Walter Amelung

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Walter Oskar Ernst Amelung , also Walther Amelung (born October 15, 1865 in Stettin , † September 12, 1927 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German archaeologist.

Life

Walter Amelung was the youngest child of the insurance lawyer Hermann Amelung and his wife Antonie geb. Lebrun († 1904), former actress at the Dresden Court Theater.

He attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in his hometown. After graduating from high school, he studied classical antiquity at the Eberhard Karls University . In 1884 he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . The future historian Walther Stein was active with him . As an inactive person , Amelung moved to the University of Leipzig and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . With a doctoral thesis under Heinrich Brunn , he received his doctorate in Munich in 1888. From Brunn he received formative suggestions for his scientific career. Amelung, who came from an actor family famous at the beginning of the 19th century, worked as an actor in Munich and Berlin for two years. Only then did he turn entirely to classical archeology . 1891-1893 he made extensive trips in the Mediterranean. Here he acquired extensive knowledge of ancient sculpture, which he incorporated into the series of individual photographs of ancient sculptures (with Paul Arndt , continued by Georg Lippold ). The series was intended as preparatory work for a Corpus Statuarum Antiquarum , which however did not materialize.

Amelung lived in Rome as an employee of the German Archaeological Institute from 1895 . He wrote numerous art guides and made significant contributions to the reconstruction of many ancient statues. He had to leave Rome during the First World War and taught at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and at the Lessing University in Berlin at that time . In 1917 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . After the war, in 1921, Amelung was given the management and thus the reconstruction of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. In 1927 he died in Bad Nauheim at the age of 62. He is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome in the immediate vicinity of August von Goethe . Amelung had remained unmarried. He is also known as a translator from Greek and Latin. He was an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Walter Amelung  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 126/118.
  2. ↑ 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. 26.
  3. ^ Cimitero Acattolico - Non-Catholic cemetery in the travel guide of black and white.
personal data
SURNAME Amelung, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amelung, Walter Oskar Ernst (full name); Amelung, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1927
Place of death Bad Nauheim