Josef Fink (archaeologist)

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Josef Fink (born March 1, 1912 in Bottrop , † October 25, 1984 in Rome ) was a German classical and Christian archaeologist .

Fink studied classical archeology, classical philology, history and German at the universities of Heidelberg , Athens , Berlin and Munich . In 1938 he received his doctorate from Ernst Buschor with the dissertation The Hairstyle of the Greeks in the first half of the first millennium BC . Then he was briefly until his military service 1939-1945 assistant to Gerhart Rodenwaldt at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Berlin . After 1945 he became an assistant at the University of Münster , where he also held Latin courses from 1949. In 1951 he was with the habilitation Noe the righteous in the early Christian art habilitated in Classical Archeology. In 1958 he became an adjunct professor , and in 1962 he became a scientific councilor and professor for classical archeology with a special focus on late antiquity. He retired in 1977 and then taught as a lecturer, since 1982 as an honorary professor at the University of Salzburg . His main research area was the Roman catacombs .

literature

  • Dieter Ahrens (Ed.): ΘΙΑΣΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΜΟΥΣΩΝ. Studies on antiquity and Christianity, Festschrift Josef Fink for his 70th birthday. Cologne / Vienna 1984 (with curriculum vitae and list of publications).
  • Early Christian art was his research. Archaeologist Prof. Josef Fink died in Rome. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . November 13, 1984.

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