Julius Braun (art historian)

Julius Braun (born July 16, 1825 in Karlsruhe , † July 22, 1869 in Munich ) was a German art historian and university professor .

Life

Braun received his first training in the house of a church councilor in Bähr. He then visited the Karlsruhe Lyceum before from 1843 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin first Protestant Theology studied, then philology and art history. During his studies he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Alemannia in 1844 and of the Teutonia Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1845 . One of his academic teachers was Eduard Maximilian Röth . In 1848 he passed the teaching examination in Karlsruhe and then went on extensive trips. From 1850 to 1853 he traveled via Egypt , Syria , Greece and Italy to France and England .

Braun completed his habilitation in 1853 at Heidelberg University and then taught there as a private lecturer . In 1860 he followed a call to an extraordinary professorship at the University of Tübingen . After Conrad Bursian was appointed to the chair of archeology instead of Braun, he moved from Tübingen to Munich after just one semester. There he gave lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts , but he did not get a job there. He traveled to Rome again in 1865. In July 1869 he fell ill with meningitis , from which he died shortly afterwards. His two-volume natural history of the legend was considered his main work.

Braun was married to the writer Rosalie Braun-Artaria from 1860 .

Publications (selection)

• Studies and sketches from the countries of the ancient culture. Fourteen lectures . Bassermann & Mathyn, Mannheim 1854.
• History of art: evidenced in its course of development through all the peoples of the ancient world on the basis of local history . 2 volumes, Kreidel and Niedner, Wiesbaden 1856–1858.
  • Volume 1: The Nile valley and Mesopotamia (Babylon and Nineveh) with the minor countries ... .
  • Volume 2: Asia Minor and the Hellenic World .
• Rhodes, Crete and Mycenae. Especially reprinted from the second volume of J. Braun's Geschichte der Kunst. Leske, Darmstadt 1858.
• Natural history of legend . 2 volumes, Bruckmann, Munich 1864–1865.
• Historical landscapes , Cotta, Stuttgart 1867.
• Painting of the Muslim world . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870.

literature

• Karl Ludwig Urlichs :  Braun, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 268 f.
• Braun, Julius . In: Hans-Michael Körner : Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / New York 2005, p. 221.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 89-90.

Web links

• Works by and about Julius Braun  in the German Digital Library
• Braun's grave in the Old Munich North Cemetery