Walter Altmann (archaeologist)

Bernhard Walter Altmann (born June 12, 1873 in Berlin , † January 24, 1910 in Marburg ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Altmann first studied with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz and Johannes Vahlen at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin, classical archeology and ancient philology, and then went to the University of Halle . There he received his doctorate in 1902 under his most important teacher, Carl Robert, with the work De architectura et ornamentis sarcophagorum , which was published in the same year under the title Architecture and ornamentation of the ancient sarcophagi . From 1902 to 1906 Altmann traveled to Italy, Greece and Asia Minor , in 1903/04 as a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1905 the DAI appointed him a corresponding member.

Since his habilitation with the text Die Italischen Rundbauten. He taught an archaeological study on June 26, 1906 at the University of Marburg . In the same year he married Anna Robert, the daughter of his teacher Carl Robert. In the summer semester of 1908 he was on leave in Marburg to represent the position of secretary (director) at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In the autumn of 1909 he became seriously ill and died at the beginning of the following year.

Fonts

• De architectura et ornamentis sarcophagorum , Halle 1902 (= dissertation)
• Architecture and ornamentation of the ancient sarcophagi , Berlin, Weidmann 1902
• The Roman grave altars of the Imperial Era , Berlin, Weidmann 1905
• The Italian rotunda. An archaeological study , Berlin, Weidmann 1906 (= habilitation thesis)

literature

• Chronicle of the Philipps University of Marburg 23, 1909/10, pp. 5–7 (with list of publications)
• Franz Gundlach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis , Volume 1: From 1527 to 1910, Marburg 1927, p. 480