Wolfgang W. Wurster
Wolfgang W. Wurster (born July 7, 1937 in Aalen ; † December 29, 2003 in Bonn ) was a German building researcher and archaeologist .
Wolfgang Wurster studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . In the USA and Spain he took part in secondary studies in art history and American history. In 1963 he completed his studies with a diploma and then specialized in excavation , monument preservation and architectural history . In 1971 he received his doctorate in Munich as Dr.-Ing. with a work on The Doric Peripteral Temple on the Kolonnahügel in Aegina . This was followed by lecturing and assistant positions in Munich and at the University of Darmstadt . Field research often took him to the Mediterranean , for example to Metapont , Samos , Aegina , Pergamon and Lycia , where he also described the bridge at Limyra . Excavations took him to Ecuador and Peru .
Between 1974 and 1979 he directed the excavations at the Athens Dionysus Theater on behalf of the Greek government . In 1980 Wurster became scientific director of the newly created Commission for General and Comparative Archeology (KAVA) of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1992, after the unexpected death of Klaus Kilian , he succeeded him as First Director of KAVA and remained in this position until 2000. For his book Die Schatz-Gräber. Archaeological expeditions through the high cultures of South America (1991) he was the only specialist archaeologist to receive the prestigious Ceram Prize of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn for the best archaeological non-fiction book. Wurster's specialty was the research of ancient architecture and especially the archeology of the pre-Columbian South American cultures.
Fonts
- Old Aegina. Volume 1: The Temple of Apollo , von Zabern, Mainz 1974
- The treasure graves. Archaeological expeditions through the advanced cultures of South America , GEO, Hamburg 1991 ISBN 3-570-01000-7
literature
- Burkhart Vogt : Wolfgang W. Wurster † (July 7, 1937 - December 29, 2003) . In: Report on the 42nd Conference for Excavation Science and Building Research , Habelt, Bonn 2004
- Klaus Dornisch : A friend to remember. Wolfgang W. Wurster in memoriam . In: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie 20 (2004), pp. 198–200
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang W. Wurster in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wurster, Wolfgang W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building researcher and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bask |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 2003 |
| Place of death | Bonn |