Richard Engelmann (archaeologist)
Richard Engelmann (born December 13, 1844 in Nebra (Unstrut) , † September 28, 1909 in Graz ) was a German classical archaeologist , high school teacher and journalist .
Engelmann studied at the universities in Berlin and Halle , where he was a student of Alexander Conze and received his doctorate in 1868. From 1868 to 1904 he was a teacher at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Berlin and from 1868 worked on archaeological topics in the Vossische Zeitung . 1870–1871 he toured Italy and Greece with the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . He was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and dealt primarily with Greek and Roman poetry and mythology and the archeology of Rome and Pompeii . His popular writings (especially his picture atlas for Homer ) were widely distributed and some of them were also translated into English. In 1903 the Austrian Archaeological Institute selected him as a corresponding member.
Fonts
- De Ione - dissertatio archaeologica (1868)
- Contributions to Euripides (1882)
- Picture atlas for Homer (1889)
- Picture atlas for Ovid's Metamorphoses (1890)
- Pompeii (1898)
- Archaeological Studies on the Tragedians (1900)
- Ancient pictures from Roman manuscripts in phototypical reproduction (1909)
literature
- Houben (Ed.): The Sunday supplement of the Vossische Zeitung 1858–1903. Bibliographical Repertory II. Berlin 1904, pp. 758–759 (sv Engelmann, Richard)
- Professor Richard Engelmann † In: Vossische Zeitung No. 456 (September 29th, 1909, morning edition)
- Michaela Zavadil: A Trojan Feather War. Meeting reports of the phil.-hist. Class 781, publications of the Mycenaean Commission 29. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7001-6505-7 , pp. 394–395.
Web links
- Richard Engelmann's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Supplement to the ordinance sheet for the service area of the Ministry of Culture and Education . Born 1903, Vienna 1903, Piece XIII, p. 167.
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SURNAME | Engelmann, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist, high school teacher and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1844 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nebra (Unstrut) |
DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1909 |
Place of death | Graz |