Wolfgang Züchner

Wolfgang Züchner (born March 23, 1906 in Dresden , † March 25, 1981 in Munich ) was a German classical archaeologist .

He attended the Victoria-Gymnasium in Potsdam and, after graduating from high school, began studying classical archaeologists at the University of Berlin . He later moved to Dresden and the University of Kiel . There he did his doctorate in 1934 under Eduard Schmidt with a dissertation on Greek folding mirrors , for which he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He worked at the State Museums in Berlin until he got a position as an assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Leipzig University in 1939 , which he held until 1946. Although he made at this time with interruptions military service, he was able in 1943 with a record of the Agora of Magnesia habilitation . After returning from captivity, he went to the University of Würzburg as a lecturer in Classical Archeology , where he worked as a scheduled assistant to Hans Möbius , head of the Department of Classical Archeology at the Philosophical Faculty and director of the Martin von Wagner Museum at Domerschulgasse 16 . Finally, in 1953, he was appointed full professor and chair holder of classical archaeologist at the University of Erlangen , which he accepted. He worked here from December 1953 until his retirement on March 31, 1971.

Fonts (selection)

The Berlin maenad crater . de Gruyter, Berlin 1938
Greek folding mirror . de Gruyter, Berlin 1942 (also dissertation, Kiel 1934)

literature

Klaus Parlasca : Wolfgang Züchner 1906–1981. In: Reinhard Lullies / Wolfgang Schiering (eds.) Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 297-298.

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Züchner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 16 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Züchner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1981
Place of death	Munich

[1] Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 16 f.