List of classical archaeologists at the Humboldt University in Berlin

In the list of classical archaeologists at the Humboldt University of Berlin , all university teachers are collected, which at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University and its successor, the Humboldt University of Berlin , Classical Archeology taught. As a rule, this includes all regular university professors who were allowed to give lectures, i.e. who had completed their habilitation .

The subject was taught from the beginning of the Berlin University, but initially still belonged to the canons of art history and classical philology . This is one of the reasons why some scientists are included in the list who were not classical archaeologists but were active in neighboring disciplines, but gave archaeological events.

Classical archeology was established as an independent subject in 1851 with the establishment of the "Archaeological Apparatus" by Eduard Gerhard . In Berlin there has always been a close connection between the university and the Antikensammlung . Eduard Gerhard, Ernst Curtius and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz were both director of the museums and professor at the university. Further connections existed with the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . Many scientists from the museum and academy worked as professors or honorary lecturers at the university. It was only under Georg Loeschcke in 1912 that the university and museum offices were separated and an independent archaeological seminar was set up. Under Gerhart Rodenwaldt , it was named " Winckelmann Institute " in 1941 .

After the Second World War, Classical Archeology was continued at the Humboldt University, but Friedrich Wilhelm Goethert and Gerhard Kleiner left the University in 1948 and founded Classical Archeology at the Free University of Berlin . The pre-war library came to the Free University in 1948. Ludger Alscher was appointed to the Humboldt University in 1951 . Classical archeology quickly lost its importance in the GDR and at Berlin University. In the end, the research was mainly carried out by the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology . The institute very quickly lost a large part of its premises to other departments. It was only after the political change in 1989 that the institute could begin to expand again and many of the old premises, including the teaching collection, were regained. Since 1995 there have been two professorships.

The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows the entry into the university, and the third column shows the departure. Column four names the highest position achieved at Berlin University. At other universities, the lecturer may have made an advanced academic career. The next column lists special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or institute. The last column shows pictures of the lecturers.

