Rudolf Horn (archaeologist)

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Rudolf Horn (Photo: around 1950)

Rudolf Horn (born September 10, 1903 in Waldangelloch ( Baden ), † January 27, 1984 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

After attending grammar school in Heidelberg, the son of pastor Carl Friedrich Horn studied classical archeology with Ludwig Curtius at the University of Heidelberg and, after his move to Rome in 1929, received his doctorate with Bernhard Schweitzer in Königsberg with a thesis on Hellenistic robed statues . He traveled to the Mediterranean region in 1930/31 and 1932/33 with the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute and had a research grant at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in 1931/32 . He then worked in Heidelberg as assistant to Arnold von Salis from April 1, 1933 , and received his habilitation there in November 1935. From 1936 to 1939 he was an assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. On August 1, 1936, he joined the NSDAP . From 1939 to 1940 Horn was a lecturer at the University of Breslau . From April 1940 he held the chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Göttingen and was appointed professor on October 1, 1941. He was unable to take up the professorship for the time being because he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and worked in the Foreign Office in the field of encryption and communications from early 1942 to 1935 .

Horn taught in Göttingen from 1946, initially as an associate professor and from 1952 as a full professor. In 1971 he retired. Since 1951 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Horn dealt mainly with Hellenistic sculpture, to which his dissertation and his habilitation thesis were dedicated to the history of the style of Hellenistic heads , as well as the afterlife of ancient art.

Since 1936 he was married to the art historian Alste Oncken .

literature

  • Klaus Fittschen : Rudolf Horn. In: portraits of archaeologists . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 289-290.
  • German biographical encyclopedia. Volume 11/1. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23171-7 , p. 91.
  • Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: G-K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , pp. 374-375.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 118.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest fishing hole
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1984
Place of death Goettingen