Richard Bohn

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Richard Bohn in Pergamon

Karl Theodor Richard Bohn (born December 29, 1849 in Berlin ; † August 22, 1898 in Görlitz ) was a German building researcher .

Life

Richard Bohn was born the son of the portrait painter Heinrich Bohn († 1891/92) and his wife Charlotte Henriette Eleonore Schröder . He received a humanistic education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin and then followed his technical and drawing inclinations: he went to the Royal Building Academy and passed the building foreman examination with distinction in 1871. In the following years, Bohn worked as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Public Works . Among other things, he contributed to the completion of the Victory Column .

He came to archaeological building research through Friedrich Adler , whom Bohn had known since his training. In autumn 1877 he was the first architect to accompany Adler to Olympia , where he explored the Altis as part of the German excavation campaign . A year and a half later, Bohn carried out his first independent field work: the measurement and representation of the Propylaea in Athens . His report, which appeared in 1882, was characterized by close observation and precise drawings. In the fall of 1879, Bohn was brought in to work on the architecture discovery in Pergamon . Here he worked for seven years alongside the excavation manager Carl Humann , with whom he was friends until his death. Your extensive correspondence is kept in the archive of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.

In Pergamon, Bohn's research focus was the Pergamon Altar , especially its original architectural form. Bohn succeeded in developing a reconstruction from the rubble and foundations. This provided the basis for the rebuilding of the altar in Berlin. Bohn also submitted extensive reports on the other buildings of Pergamon, including the Gymnasium and the Athena Temple (previously only documented in inscriptions and literature). His final publication Das Heiligtum der Athena Polias Nikephoros (Berlin 1885) appeared as the second volume in the series Antiquities of Pergamon .

After the preliminary end of the excavations in Pergamon in 1886, Bohn was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg for his services . After a short renewed employment at the Ministry of Public Works, he went in 1887 as director of the Royal Building Trade School in Nienburg / Weser . In 1895 he moved to Görlitz in the same position. The last years of his life were overshadowed by a knee injury that he sustained in Pergamon in 1886. After an operation, Bohn went to Pergamon one last time in 1896 to make check-ups and to supplement his earlier observations. Upon his return, his health deteriorated. His leg was amputated in January 1897, but the sarcoma on the knee continued to spread. Bohn died on August 22, 1898 at the age of 48.

He had married Olga Schmidt on February 10, 1884 in Smyrna and had three children with her.

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SURNAME Bohn, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohn, Karl Theodor Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1898
Place of death Goerlitz