Ludwig Budde

Ludwig Budde (born September 10, 1913 in Werne , † March 31, 2007 in Münster ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1933, he studied classical archeology , art history and classical philology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . With a doctoral thesis with Gerhart Rodenwaldt , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Berlin and at the German Archaeological Institute . Due to the outbreak of war, he was unable to take up the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute awarded to him for 1939/40 . From 1939 to 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht .

From 1945 he worked at the University of Münster, where he completed his habilitation in 1947 . In 1962 he became an associate professor , and in 1963 he became a scientific adviser and professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology in Münster. In 1975 he retired.

From 1951 to 1954 he dug in Sinope with Ekrem Akurgal . From 1955 to 1958 he and Helmuth Theodor Bossert explored an early Byzantine church with mosaics in Mopsuestia . From 1972 he excavated an early Byzantine church in Aphrodisias (Cilicia) .

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (November 21, 1986)
• Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (November 3, 1994)

literature

• Bertram Haller (ed.): Longing for the Orient. Picture cycles of the Ottoman Empire around 1840. Booklet to the exhibition of the University and State Library Münster from January 20 to February 10, 2006 on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the German-Turkish Society Münster from 1916 e. V. , Münster 2006 (with curriculum vitae and list of publications)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Budde in the catalog of the German National Library
• Honoring the university on its 90th birthday ( memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Appreciation of the university on the occasion of his death, with picture ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Ludwig Budde collection in the University and State Library of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The Attic Kouroi .
2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Studies on Italian vase painting .
3. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
4. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .