Otto Lüders

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Otto Lüders (born August 13, 1844 in Anholt , † November 27, 1912 in Athens ) was a German classical archaeologist and ambassador to Athens.

Life

He studied classical philology , archeology and ancient history at the University of Bonn from 1862 to 1865 . From 1862 to 1868 he was an assistant to the elderly Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker : he read to him after his blindness and published the fifth and last volume of his small writings . From 1865 to 1869 he was a member of the “Bonner Kreis” at the seminar for classical philology. Here he became acquainted with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , whom he greatly admired and with whom he became a close friend in the following years.

In 1869 he left Bonn and joined the Prussian military in Berlin. Here he convinced Wilamowitz to leave Bonn after the death of the local professor Otto Jahn and to finish his studies in Berlin. After his service in the Franco-Prussian War , Lüders succeeded Ulrich Köhler's epigraphic attaché in the Prussian embassy in Athens in 1871 . When the Athenian department of the German Archaeological Institute was founded, Lüders was appointed chairman.

Lüders accompanied Wilamowitz during his stay in Greece in 1873 and dedicated his book The Dionysian Artists (Berlin 1873) to him. In 1874, the relationship between the two suddenly cooled when Lüders married a wealthy Greek woman with ties to the royal court. Lüders was appointed royal private tutor and later rose to become German ambassador to Greece. He died on November 27, 1912 as a secret legation councilor and consul general of the German Empire.

literature

  • Obituary. In: German Archaeological Institute : Mitteilungen des DAI, Athenian Department , 37 (1912) Vff.
  • William M. Calder III (Ed.): Further Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . Verlag Weidmann, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-615-00099-4 , pp. 54-57.
  • Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871–1945 . Volume 3 (L-R), Paderborn 2000, p. 136

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personal data
SURNAME Lüders, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Anholt
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1912
Place of death Athens