Heinrich Brunn

Henry (of ) Brunn ( born January 23, 1822 in Wörlitz; † July 23, 1894 in Josephstal in Schliersee / Upper Bavaria ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

The son of a pastor studied at the University of Bonn Classical Archaeology and Philology. Since 1840 he was a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn. In 1843 he received his doctorate with a thesis Artificum liberae Graeciae tempora and went in the same year to Italy. Until 1853 he worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. In 1854 his habilitation in Bonn. In 1865, he accepted an appointment as a full professor at the newly created Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich. His students included, inter alia, Gustav Körte Adolf Furtwängler, Paul Arndt, Walter Amelung, Arthur milk Höfer and Heinrich Bulle.

Heinrich Brunn made ​​significant works in particular for Greek art history. In 1882 he was charged with the award of the Bavarian Order of the Crown in the personal nobility.

He is the father of the mathematician Hermann Brunn, who also published his writings.