Rudolf Gaedechens

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Rudolf Gaedechens , also Rudolph Gaedechens , (born April 28, 1834 in Hamburg , † October 4, 1904 in Blankenburg am Harz) was a German classical archaeologist .

Rudolf Gaedechens, son of the businessman Otto Christian Gaedechens , who was also active in the field of numismatics , studied after visiting the Johanneum from 1854 at the University of Göttingen , where he also became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity . He first studied theology , from the second semester on, classical studies . Here he was supported by the archaeologist Friedrich Wieseler , where he received his doctorate in 1859 with a thesis on the sea god Glaucus . He then worked in Paris with the Duc de Luynes on the publication of Theodor Panofka's estate . In 1860/61 he worked on the collection of antiquities of the Princes of Waldeck at Arolsen Castle .

In 1863 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena with a thesis on the iconography of the Graien . At the University of Jena he became an associate professor in 1865. In 1870/71 he went on a long research trip to Italy . In 1871 he became a full professor and director of the Archaeological Museum and the Academic Coin Cabinet in Jena, which is affiliated to it. He also taught as a professor for art history and aesthetics at the Weimar Art School . From 1897 he no longer taught in Jena for health reasons. He spent the period from 1898 until his death in the Eyselein mental hospital in Blankenburg.

His main area of ​​research was the iconography of Greek mythology .

Publications (selection)

  • Glaucus, the sea god. A mythological-archaeological treatise . Dissertation Göttingen 1859.
  • Glaukos the sea god . Goettingen 1860.
  • The antiquities of the Princely Waldeck Museum in Arolsen . Arolsen 1862.
  • De Graeis . Göttingen 1863 (= habilitation thesis).
  • The goatherd's cup in Theokrit I. v. 27-58 . Jena 1868.
  • The head of Medusa from Blariacum . Bonn 1874.

literature

  • Otto Unrein: Rudolph Gaedechens . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde 28 = annual report on the progress of classical antiquity 128, 1905 (1906), pp. 115–135 ( digitized version , with list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Gaedechens, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaedechens, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1904
Place of death Blankenburg am Harz