Theodor Hampe

Grave of Theodor Hampe in the St. Johannis cemetery in Nuremberg

Theodor Eduard Hampe (born January 28, 1866 in Bremen ; † July 30, 1933 in Nuremberg ) was a German specialist in German studies and art historian .

Life

Theodor Hampe, son of a bookseller, studied German in Marburg and Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 1890 under Wilhelm Wilmanns . From April 1, 1893, he worked at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, where he became the second director in July 1909. Hampe researched and published primarily on Nuremberg's art and cultural history.

Fonts (selection)

• The traveling people in the German past . Diederichs, Leipzig 1902.
• as editor: The Germanisches Nationalmuseum from 1852 to 1902. Festschrift to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary . Johann Jacob Weber, Leipzig 1902.
• Nuremberg council exits on art and artists in the late Gothic and Renaissance periods (= sources for art history and art technology of the Middle Ages and modern times. 12). Leipzig / Vienna 1904.
• The Altnürnberger Kunstglas and its masters. Duncker & Humblot, Munich 1919.
• The tin soldier . Herbert Stubenrauch, Berlin 1924.
• The Nuremberg Maleficent Books as sources of the imperial city moral history from the 14th to the 18th century . CC Buchners Verlag, Bamberg 1927.
• The Nuremberg goldsmith Paulus Müllner as master of the silver Bartholomäus von Wöhrd . Volkhardt & Wilbert, Nuremberg 1929.
• Nuremberg . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.

literature

• Emil Reicke : Theodor Hampe †. In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Vol. 31, 1933, pp. 126–132 ( digitized version ).
• Wulf Schadendorf :  Hampe, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 599 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Hampe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Theodor Hampe  in the German Digital Library