Josef Dell

Hermann Josef Wilhelm Dell (born June 9, 1859 in Vienna , † September 5, 1945 in Brno ) was an Austrian architect, building researcher and professor at the German Technical University in Brno .

Life

Josef Dell attended the Oberrealschule in Vienna, then the Technical University, the architecture school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, then the universities in Prague and Vienna , where he wrote his dissertation in architecture and archeology. In 1890, Dell was appointed professor for construction and mathematics at the higher trade school in Czernowitz . In 1905 he became a full professor at the German Technical University in Brno, was dean of the architecture school and head of the archaeological department. He remained in the teaching post until 1937. Dell was unmarried.

For several years he took part in the Austrian excavations in Ephesus . He also later made archaeological studies in Arabia, Greece, Haifa and Jerusalem, where he mainly dealt with the reconstruction of Greek buildings from ancient times. He researched the construction methods used in antiquity and the mathematical-geometric calculations of ancient monuments.

Publications

• Finds from Carnuntum II. The Solabründl from Deutsch-Altenburg. In: Archaeological-epigraphic messages from Austria-Hungary 18, 1895, pp. 202–207 ( digitized version ).
• The Lysicrates Monument in Athens. A problem of architectural history. In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung 67, 1902, 1, pp. 31–38.
• The Erechtheion in Athens. Examined, explained and supplemented by construction analysis. Brno, Prague, Leipzig, Vienna 1934 ( digitized version ).