Wilhelm Alzinger

Wilhelm Alzinger (born August 11, 1928 in Vienna ; † January 2, 1998 ibid) was an Austrian classical archaeologist .

Life

Wilhelm Alzinger studied from 1946 Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna and was established in 1951 at Hedwig connoisseurs and Artur Betz with a thesis on the Roman period burial mounds in Austria Dr. phil. PhD. Alzinger had worked at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) since 1952 and was appointed 1st class state archaeologist in 1967. In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Augustan architecture in Ephesus at the University of Vienna, where, in addition to his work at the OeAI, he taught as a university lecturer (since 1971) and associate professor (since 1978). Architecture and building research formed the focus of his teaching. In 1993 he retired.

Alzinger took part in the excavations in Ephesus and Agrigento . In 1956 he became head of the excavations in Aguntum , and from 1972 to 1988 he headed the excavations in Aigeira .

Alzinger was a member of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1956 to 1961 and 1974 to 1977 he was chairman or deputy chairman of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History.

He was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof (group 22, number 637).

Fonts (selection)

• The city of the seventh wonder of the world. The rediscovery of Ephesus . Vienna 1962.
• with Anton Bammer : The Monument of C. Memmius . Vienna 1971 (Research in Ephesos, 7), ISBN 978-3-900532-57-4 .
• The ruins of Ephesus . Koska, Berlin [et al.] 1972.
• Augustan architecture in Ephesus . Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna 1974.

literature

• Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Alzinger in the catalog of the German National Library