Vladimir Malmberg

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Woldemar (Vladimir) Justus Konstantin Malmberg (born December 1, 1860 in Moscow , † December 9, 1921 ) was a Russian classical philologist and archaeologist .

Life

He comes from a merchant family and studied history and philology at the University of Kazan from 1879 to 1884 . From there he went to the University of Petersburg as a lecturer from 1884 to 1887 and as an assistant from 1888 to 1889 . There he made the acquaintance of the archaeologist Adrian Prakhov (1846-1916), the expert on Roman literature Ivan Pomialovsky and the historian Petr Vasiljević Nikitin . Already in 1885 he met Georg Loeschcke in Dorpat who taught him there, and in the summer of 1886 he came to Germany, where he studied with Ernst Curtius , Adolf Furtwängler and Carl Robert .

From 1890 to 1896 he was an associate professor for classical philology and archeology at the University of Dorpat and from 1908 to 1921 as a professor at the University of Moscow . During that time, in the summer of 1892, he was on an archaeological expedition in southern Russia. In 1894 he came to Athens for 6 months . There he met Wilhelm Dörpfeld from the German Archaeological Institute and was able to visit the Peloponnese and Delphi . In 1897 he visited Stockholm and Copenhagen . In 1900 he traveled to Paris , Rome , Naples , Pompeii , Florence and Vienna . He wrote his dissertation Ancient Greek Pedimant Compositions and successfully defended it in 1904. He came back to Moscow in 1907, where he was the first to use a magic lantern , a technique that he had already got to know in Berlin in 1896, for large lectures .

After the death of the museum's founder, Ivan Wladimirowitsch Zwetajew , Malmberg also took over the management of the Pushkin Museum . Together with Nikolai Scherbakov (1884–1933) he built up the archeology department.

Publications (selection)

  • 1889, Memoirs of the imperial Russion Archtecturial Society in St. Petersburg
  • 1892 Metopes of the Ancient Greek Temples

literature

  • Kateryna Gamaliya: Vladimir (Woldemar Justus Konstantin) Malmerg (1860–1921), Professor of Dorpat and Moscow Universities . In: Baltic Journal of European Studies Volume 1, 2011, pp. 345–353 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Build a small Albertinum in Moscow. Ivan Zwetajew and Georg Treu in an exchange of letters (1881-1913). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna / Weimar 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Malmberg, Vladimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malmberg, Woldemar Justus Konstantin; Malmberg, Wladimir Justus Konstantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian classical philologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1921