Johannes Sieveking

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Johannes Sieveking (born July 6, 1869 in Hamburg , † September 20, 1942 in Munich ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Johannes Sieveking belonged to the old Hanseatic Sieveking family , which, in addition to several mayors, had produced many professors, senators, diplomats and merchants. He studied first at the University of Bonn , then at the University of Berlin and then moved to the University of Munich , where he was Heinrich Brunn's last student . After he died, he went to the University of Erlangen with Adam Flasch , where he received his doctorate in 1894 with the book Das Füllhorn bei der Romern . He then traveled to Greece and Italy. After returning, Sieveking was briefly an assistant at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg , but then moved to the Antiquarium in Munich at Adolf Furtwängler's request . After Furtwängler's death in 1907, he took over the management of the antiquarian shop and the collection of vases, which he was able to combine and reposition in the old Pinakothek in 1919 . In 1938 he was accepted as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1942 he committed suicide.

Johannes Sieveking family grave complex in Ohlsdorf cemetery

Sieveking made a particular contribution to the Munich antique collections. In this way he rearranged the large and rich holdings of ancient cabaret, which had previously been often neglected. He restored parts by hand. With Rudolf Hackl he began to develop the collection in a series of publications in 1912, but it could not be continued because of the First World War . In particular, he published new acquisitions and smaller reports. The bronzes and terracottas of the James Loeb Collection were also published in a large four-volume publication . Thanks to Sieveking, Loeb bequeathed his collection to the Munich Collection of Antiquities. It was the largest addition to the collection since it was founded and some of it included very high-quality pieces. His main scientific research area was Roman art . He is considered one of the pioneers in this research area. He researched the Roman portrait, the relief and the architectural ornaments. Above all, he demanded an exact critique of copies. Sieveking wrote no monographs on his research, but wrote many, mostly short essays, which can be found scattered across many different journals.

Sieveking was described as modest, shy, undemanding and very withdrawn. His punctuality was proverbial. Although Munich had become his second home, which he was reluctant to leave, his essence remained Hanseatic all his life. Personal discretion was very important to him, so it was only after years of illness that his colleagues found out that Sieveking was married. He did not pursue an academic career, but was only a scientist. He never attended or gave lectures. His working day was strictly regulated. In the mornings he worked in the museum, in the afternoons in the university's archaeological seminar. Ludwig Curtius wrote in an obituary Sieveking “ realized in his own way a modern, unromantic, but horazist Romanism, not one of the triumphators and proconsuls , but one of the legates and military tribunes , without their punctual, subordinate work that follows them The world empire of our science cannot exist ”.

Fonts

  • The bronzes from the Loeb Collection , Buchholz, Munich 1913
  • Hermeneutic Relief Studies, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1920 (session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-philological and historical class, born in 1920, Abh. 11)
  • with Carl Weickert : Fifty masterpieces from the Glyptothek of King Ludwig I Paul Wolters for his 70th birthday , Obernetter, Munich 1928
  • Bronzes, terracottas, vases from the Loeb Collection , Buchholz, Munich 1930
  • A Roman tank statue in the Munich Glyptothek , de Gruyter, Berlin and Leipzig 1931 ( Winckelmann programs of the Archaeological Society of Berlin , Volume 91)

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Römische Mitteilungen 58 (1943), pp. VI – VII