Joseph Clark Hoppin

Joseph Clark Hoppin (born May 23, 1870 in Providence , Rhode Island , † January 30, 1925 in Boston ) was an American classical archaeologist .

Life

Hoppin, son of the doctor Courtland Hoppin, who died early, attended school in Stuttgart from 1878 to 1881 and then the Groton School . He graduated from Harvard University (MA 1893) and then went to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens . During this time he took part in the excavation of Charles Waldstein in the Heraion of Argos from 1894 to 1896 , where he took over the processing of the ceramics. He studied in Berlin in the summer of 1894 and continued in Munich from the autumn of 1894 , where he received his doctorate in 1896 under Adolf Furtwängler . In 1898 he began his academic career as an instructor at Wellesley College , from 1899 to 1904 he taught at Bryn Mawr College . In 1901 he donated a smaller collection of vases to the college. In 1904/05 he was a visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and from 1917 to 1919 he helped out again as a professor in Bryn Mawr. In 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1910 he and Richard Norton dug in Cyrene ( Libya ). He died of cancer of the jaw after a long illness .

From his studies on, he was mainly interested in researching Greek vase painting and so his dissertation dealt with the vase painter Euthymides . Hoppin wrote two manuals on Greek vase painting that have been in use for a long time. With Albert Gallatin he published the first volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for the USA. He himself put together an important collection of vases, which after his death in 1925 went to the Fogg Art Museum (now in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum , both part of the Harvard University Art Museums ). An Apulian vase painter , the Hoppin painter , was named after him.

Publications (selection)

• Euthymides . Dissertation Munich 1896 (with curriculum vitae) ( digitized ).
• Euthymides and his fellows . Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1917 ( digitized version ).
• A handbook of Attic red-figured vases, signed by or attributed to the various masters of the 6th and 5th centuries BC Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1919 (Digitalisat Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 ).
• A handbook of Greek black-figured vases, with a chapter on the red figured southern Italian vases . E. Champion, Paris 1924.
• with Albert Gallatin: Corpus vasorum antiquorum. United States of America. Fasc. 1: Hoppin and Gallatin collections . Paris 1926.

literature

• George Henry Chase : Joseph Clark Hoppin 1870–1925 . In: American Journal of Archeology 29, 1925, pp. 1-2.

Web links

• Joseph Clark Hoppin in the Dictionary of Art Historians

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mary Hamilton Swindler: The Bryn Mawr Collection of Greek Vases . In: American Journal of Archeology 20, 1916, pp. 308-345; Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin May 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .