Wilhelm Fröhner

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Christian Eduard Ludwig Wilhelm Fröhner (mostly Wilhelm Froehner , born August 17, 1834 in Karlsruhe , † May 22, 1925 in Paris ) was a German classical archaeologist who worked in France.

Life

Fröhner studied at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg and Göttingen . During his student days in Freiburg, he was commissioned by Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden to catalog the collection of antiquities in Karlsruhe. Fröhner carried out this task to the satisfaction of the professional world, the two catalogs, divided into sculptures and vases / terracottas, appeared in 1860, and received a six-month scholarship from the Grand Duke to study in France. Fröhner stayed here from 1859 until the end of his life. From 1862 he worked in the Greco-Roman Antiquities Department of the Imperial Museums in the Louvre , where he was appointed curator. He was also a reader for Emperor Napoleon III from 1863 to 1866 . active, which he supported in his scientific studies. He had been a French citizen since 1866 and a Knight of the Legion of Honor since 1868. In connection with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he lost his position at the Louvre as a "German". After 1871 he lived as a private scholar in Paris and wrote catalogs of antiquities for private collectors and art dealers. In 1891 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fröhner wrote numerous editions of inscriptions, catalogs from private and public collections and essays on archaeological, historical and numismatic topics. His best-known works are the edition of the Trajan Column (five volumes with 220 panels) and the Les musées de France collection , in which he described selected, previously unpublished marble works, bronzes and terracottas. He also took part in the large-scale Inscriptiones Graecae project of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , which elected him a corresponding member in 1910.

Following the legacy of Wilhelm Fröhner, his private library, comprising around 8,000 volumes (including rare pamphlets from the 16th century and oriental manuscripts), came to the Weimar library in 1927. Parts of the estate were lost in the fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in 2004 . He bequeathed his collection of antiquities to the Cabinet des Médailles of the Paris National Library .

literature

  • Comtesse de Cécile Aubry-Vitet de Rohan-Chadot: Souvenirs de Frœhner. Daupeley Governor, Noget-Le-Rotrou 1931, OCLC 17475890 . (with bibliography)
  • Franz Cumont : Wilhelm Froehner. In: Revue des Deux Mondes. 8e période, t. April 1, 1931. (Gallica)
  • Marie-Christine Hellmann : Wilhelm Froehner. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7177-1635-1 .
  • Marie-Christine Hellmann: Wilhelm Froehner, un collectionneur pas commes les autres, 1834–1925. In: Annie-France Laurens (ed.): L 'Anticomanie: la collection d'antiquités aux 18e et 19e siècles. Ed. de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7132-0987-0 , pp. 251-264.
  • Soheir Bakhoum, Marie-Christine Hellmann: Wilhelm Froehner, le commerce et les collections d'antiquités égyptiennes. In: Journal des Savants. 1992, pp. 155-186.
  • Marie-Christine Hellmann, Olivier Masson : Wilhelm Froehner numismate. In: Revue Numismatique. 6, 6, 1994, pp. 308-329. (Persée)
  • К. Соде : Вильгельм Өренер (1834–1925): его Эначение для византийской Сфрагистики. (Wilhelm Fröhner [1834-1925]. Its importance for Byzantine sigillography). In: Елена В. Степанова (Ed.): Сфрагистика и История Культуры. Сборник научных Трудов, посвящённый Юбилею В.С. Андровской. Издательство Государственного Эрмитажа, Санкт-Петербург 2004, ISBN 5-935772-125-2 , pp. 22-29.
  • Mariola Kazimierczak: Presentation of the lettres inédites du comte Michel Tyszkiewicz à Wilhelm Froehner, conservées aux archives de Weimar. Paris 2006.

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Fröhner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 87.
personal data
SURNAME Fröhner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Froehner, Wilhelm; Fröhner, Christian Eduard Ludwig Wilhelm (full name); Frœhner, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist working in Paris
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1925
Place of death Paris