Horst Blanck

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Horst Blanck (born November 14, 1936 in Krefeld , † March 31, 2010 in Cerveteri ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Horst Blanck studied Classical Archeology , Ancient History , Classical Philology and Prehistory and Early History at the University of Cologne . There he was in 1963 Tobias Dohrn with the dissertation reuse of old statues as honorary monuments in Greek and Roman doctorate . In 1964/65 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He then completed his training as a scientific librarian and was head of the library of the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute until his retirement in 2001 . After that Horst Blanck lived in Cerveteri near Rome. He was married to the archaeologist Fritzi Jurgeit Blanck .

His main areas of research were Etruscology and the history of classical archeology.

Publications

  • Reuse of old statues as memorials by Greeks and Romans. Dissertation, Cologne 1963.
    • Print edition: Reuse of old statues as memorials among Greeks and Romans (= Studia archaeologica 11). L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1969.
  • Introduction to the private life of the Greeks and Romans (= Ancient Studies. Introductions to the subject, methods and results of their sub-disciplines and auxiliary sciences ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1976, 2nd edition 1996.
  • The library of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (= The German Archaeological Institute. History and Documents Vol. 7). Von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 978-3-8053-0400-9 .
  • with Giuseppe Proietti: La Tomba dei Rilievi di Cerveteri. de Luca Editore, Rome 1986.
  • with Cornelia Weber-Lehmann : Painting of the Etruscans in drawings of the 19th century. Von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 978-3-8053-0944-8 .
  • The book in antiquity (= Beck's archaeological library ). CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-406-36686-4 .
  • with Stephan Steingräber : Volterra (= Ancient World , special issue; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ). Von Zabern, Mainz 2002.

literature

  • Thomas Fröhlich : Horst Blanck (November 14, 1936 Krefeld - March 31, 2010 Cerveteri). In: Minima epigraphica et papyrologica 12-15, 2009-2012, pp. 359-364.
  • Henner von Hesberg : Horst Blanck November 14, 1936 - March 31, 2010. In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department 116, 2010, pp. 13-20.

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personal data
SURNAME Blanck, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2010
Place of death Cerveteri