Karl Kübler (archaeologist)

Karl Kübler (born July 4, 1897 in Simmersfeld near Nagold , † May 10, 1990 in Tübingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Kübler attended high school in Tübingen and, after graduating from high school in 1915, initially studied architecture in Stuttgart , a. a. with Ernst Robert Fiechter . After a short time he became a soldier in the First World War and was seriously injured in 1917, which also led to a reduction in his eyesight. He then studied classical archeology at the University of Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1925 under Carl Watzinger . In 1927/28 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

From 1927 he took part in the German excavations in Kerameikos in Athens , led by Alfred Brueckner , and led them from 1932. From May 23, 1937, he was, initially acting, and finally, from December 17, 1937, 2nd Secretary (Director) of the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute . In this function he was able to continue the excavations in Kerameikos until 1943, when he left Athens due to the war. In 1943 he received his habilitation at the University of Tübingen, but never taught and had to do service in the Second World War from 1943 to 1945 . After the war he devoted himself entirely to the processing and publication of his excavations in the early necropolis of Kerameikos at the Archaeological Institute in Tübingen .

Publications

• Dionysian pictures in painting of the 2nd half of the 5th and 4th centuries, their aftermath and further training in later ancient art , Tübingen 1925 (= dissertation)
• with Wilhelm Kraiker : The necropolises of the 12th to 10th centuries , Kerameikos 1, Berlin 1939.
• New finds from the necropolis of the 11th and 10th centuries , Kerameikos 4, Berlin 1943.
• Altatti painting , Tübingen 1950.
• The necropolis of the 10th to 8th centuries , Kerameikos 5, 1, Berlin 1954.
• The necropolis of the late 8th to early 6th centuries , Kerameikos 6, 1–2, Berlin 1959 and 1970.
• The necropolis from the middle of the 6th to the end of the 5th century , Kerameikos 7, 1, Berlin 1974.

literature

• Helmut Kyrieleis : Athens Department , in Contributions to the History of the German Archaeological Institute 1929 to 1979 , Mainz 1979, p. 46. 48. 50 Plates 4, 2 (picture)
• Ulf Jantzen : One Hundred Years of Athens Institute 1874-1974 , Mainz 1986, p. 51
• Wolfgang Schiering : Karl Kübler , in: Gnomon Vol. 63, 1991, pp. 380-383.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Kübler in the catalog of the German National Library