Klaus Werner Schede

Klaus Werner Schede (born August 4, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † September 10, 1939 near Walewice, east-west of Piątek ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Klaus Werner Schede was a nephew of Martin Schede . In 1933 he took part in the excavations in Boğazköy ( Hattuša ) as a volunteer under Kurt Bittel , and then studied classical archeology. Shortly before the start of the Second World War, he received his doctorate from Bernhard Schweitzer at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on sculpted bases . He fell as one of the youngest archaeologists in the early days of the war. It rests in the Puławy military cemetery .

In 1950 Herbert von Buttlar dedicated his essay Antike Plastik und Plastik der Gegenwart in Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft Volume 15, 1949/50, pp. 251-272, also in the Scientific Journal Volume 3 (1953) of the University of Greifswald , Schede and Walther Reichel and an article dedicated to Karl Steimer. In 1953 Schweitzer, supported by the German Archaeological Institute , carried out a study trip to work on Schede's estate.

literature

• Bernhard Schweitzer: On the art of antiquity , Vol. 2, Tübingen 1963, p. 115.
• Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 333 (incorrectly referred to there as the son of Martin Schede).
• Kurt Bittel: Travels and excavations in Egypt, Asia Minor, Bulgaria and Greece 1930-1934 , Stuttgart 1988, p. 386. 398. 405. 409 Fig. 14 (picture)