Kurt Regling

Kurt Ludwig Regling (born November 8, 1876 in Berlin ; † August 10, 1935 there ) was a German numismatist who primarily researched ancient coinage.

Life

Kurt Regling attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin from 1886 to 1895 . From 1895 to 1899 he studied at the Berlin University with the help of an Imhoof-Blumer scholarship . In 1899 Dr. phil. with the font De belli Parthici Crassiani fontibus . From 1899 he was initially a volunteer, from 1899 a research assistant, from 1902 assistant director, from 1919 curator at the Berlin Münzkabinett . In 1921 he became director of the collection, which he remained until his death. Regling completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin in 1907. Since that time Regling has taught as a private lecturer in coin studies at the Berlin University, and since 1921 as an honorary professor .

Regling's main research area was ancient numismatics, as well as Renaissance medal art . Regling viewed the coins primarily as works of art in their own right. Among other things, he worked on the Academy Project Greek Mint of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , where he published the volume Dacien and Moesien with Behrendt Pick . He received the Archer M. Huntington Medal in 1929 and the Royal Numismatic Society Medal in 1933 . The Kurt Regling Medal was donated in his honor .

Publications (selection)

• The Greek coins in the Warren Collection. 2 volumes. Reimer, Berlin 1906, (digital copies : text volume , table volume ).
• Terina (= program for the Winckelmann Festival of the Archaeological Society in Berlin . 66). Reimer, Berlin 1906, ( digitized version ).
• with Behrendt Pick : The coins of Odessos and Tomis (= The ancient coins of Northern Greece . Vol. 1: The ancient coins of Dacien and Moesien. Half- vol . 2, Section 1). Reimer, Berlin 1910.
• Roman denar find from Fröndenberg. In: Journal of Numismatics . Vol. 29, 1912, pp. 189-253 .
• as editor with Hermann Reich (ed.): Festschrift on CF Lehmann-Haupt's sixtieth birthday (= Janus. 1, ZDB -ID 847139-3 ). Braumüller, Vienna et al. 1921.
• The ancient coin as a work of art. Schoetz & Parrhysius, Berlin 1924.
• The coins of Priene. Schoetz, Berlin 1927.
• The Greek gold treasure of Prinkipo. Istanbul Museum of Antiquities. In: Journal of Numismatics. Vol. 41, 1931, pp. 1-46 .

In addition, numerous articles and reviews in various specialist journals.

literature

• Philipp Lederer : Kurt Regling †. In: German coin sheets. Vol. 54/54 = New Series Vol. 11, 1934/1935, ISSN  0932-2302 , pp. 405-408.
• Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 5th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1935, Sp. 1085.
• Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt : Kurt Regling. In: Klio . Vol. 28, 1935, pp. 350-352, doi : 10.1524 / klio.1935.28.28.348 .
• Arthur Suhle : Kurt Regling †. In: Berlin museums. Vol. 56, H. 4, 1935, ISSN  0934-3911 , pp. 76-79, JSTOR 4237894 .
• 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.
• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 8: Plett - Schmidseder. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1998, ISBN 3-598-23168-7 , p. 187.
• Bernd Kluge : The coin cabinet. Museum and Science Institute. Berlin, Münzkabinett 2004, (with picture) ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.1 MB).

Web links

Wikisource: Kurt Regling  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Kurt Regling in the catalog of the German National Library