Karl Frederik Kinch

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Karl Frederik Kinch (born March 15, 1853 in Ribe ; died August 26, 1921 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish classical philologist and classical archaeologist .

Karl Frederik Kinch, son of the historian Jakob Frederik Kinch (1817–1888) and his wife Bertine N. Kroyer (1825–1863), studied classical philology at the University of Copenhagen from 1870 and passed his exams for cand. Mag. from. During his studies he worked as a private tutor in Paris and Copenhagen. In Copenhagen it was in 1883 with the text-critical study Quaestiones Curtianae criticae over the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus doctorate .

He then traveled to Greece from 1883 to 1885. Inspired by the impressions of his trip, he turned to archeology in his scientific work and in the following years traveled again to Greece and Macedonia , especially the Chalkidike . There he devoted himself to the previously poorly researched ancient topography. In 1890 he published a monograph of the results of his extensive studies, which was dedicated to the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki . This was followed by smaller travel reports and individual contributions, for example to one of the large Macedonian chamber tombs of Lefkadia near Naoussa (near ancient Mieza ), which is now called "Kinch's grave" after its discoverer (Lefkadia II). During this time he was also interested in numismatics .

After returning to Denmark, he worked as a teacher in Copenhagen from 1895. In the years from 1902 to 1905 and 1914 he led the Danish excavations of the Carlsberg Foundation in Lindos on Rhodes together with Christian Blinkenberg, who was ten years his junior, and thus opened up a field of activity that took up a large part of his scientific work. After the provisional completion of the excavations in Lindos in 1905, Kinch devoted himself to the excavation of a small Greek colony founded in the 6th century BC. In Vroulia on Rhodes. He presented the results in 1914 in the Fouilles de Vroulia .

The beginning of the First World War ended his research in Greece and he returned to Denmark as a teacher, where he had to divide his strength between teaching and processing the excavation results of Lindos. He did not live to see its final publication. After the death of Kinch, Blinkenberg put the results of the excavations, in particular the discovery of the Lindos temple chronicle, in two volumes of the Lindos in both names . Foullies et reserches, 1902-1914 . A third volume appeared in 1961.

In 1913 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences made Kinch a full member.

Karl Frederik Kinch married Helvig Agnete Amsinck (1872–1956) in 1903, who supported him in his research ventures on Rhodes and with whom he published the results of Vroulia.

Fonts (selection)

  • Quaestiones Curtianae criticae. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1883.
  • L'arc de triomphe de Salonique. Librairie Nilsson, Paris 1890.
  • with Helvig Kinch: Fouilles de Vroulia (Rhodes). G. Reimer, Berlin 1914.
  • with Christian Blinkenberg : Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 1: Les petits objets. De Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • with Christian Blinkenberg: Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 2: Inscriptions. De Gruyter, Berlin 1941.
  • with Christian Blinkenberg, edited by Ejnar Dyggve : Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 3: Le sanctuaire d'Athana Lindia et l'architecture lindenne. De Gruyter, Berlin 1960.

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SURNAME Kinch, Karl Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish classical philologist and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribe
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1921
Place of death Copenhagen