Gustav Körte

Gustav Korte ( born February 8, 1852 in Berlin, † August 15, 1917 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist. He is particularly known for the discovery of the ancient city of Gordion in Asia Minor.

Life

Gustav Korte was the son of the Secret Health Council Körte Friedrich ( 1818-1914 ). His siblings included the surgeon Werner Korte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Korte (1854-1934), the Königsberg Mayor Siegfried Korte (1861-1919) and the classical scholar Alfred Korte ( 1866-1946 ).

Korte put 1870, the High School at the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in Berlin and began studying classical philology and archeology at the University of Göttingen. In 1871 he joined Heinrich Brunn to Munich in 1873 to Berlin. In 1874 he received his doctorate in Munich at Brunn with the thesis " About personifications of psychological affects in the later vase paintings ." He then undertook a two month trip to Florence, Rome and Naples. In the fall of 1874 Körte returned to Germany and prepared in Göttingen on the teacher's exam before he took off in 1875. From 1875 to 1876 Körte traveled with the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in Italy and Greece, from 1877 to 1879 as an assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens.

After his return Körte worked a short time in the Berlin Antiquarium, before he went to Göttingen in 1880 as a lecturer. In 1881 he was appointed professor at the University of Rostock, where he took over the chair of archeology. From 1905 to 1907 Korte led the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. In 1907 he moved to Göttingen chair, where he conducted research and taught until his death. He died shortly before his retirement from the effects of an operation for appendicitis. His successor was Hermann Thiersch.

Korte married on September 27, 1887 Anna Wet ( 1864-1938 ), a daughter of Erwin Nasse, married; The marriage remained childless.

Services

Körtes research has focused on individual Greek monuments of art and the art and culture of the Etruscans. So he took over in 1884, together with Adolf Klügmann founded by Eduard Gerhard publication series Etruscan mirror. His individual studies treated particularly the excavations in the necropolis at Orvieto, Tarquinia. He also worked for the project The ancient sarcophagus reliefs.

The greatest glory brought Körte the discovery of the city of Gordion in Asia Minor. Korte had this exposed with his brother Alfred, with whom he often performed his excavations in 1900 and has since taken care of the German Archaeological Institute to finance further excavation projects. The discovery of Gordion made ​​the first exploration of the Phrygian culture of the 8th and 7th century BC possible.