Werner Technau

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Werner Technau (born October 16, 1902 in Bonn , † October 5, 1941 near Vyasma , Soviet Union ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Werner Technau was the son of the pharmacist Paul Technau. He attended school in Bonn and Offenburg . He developed an interest in ancient writers early on. A chance encounter with Ludwig Curtius made Technau's decision to study classical archeology. Since 1920 he studied at the University of Heidelberg , two semesters took him to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). His most important academic teacher was Curtius. In 1926 he was in Heidelberg with a thesis on The Classical Figure of Greek Art in the Fifth Century. 1. Vase painting. Doctorate in contributions to the chronology and style history of Greek art . After studying, he went on a study trip to Italy, where he primarily examined the Greek vases in Italian collections. From the autumn of 1927 Technau was on a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Greece, where he mainly dealt with the historical, religious and practical aspects of the sanctuaries. The studies culminated in a work on ceramics in the Heraion of Samos . In addition, Technau in Greece pursued his romantic dreams, which he had cherished since school, of living as a farmer on a Greek island. A peculiarity of his nature made him often wander through the country and also seek contact with the population. He always tried to capture not only the archaeological but also the cultural aspects of his host countries. In the autumn of 1929 Technau became assistant for three years in the Rome department of the DAI, which was headed by Ludwig Curtius at the time. In 1932 he returned to Germany and went to the University of Freiburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1933 and was appointed private lecturer. In 1940 he was made an associate professor there. He held his last events in the summer semester of 1941. He was then called up for military service and died a few weeks later on the Eastern Front . Posthumously he was made an adjunct professor.

Technau was honored in two obituaries by Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt and Curtius. Curtius reported of Technau's being, which enabled him to quickly come into contact with other people, but also of a heated being. Schuchhardt was a full professor in Freiburg and therefore Technau's closest colleague since 1936. He reported about Technau's cheerful and open-minded nature and of an artistic and idealistic being who had to struggle with the contradictions of the world. In addition to researching ancient sanctuaries, Technau was particularly interested in Greek vase painting . In the series Pictures of Greek Vases , he published a volume on the black-figure vase painter Exekias .

Fonts

  • Exekias , Keller, Leipzig 1936 ( Pictures of Greek Vases , Vol. 9)
  • The Art of the Romans , Rembrandt, Berlin 1940

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SURNAME Technau, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1941
Place of death near Vyasma , Soviet Union