Wolfgang Reichel (archaeologist)

Wolfgang Reichel (born May 2, 1858 in Vienna , † December 18, 1900 in Athens ) was an Austrian archaeologist .

Live and act

Reichel studied in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1890 and completed his habilitation in 1894 . From 1898 he was secretary at the Athens branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute . Together with the epigrapher Adolf Wilhelm he carried out the excavations of the Artemis sanctuary of Lousoi in 1898/1899 and prepared their publication. His main interest was the early Greek period and the Mycenaean culture . Reichel was married to Else Benndorf, Otto Benndorf's older daughter . He is buried in the 1st cemetery in Athens.

Wolfgang Reichel had been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1893 .

Fonts

• About Homeric weapons . Vienna 1894.
• with Adolf Wilhelm: The sanctuary of Artemis at Lusoi. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna. Volume 4, 1901, pp. 1-89, ISSN  0078-3579
• Homeric weapons . 2., revised. Edition. Vienna 1901.

literature

• Hermann Vetters :  Reichel (Ernst) Wolfgang. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 30.
• Christa Schauer: Wolfgang Reichel. In: Veronika Mitsopoulos-Leon (Ed.): Hundred Years of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Athens 1898–1998 . Vienna / Athens 1998, ISBN 3-900305-24-2 , pp. 36–37.