Franz Studniczka

Franz Studniczka ( born August 14, 1860 in Jaslo, Galicia, † December 4, 1929 in Leipzig) was an Austrian classical archaeologist and 1896-1929 Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Leipzig.

Life

Studniczka was born in 1860, son of an Austrian officer. He studied in Vienna as a pupil of Otto Benndorfs Classical Archaeology. 1882 Franz Studniczka became an assistant in Vienna and completed his habilitation in 1887 with a thesis on archaic painting. In 1889 he became a professor at the Albert- Ludwigs- University in Freiburg im Breisgau, but was followed by a 1896 appointment to the Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Leipzig, where he succeeded the late 1895 John Overbeck. Studniczka was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. His successor in the chair in Leipzig, Herbert Koch.

Importance

Studniczka was a connoisseur of the Roman and Greek art of the first rank. His style critical methods in archeology such as, among others, to Menander were milestones of archaeological research and are still regarded as seminal. His methods proved to be important tools not only for the style -critical analysis, but also in the detection of counterfeits. 1911 wrote Studniczka a first careful analysis of a relief at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boston Throne, in which he recognized one of the better-known counterpart Ludovisi Throne and his - still not undisputed - authenticity postulated. Studniczkas restoration of Copenhagen Artemis Iphigenia group in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is one of the most remarkable achievements of the Leipzig archeology.

The University of Leipzig owed ​​Studniczka the further expansion of initiated under Overbeck antique collection of casts in particular, so that they grew into one of the largest collections of plaster casts in the German Reich. Despite the losses in the Second World War, it is still an important collection of plaster casts of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Under his directorship the inventory of antique originals in the Museum of Antiquities of the University of Leipzig has been expanded significantly. This was achieved through the acquisition of numerous sponsors. The American Edward Perry Warren in Boston and the Englishman John Marshall in Oxford are especially noteworthy.

Francis Cleaver, Upper curator of the Archaeological Institute, produced in 1929 a bronze bust Studniczkas. It is now in the study hall of the Institute of Classical Archaeology in Leipzig. Already in 1928 created a cleaver little bronze relief with Studniczka before Artemis Iphigenia group.

Writings (selection )

• The Picture of Aristotle. A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1908.
• Contributions to the history of ancient Greek costume. O. Gerold 's Sohn, Vienna, 1886.
• The counterpart of the Ludovisi throne back. In: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute. Volume 26, 1911, pp. 50 ff;
• The beginnings of Greek portraiture. In: Journal of Fine Arts. Volume 62, No. 6, 1928-1929, pp. 121-134.
• The Sophocles Statues. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. Volume 43, 1923, pp. 57-67.
• The portrait of Menander. In: New Year Books for the Classical antiquity. Volume 21, 1918.