Kurt Gebauer

Kurt Gebauer (born June 19, 1909 in Friedeberg am Queiss , Löwenberg district , province of Silesia , † December 18, 1942 ) was a German classical archaeologist .

After attending grammar school in Zittau, Kurt Gebauer studied first one year each in Basel and Berlin and then in Munich Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History until he graduated in 1929 . On January 31, 1935 he received his doctorate with Ernst Buschor with a thesis on the subject of the portrait of Alexander and the type of Alexander .

Then he began working on the early Attic vases from the so-called “Aegina Fund” acquired in 1936 for the Berlin Collection of Antiquities with a contract for work with Richard Eilmann . The publication appeared in 1938 as the second volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany . At the same time he began to work on the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in Kerameikos in Athens. From 1939 until his death he headed the Kerameikos excavation as an assistant at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute. Here he began excavating the state graves in front of the Dipylon . He also dealt with topographical studies in the area of Epidaurus . Basil Petrakos connects it with the disappearance of a black-figure clay pinax from the Kerameikos Museum , but according to other sources it had nothing to do with it. He was killed in a plane crash in 1942.

Fonts

Alexander portrait and type. In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Athenian Department 63/64, 1938/39, ISSN 0342-1295 , pp. 1–106.
Research in the Argolida. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1939, Sp. 268–294.
New excavations in Epidauria. In: New year books for antiquity and German education 3 = 115, 1940, ZDB -ID 217908-8 , pp. 180–188.
Excavations in Kerameikos. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1940, Sp. 308–362.
Excavation in front of the Dipylon. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1942, Sp. 203-258.
with Richard Eilmann : Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum . 7: Germany. 2: Berlin, Antiquarum. Vol. 1. CH Beck, Munich 1938.

literature

Karl Kübler : Kurt Gebauer. In: Gnomon 19, 1943, col. 287.
Gerhart Rodenwaldt : Kurt Gebauer. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1944/1945, Sp. 115–116.
Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix. In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.) Archaeologists' portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 333.
Bασίλειος X. Πετράκος: Τα αρχαία της E λλάδος κατά τον Πόλεμο 1940–1944 (= Βιβλιοθήκη της εκν Αθαναις αρχικλς γαττς εροιλρος 144). Η εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία, Αθήνα 1994, ISBN 960-7036-44-1 , p. 137.

supporting documents

↑ The fate of the Greek cultural treasures during the German occupation in World War II by Basileios Petrakos .
↑ Roland Hampe , in: Gnomon 22, 1950, p. 6 ("During a tour the sf. Pinax Inv. No. 677 was stolen") and Damage to antiquities caused by war and occupation troops (Greek), Athens 1946, P. 6.

personal data
SURNAME	Gebauer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Friedeberg am Queiss , Löwenberg district in Silesia , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1942

[1] The fate of the Greek cultural treasures during the German occupation in World War II by Basileios Petrakos .

[2] Roland Hampe , in: Gnomon 22, 1950, p. 6 ("During a tour the sf. Pinax Inv. No. 677 was stolen") and Damage to antiquities caused by war and occupation troops (Greek), Athens 1946, P. 6.