Richard Delbrueck
Richard Delbrueck (also Richard Delbrück , born July 14, 1875 in Jena , † August 22, 1957 in Bonn ) was a German classical archaeologist .
Life
Richard Delbrueck belonged to the Lower Saxony Delbrück family , originally from Alfeld an der Leine , who held several influential positions in Prussia and the German Empire in the 19th century . His father was Berthold Delbrück .
After completing his doctorate in 1899 under Georg Loeschcke at the University of Bonn , Delbrueck received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in 1899/1900 . He completed his habilitation in 1903 and became a professor in 1909. From 1911 to 1915 Delbrueck headed the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute. After it was closed when Italy entered the war , he worked as a consultant in the Prussian War Ministry and in the Foreign Office. In 1922 he took over a chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Giessen , and in 1928 at the University of Bonn . In 1940 he retired for political reasons.
Delbrueck's research areas were initially Roman architectural history and portraits, and later mainly the art of late antiquity .
Fonts
- Contributions to the knowledge of line perspective in Greek art. Bonn 1899 (dissertation).
- Hellenistic buildings in Lazio. Trübner, Strasbourg 1912.
- Ancient portraits. Bonn 1912.
- Portraits of Roman Emperors. Berlin 1914.
- The consular diptychs and related monuments (= studies of late antique art history. Volume 2). Text and chalkboard. Berlin 1929.
- Antique porphyry works (= studies on late antique art history. Volume 6). Berlin / Leipzig 1932.
- Late antique portraits of the emperors. From Constantinus Magnus to the end of the western empire (= studies of late antique art history. Volume 8). Berlin / Leipzig 1933 (unchanged photomechanical reprint 1978, ISBN 3-11-005700-X ).
- Problems of the Lipsanothek in Brescia (= Theophaneia . Volume 7). Hanstein, Bonn 1952.
literature
- Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Ed.): Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 188-189.
- Stefan Samerski : Prof. Richard Delbrueck and the beginnings of the Reichskonkordatverhandlungs from 1920 to 1923. In: Journal for Church History. Volume 104, 1993, pp. 328-357.
- Stefan Samerski: Richard Delbrueck (1875–1957). An archaeologist as a foreign policy maker. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute . Roman department. Volume 101, 1994, pp. 19-31.
- Marianne Bergmann : Delbrueck, Richard. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 290-292.
- Adrien Palladino: Della dissimulazione onesta: Richard Delbrueck, an “Image” of Late Antiquity at the Dawn of National Socialism . In: Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium and the Mediterranean. Volume IV / 1, 2017, pp. 52-69.
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Delbrueck in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Delbrueck, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delbrück, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1957 |
Place of death | Bonn |