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.

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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.

↑ Supplement to the ordinance sheet for the service area of the Ministry of Culture and Education . Born 1903, Vienna 1903, Piece XIII, p. 167.

personal data
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