Theodor Panofka

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Theodor Panofka

Theodor Sigismund Panofka (born February 25, 1800 in Breslau , † June 20, 1858 in Berlin ) was a German archaeologist, historian and philologist.

life and work

Panofka studied philology at the Berlin University from 1819 to 1823. In Rome he belonged with Otto Magnus von Stackelberg , Eduard Gerhard and August Kestner in Rome to the circle of the Roman Hyperboreans . In 1826 he met the French diplomat and collector Pierre-Louis de Blacas d'Aulps , in whose service he was from then until the July Revolution as a consultant and private scholar, both in Naples and in Paris. Together they were among the founders of the “Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica”, later the German Archaeological Institute , in which Blacas was appointed first president and Panofka foreign secretary in Paris.

At the National Archaeological Museum in Naples , where he worked with Eduard Gerhard, Panofka dealt with the cataloging of antique vases . In 1836 he became an assistant at the Royal Museum in Berlin, and in 1844 professor of archeology at Berlin University . From 1856 he was the curator of the Royal Vase Collection in Berlin.

In 1836 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Theodor Panofka died in Berlin in 1858 at the age of 58 and was buried in the St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts (selection)

  • Recherches sur les véritables noms des vases grecs et sur leurs differens usages, d'après les auteurs et les monumens anciens . Paris 1829.
  • Antiques du Cabinet du Comte de Pourtals-Gorgier . Paris 1834
  • Terracottas of the Royal Museum in Berlin . Berlin 1842
  • Images of ancient life . 1843
  • Asklepios and the Asklepiades , Treatises of the Berlin Acad., 1845.
  • The Greek proper names with Kalos in connection with the picture decorations on painted vessels . Berlin 1850
  • Friedrich von Raumer (Ed.): Antiquarian letters . Leipzig 1851

literature

  • Karl Ludwig Urlichs:  Panofka, Theodor Sigismund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 125-128.
  • Reinhard Lullies (ed.): Archaeologist portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language . Zabern, Mainz 1988, pp. 25-26.
  • Suzanne L. Marchand : Down from Olympus: Archeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970 , Princeton 1996, pp. 54-56
  • Panofka, Theodor , in: Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archeology (1996) Vol. 2, p. 846.
  • Gloria Ferrari: Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases , Classical Antiquity, 22, 2003, pp. 37-54

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cf. Karl Ludwig Urlichs: Panofka, Theodor Sigismund in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Volume 25, 1887, pp. 125–128 ( online )
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 307.
personal data
SURNAME Panofka, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panofka, Theodor Sigismund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist, historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1858
Place of death Berlin