Paul Wolters (archaeologist)

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Paul Heinrich August Wolters (born September 1, 1858 in Bonn , † October 21, 1936 in Munich ) was a German classical archaeologist .

life and work

After his father Albrecht Wolters was transferred from Bonn to Halle an der Saale in 1874 , he first studied philology at the University of Halle , and from 1880 to 1882 classical archeology in Bonn and Strasbourg . At the University of Bonn Wolters was with the thesis "De Graecorum epigrammatum anthologiis" doctorate .

Wolters began his professional career as an "unskilled worker" (today, for example: research assistant) at the Royal Museum in Berlin . From 1885 to 1887 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and took part in excavations in Italy , Greece and Asia Minor . From 1887 to 1900 he was the second secretary of the Athens department of the DAI alongside Wilhelm Dörpfeld . Wolters carried out excavations in Aegina Kolonna a second time with Gabriel Welter in 1924 . He also led the excavations of the Kabirion near Thebes , a rural sanctuary with a temple and theater.

In 1900 Wolters came back to Germany. He became professor of classical archeology at the University of Würzburg and at the same time head of the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg , where he reorganized the picture gallery and set up a branch gallery of the Munich Neue Pinakothek.

From 1908 to 1935 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Munich as the successor to Adolf Furtwängler and, in this role, also director of the Museum for Casts of Classical Works , the Antiquarium and the Glyptothek in Munich . He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences .

The peculiarity of his learned nature was that, despite the most comprehensive knowledge, it did not lead him to larger overall representations on its own, but rather let him start from the individual question or the individual monument, from penetrating, loving individual observation, from devotion to the little things. Feeling that this was his strength, but also a weakness that was deeply rooted in his human nature. Paul Wolters was buried in the old cemetery in Bonn. Paul Wolters' estate is in the Bavarian State Library in Munich and in the DAI in Berlin.

Awards and titles

Memberships

  • 1886: Corresponding member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute
  • 1887: Full member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute
  • 1888: Member of the Archaeological Society in Athens
  • 1896: Honorary member of the Society for the Performance of Greek Ancient Dramas.
  • 1897: Corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy
  • 1899: Honorary member of the Société Archéologique d'Alexandrie
  • 1899: Institute member abroad of the KK Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna
  • 1900: Honorary member of the Archaeological Society in Athens
  • 1903: Corresponding member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1908: Full member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  • 1909: Member of the Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), also Mg. Of the Select Committee of the Central Directorate
  • 1924: Corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • 1933: Foreign member of the Athens Academy
  • Honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Publications (selection)

  • De epigrammatum graecorum anthologiis , dissertation Bonn 1882
  • The plaster casts of ancient sculptures explained in historical order. Building blocks for the history of Greco-Roman sculpture 'Royal Museums in Berlin . From Carl Friederichs. Revised by Paul Wolters. Berlin 1885
  • The west gable of the Olympic Temple of Zeus , Munich 1908 (session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class 1908, 7)
  • The art of antiquity ( Handbook of Art History 1) , by Anton Springer . Arranged by Paul Wolters. 9-12 Edition. Leipzig 1910–1922
  • Guide through the K. Glyptothek in Munich , Munich 1911. 1916. 1922. 1928. 1935
  • Aeginetic Contributions I-III ; Presented on May 7, 1910 and June 8, 1912, Munich 1912 (session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class 1912, 5)
  • The winged seer , Munich 1928 (session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Philological and Historical Class 1928, 1)
  • Die Tafel von Tarragona , Munich 1930 (session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Department 1930, 6)
  • The Kabiren shrine near Thebes , edited by Paul Wolters with the help of several specialists; completed by Gerda Bruns . Berlin 1940 (The Kabiren Shrine at Thebes 1)

literature

  • Festschrift for Paul Wolters 70th birthday, dedicated by the Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts. Munich 1928. [Special edition of: Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst. NF 5, 1928, No. 3]
  • Heinrich Bulle : Paul Wolters: Speech on his 70th birthday, September 1, 1928. In: New year books for science and youth education. 4, 1928, pp. 513-519.
  • Reinhard Lullies : Paul Wolters 1858–1936. In: portraits of archaeologists . Mainz 1988, pp. 124-125.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Volker Hoffmann: The Martin von Wagner Museum of the University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 253-265; here: p. 260.
personal data
SURNAME Wolters, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolters, Paul Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1936
Place of death Munich