Richard Delbrueck

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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.

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