scientist	from	to	Functions	Remarks	image
Aloys Hirt (1759-1837)	1810	1837	Full professor	Full professor of art and archeology
Wilhelm Uhden (1763-1835)	1813	1826	Academician reading	Ministerial official; Reading academician for Italian literature and archeology
Ernst Heinrich Toelken (1785–1864)	1814	1864	Full professor	1814 private lecturer, 1816 associate professor, 1823 full professor of art history and archeology
Theodor Panofka (1800-1858)	1827	1858	Associate professor	1827 private lecturer, 1837 reading academician , 1848 associate professor for archeology
Julius Ambrosch (1804-1856)	1834	1834	Private lecturer	Classical philologist, archaeologist; 1834 Privatdozent for Classical Philology
Adolf Schöll (1805–1881)	1834	1839	Private lecturer	1834 private lecturer in archeology
Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867)	1835	1867	Full professor	Academician reading in 1835 , associate professor in 1843, full professor of archeology in 1844
Ernst Curtius (1814-1896)	1843	1896	Full professor	1843 Privatdozent, 1844–1856 Associate Professor, 1868 Full Professor of Archeology
Karl Boetticher (1806-1889)	1854	1863	Private lecturer in archeology
Heinrich Kiepert (1818–1899)	1854	1899	Full professor	Historical geographer; 1854 Academician Reading , 1859 Associate Professor, 1874 Full Professor of Geography; taught geography and ethnology of the Old World
Carl Friederichs (1831–1871)	1859	1871	Associate professor	Museum curator; 1859 Associate Professor of Archeology
Emil Hübner (1834–1901)	1859	1901	Full professor	Classical philologist and epigraphist; 1859 private lecturer, 1863 associate professor, 1870 full professor of classical philology
Richard Schöne (1840–1922)	1868	1869	Private lecturer	1868 private lecturer in archeology
Heinrich Heydemann (1842-1889)	1869	1874	Private lecturer	1869 private lecturer in archeology
Friedrich Matz (1843–1874)	1873	1874	associate professor	1873 associate professor for archeology
Georg Treu (1843–1921)	1875	1882	Private lecturer	1875 private lecturer in art history
Carl Robert (1850-1922)	1876	1890	Full professor	1876 ​​private lecturer, 1877 associate professor, 1880 full professor of archeology
Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907)	1880	1894	Associate professor	Museum curator; 1880 private lecturer, 1884 associate professor for archeology
August Kalkmann (1853–1905)	1885	1905	Associate professor	1885 private lecturer, 1900 associate professor for archeology
Ernst Fabricius (1857–1942)	1886	1888	Private lecturer	1886 Privatdozent for Classical Philology and Archeology
Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz (1839–1911)	1889	1911	Full professor	1889 Honorary Professor, 1890 Full Professor of Archeology, Director of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities
Otto Puchstein (1856–1911)	1890	1896	Private lecturer	1890 private lecturer in archeology
Botho Graef (1857-1917)	1890	1904	Private lecturer	1890 private lecturer in archeology
Friedrich Koepp (1860–1944)	1892	1896	Private lecturer	1892 private lecturer in archeology
Franz Winter (1861–1930)	1894	1899	Associate professor	Museum curator; 1894 private lecturer, 1897 associate professor for archeology
Erich Pernice (1864–1945)	1895	1903	Private lecturer	Museum curator; 1895 private lecturer in archeology
Hermann Winnefeld (1862-1918)	1897	1918	Private lecturer	Museum curator; 1897 private lecturer in archeology; Lecturer in museum studies
Richard Delbrueck (1875–1957)	1903	1911	Private lecturer	1903 private lecturer in archeology
Carl Watzinger (1877-1948)	1904	1905	Private lecturer	Museum curator; 1904 private lecturer in archeology
Erich Preuner (1867–1935)	1906	1934	Associate professor	Associate Professor of Archeology
Kurt Regling (1876-1935)	1907	1935	Honorary professor	Numismatist, museum curator; 1907 private lecturer, 1921 honorary professor for coinage
August Frickenhaus (1882–1925)	1911	1913	Private lecturer	1911 private lecturer in archeology
Gerhart Rodenwaldt (1886–1945)	1912	1945	Full professor	1912–1916 private lecturer; 1922 honorary professor, 1932 full professor of archeology
Georg Loeschcke (1852-1915)	1912	1915	Full professor	1912 Full Professor of Archeology
Margarete Bieber (1879–1978)	1915	1916	Substitute professor	1915 replacement of assistant, 1915–1916 replacement of professorship
Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941)	1916	1922	Academician reading	1916 Academician reading ; 1911–1922 Secretary General of the German Archaeological Institute
Ferdinand Noack (1868–1931)	1916	1931	Full professor	1916 Full Professor of Archeology
Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen (1864–1947)	1917	1929	Honorary professor	Epigraphist; 1917 honorary professor for archeology and epigraphy
Valentin Müller (1889-1945)	1923	1931	Associate professor	1923 Privatdozent, 1929 Associate Professor of Archeology
Robert Zahn (1870–1945)	1928	1936	Honorary professor	Museum curator; 1928 honorary professor for archeology
Friedrich Matz (1890–1974)	1928	1934	Private lecturer	1928 private lecturer in archeology
Willy Zschietzschmann (1900–1976)	1932	1937	Private lecturer	1932 private lecturer in archeology
Günther Klaffenbach (1890–1972)	1935	1955	professor	Epigraphist; 1935 honorary professor for archeology and epigraphy, 1946 professor with teaching assignment
Josef Liegle (1893–1945)	1936	1945	Lecturer	Museum curator; 1936 teaching position for old numismatics
Hans Schleif (1902–1945)	1937	1945	Associate professor	Building researcher; 1937 lecturer, 1938 associate professor for archeology
Armin von Gerkan (1884–1969)	1937	1945	Honorary professor	Building researcher; 1937 honorary professor for architectural, art and cultural history; did not read because he lived in Rome as the first director of the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute
Max Wegner (1902–1998)	1939	1942	Private lecturer	1939 private lecturer in archeology
Friedrich Wilhelm Goethert (1907–1978)	1940	1948	professor	1940 lecturer, 1946 professor with teaching assignment, since 1948 at the Free University of Berlin
Albert Ippel (1885-1960)	1940	1945	Honorary professor	1940 honorary professor for archeology
Ulrich Hausmann (1917–1996)	1943	1951	Senior assistant	1943 war replacement of an assistant; Senior assistant
Martin Schede (1883-1947)	1943	1945	Honorary professor	1943 honorary professor of archeology; 1938 to 1945 President of the German Archaeological Institute
Hans von Schoenebeck (1904–1944)	1943	1944	Lecturer	1943 lecturer in archeology
Carl Weickert (1885–1975)	1946	1950	professor	1946 professor with teaching position; previously head of the Staatliche Antikensammlung in Munich, then of the Antikensammlung Berlin; after 1945 also president of the DAI and chairman of the Berlin Archaeological Society
Ludger Alscher (1916–1985)	1951	1982	Full professor	Full professor, head of institute in 1951, head of department in 1968
Wolfgang Schindler (1929–1991)	1954	1991	Full professor	1954 research assistant and senior assistant, 1973 lecturer, 1982 head of the science department and later of the institute, 1983 full professor
Detlef Rößler (1942–2013)	1968	2008	C-3 professor	1968 to 1973 and since 1987 research assistant, 1994 to 2007 C3 professor, thereafter until 2008 visiting professor; Managing Director of the Winckelmann Institute 1991 to 1995 (provisional) and 2004 to 2008
Veit Striker (1957-2013)	1990	2013	scientific Assistant	1990 lecturer, 1992 executive assistant, 1995 curator of the collections of the Winckelmann Institute, taught in the Collaborative Research Center Minoan-Mycenaean archeology
Detlev Kreikenbom (* 1951)	1991	1997	Visiting professor	first lecturer, later visiting professor
Henning Wrede (* 1939)	1994	2007	Full professor	1994 substitute for a C-4 professorship, 1995 C-4 professor and managing director at the Winckelmann Institute, 2006 substitute for a C-4 professorship
Stefan Altekamp (* 1959)	1995		Private lecturer	1995 research assistant, 1998 private lecturer
Alfred Schäfer (* 1963)	1996	2007	Private lecturer	1996 research assistant, 2002 research assistant, 2004 private lecturer, 2006 visiting professor
Gerhard Zimmer (* 1949)	1997	1999	Honorary professor
Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner (* 1938)	1999	201?	Honorary professor	1999 lecturer, 2001 honorary professor
Axel Gering	2006		Special professor	2006 research associate, 2007 private lecturer, 20 ?? Special professor
Luca Giuliani (* 1950)	2007	2015	Special professor
Stephan G. Schmid (* 1967)	2008		professor	W3 professor
Susanne Muth (* 1967)	2008		Professor	W3 professor
Volker Kästner (* 1949)	20 ??		Honorary professor	Curator at the Antikensammlung Berlin
Bernhard Weisser (* 1964)	2009		Honorary professor	Numismatist, director of the Berlin Coin Cabinet
Charlotte Schreiter	2010		Private lecturer
Agnes Henning	2015		Custodian	Kostodin of the institute collection, succeeding Veit Stürmer
Alexander Herda	2016		Private lecturer

