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German classical archaeologist
Gustav Hirschfeld
Gustav Hirschfeld
Gustav Hirschfeld (4 November 1847,
Pyritz – 10 April 1895,
Wiesbaden ) was a German classical archaeologist. He was the great-uncle of
Walter Benjamin .
[1]
Life
Born into a
Jewish merchant family,
[2] he studied in
Tübingen ,
Leipzig and
Berlin and from 1870 stayed in
Greece ,
Italy and
Asia Minor as a stipendary of the
German Archaeological Institute . From 1875 to 1877 he led the German excavations at
Olympia , for which he was appointed
extraordinary professor (1878) then
ordinary professor (1880) at the
University of Königsberg .
Works
Tituli statuarum sculptorumque graecorum (Berlin 1871)
Athena und Marsyas (Berlin 1872)
Paphlagonische Felsengräber (Berlin 1885)
Berichte über alte Geographie (1885)
Die Felsenreliefs in Kleinasien und das Volk der Hittiter (1887)
Griechische Inschriften des Britischen Museums (1893)
he contributed to the first two volumes of Ausgrabungen zu Olympia (Berlin 1877-78)
From 1884 he wrote on the geographical investigation of ancient culture in the Geographischen Jahrbuch
Aus dem Orient (posthumously published 1897)
Literature
Franz Rühl (1905), "
Hirschfeld, Gustav ",
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 50, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 367–372
Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).
"Hirschfeld, Gustav" .
New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
References
^ Howard Eiland, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life , Harvard University Press (2014), p. 20
^ Jonathan M. Hess, Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity , Stanford University Press (2010), p. 201
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