Wilhelm König (archaeologist)

This article is about the archaeologist at the National Museum of Iraq. For the ancient orientalist at the University of Vienna see Friedrich Wilhelm König .

Wilhelm König (* in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter , technical assistant to archaeological projects and director of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad .

Life

König came to the excavation in Uruk in Iraq in 1930 as a member of the German Warka Expedition . From 1931 he was first assistant to the German director of the Baghdad Antiquities Authority, then he was appointed director of the Iraqi National Museum . During excavations of a Parthian settlement in 1936 he discovered the so-called Baghdad battery on the site of the Khujut Rabuah hill near Baghdad (the ancient Ctesiphon ) . In February 1939 he returned to Vienna due to blood poisoning and published the book In Lost Paradise. Nine years of Iraq .

family

König is said to have been a relative of Walter Andraes , who, as a building historian, excavated in Assur in Iraq and was director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin from the 1930s to the 1950s .

plant

Plaster casts

The plaster casts exhibited in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, which the museum has of objects from the Iraq Museum, were made by König.

Publications

• A galvanic element from the Parthian era? In: Researches and Advances . Volume 14, 1936, pp. 8-9.
• In paradise lost. Nine years of Iraq. Rohrer, Baden near Vienna a. a. 1940 (Book review by Käte Fück: King: In the lost paradise. Nine years of Irak. In: Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Volume 95 [New Series Volume 20], No. 3/4, 1941, p. 441 f. [ Digitized ] ).

literature

• Arnold Nöldeke : Letters from Uruk- Warka, 1931–1939. Edited by Margarete van Ess and Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89500-485-8 , p. 331.
• Erich Zehren: The biblical hills: on the history of archeology. Edited by FA Herbig , 1961, pp. 88, 124, 157, and much more ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Library of Congress Authority: König, Wilhelm , lccn.loc.gov .
2. ^ ^{A b} Walter Andrae: Babylon: The sunken metropolis and its excavator Robert Koldewey , (Ed.) Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1952, Berlin, p. 237, [1] .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Book review by Käte Fück: King: In the lost paradise. Nine years of Iraq. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. Volume 95 (New Series Volume 20), No. 3/4, 1941, p. 441 f. ( Digitized version )
4. ↑ A galvanic element from the Parthian era? In: Researches and Advances . Volume 14, 1936, pp. 8-9.
5. ↑ In Paradise Lost. Nine years of Iraq. Rohrer, Baden near Vienna a. a. 1940.