction of the " Great Lighthouse of Alexandria ", which made him known to specialist circles beyond Germany's borders. The year before, Christine Schwarz-Thiersch was born into the family as the third of seven children. In 1913 he was dean of the philosophy faculty. In 1918 he moved to the University of Göttingen as a full professor as the successor to the late Gustav Körte . In 1922 the dean's office followed, and in 1925 he was rector of the University of Göttingen. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . From 1924 to 1936 he was secretary of the Göttingen Society of Sciences . In this capacity he again undertook several trips abroad to Asia Minor, North Africa and again to Greece, where he became seriously ill in 1937. In 1938 he was expelled from the Göttingen Academy because his wife had been classified as “ half-Jewish ”. He was unable to continue teaching until his retirement on January 20, 1939. During his time in Göttingen, he dealt with questions relating to the history of religion and aspects of the reception of antiquity.
Lore
Individual letters, documents and files from Thiersch's estate are kept in the special collections of the Goettingen State and University Library.
Publications
- Tyrrhenian amphorae . Studies on the history of Altatti vase painting. Seemann, Leipzig 1899 (= dissertation Munich 1898).
- Pharos, Antiquity, Islam and Occident . A contribution to the history of architecture. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1909.
- Winckelmann and his portraits . CH Beck, Munich 1918 (lecture from 1917).
- August Thiersch as an architect and researcher . Biography. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1923.
- Friedrich von Thiersch, the architect (1852–1921) . A picture of life. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1925.
- Göttingen and the ancient world . Academic bookstore Calvör / Deuerlichsche Buchhandlung, Göttingen 1926.
- Ludwig I of Bavaria and the Georgia Augusta . Biography. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1927.
- Artemis Ephesia. An archaeological investigation. 1. Catalog of the preserved monuments . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1935.
- Ependytes and Ephod . Image of God and priestly dress in the Middle East. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1936.
Remarks
- ^ Stefan Altekamp, Classical Archeology and National Socialism, in: Kulturwissenschaften und Archäologie, ed. by Jürgen Elvert and Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora, Stuttgart 2007, p. 41
literature
- Ludwig Curtius : Obituary . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1940/41 . S. 69-80 .
- Klaus Fittschen : From Wieseler to Thiersch . One hundred years of classical archeology in Göttingen. In: Carl Joachim Classen (Hrsg.): Classical Classical Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen . Göttingen 1989, p. 78-97 .
- Klaus Fittschen: Hermann Thiersch . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 183-184 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Thiersch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article on the "Lighthouse of Alexandria" with reconstruction drawings by Hermann Thiersch (PDF) (856 kB)
Franz Studniczka (1889-1896) | Otto Puchstein (1896–1905) | Hermann Thiersch (1905–1917) | Ludwig Curtius (1918–1920) | Ernst Buschor (1920–1921) | Hans Dragendorff (1921–1936) | Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt (1937–1968) | Hans Weber (1968–1980) | Volker Michael Strocka (1981-2005) | Ralf von den Hoff (since 2006)
Friedrich Wieseler (1854–1889) | Karl Dilthey (1889–1907) | Gustav Körte (1907–1917) | Hermann Thiersch (1918–1939) | Rudolf Horn (1946–1971) | Paul Zanker (1972–1976) | Klaus Fittschen (1976–1989) | Marianne Bergmann (1990 / 91–2008) | Johannes Bergemann (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiersch, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1939 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |