Langdon Warner

Langdon Warner (born August 1, 1881 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † June 9, 1955 ) was an American art historian , archaeologist and Harvard professor. He is one of the role models for Steven Spielberg's film character Indiana Jones .

Live and act

As a research agent in the early 20th century, he explored the Silk Road and served in the US Army's Antiquities Division, after World War II in the Arts and Monuments Section, GHQ of the Supreme Commander, Allied Powers of Japan. He was a curator of oriental art at the Fogg Museum of Art .

It is his credit that he stood up for the Roberts Commission against the use of incendiary and atomic bombs on Kyoto , Nara and other ancient cities to protect the cultural heritage of Japan.

For this reason, monuments were erected in his honor in Kyōto and Kamakura (outside the Kamakura JR station).

He traveled the Gobi desert in search of works of art. He removed some of the frescoes in the Dunhuang Caves .

He wrote an important monograph on the Buddhist murals of a grotto discovered by Aurel Stein in 1907, the ninth-century grotto of the Yulin Caves (榆林窟 Yulin ku) in Guazhou County (瓜州县 Guāzhōu Xiàn) of Gansu Province , which was earlier than District Anxi (安西县 Anxi xian) was designated.

In 1927 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

The Long Old Road in China . 1926
The Craft of the Japanese Sculptor . 1936
Buddhist Wall-Paintings: A Study of a Ninth-Century Grotto at Wan Fo Hsia . 1938
The Enduring Art of Japan . 1952
Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period: Masterpieces of the Eighth Century . 1959

literature

Theodore Robert Bowie (Ed.): Langdon Warner through his letters. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1966 (Indiana University Humanities Series; 62)
Peter Hopkirk : The Silk Road. In search of lost treasure in Chinese Central Asia. rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-499-18564-4 .

Web links

Footnotes

↑ Langdon Warner's dates of birth. Retrieved October 10, 2016
↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ The caves are sometimes also referred to as Wanfo Xia caves, whereby “Ten Thousand Buddha Gorge” (Wànfó xiá 万佛峡) is to be understood as a colloquial place.

personal data
SURNAME	Warner, Langdon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American art historian, archaeologist, and Harvard professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1955
Place of death	Cambridge , Massachusetts

[1] Langdon Warner's dates of birth. Retrieved October 10, 2016

[2] Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] The caves are sometimes also referred to as Wanfo Xia caves, whereby “Ten Thousand Buddha Gorge” (Wànfó xiá 万佛峡) is to be understood as a colloquial place.