Visiting professors

• 1992–1995: Detlev Kreikenbom
• 2006–2008: Dagmar Grassinger
• 2009–2010: Franz Alto Bauer
• 2009–2011: Othmar Jäggi
• 2010–2011: Eva Winter

Substitute professors

• 2015: Zbigniew Fiema

literature

• Johannes Asen : Complete directory of the teaching staff of the University of Berlin, Volume 1: 1810–1945. The Friedrich Wilhelms University, the University of Veterinary Medicine, the Agricultural University, the Forest University . Leipzig 1955
• Friedrich Matz : Archeology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from the establishment of the Empire to 1945 . In: Hans Leussink , Eduard Neumann , Georg Kotowski (eds.): Studium Berolinense. Essays and contributions to problems of science and the history of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Berlin 1960, pp. 581-613.
• Adolf Borbein : Classical archeology in Berlin from the 18th to the 20th century , in: Willmuth Arenhövel, Christa Schreiber (Hrsg.): Berlin and the ancient world. Essays. Architecture, applied arts, painting, sculpture, theater and science from the 16th century to the present day . Berlin 1979, pp. 99-150.
• Veit Stürmer , Henning Wrede : A museum on hold. The cast collection of ancient sculptures . Berlin 1998

Web links

• History of the Winckelmann Institute
• Current employees of the Winckelmann Institute at the HUB