Wilhelm Fröhner

Christian Eduard Ludwig Wilhelm Fröhner ( born August 17, 1834 in Karlsruhe, † May 22, 1925 in Paris) was a German classical archaeologist who worked in France.

Life

Fröhner studied at the universities of Bonn, Freiburg and Göttingen. During his studies in Freiburg he was awarded the Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden commissioned to catalog the antiquities collection in Karlsruhe. Fröhner performed this task to the satisfaction of the professional world (the two catalogs, divided into sculptures and vases / terracottas, published 1860) and received by the Grand Duke a six month scholarship to study in France. Here Fröhner remained from 1859 until his death. He first worked in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the Imperial Museums at the Louvre, where he was appointed conservator. In addition, he was from 1863 to 1866 as a narrator for the Emperor Napoleon III. active. In connection with the Franco-German war in 1870 he left Paris and worked until his death as a private scholar.

Fröhner wrote numerous editions of inscriptions, catalogs of private and public collections and essays on archaeological, historical and numismatic topics. His most famous works are the edition of Trajan's Column ( five volumes with 220 plates ) and the collection Les musées de France, in which he selected, hitherto unpublished marbles, bronzes and terracottas described. He also participated in a major project Inscriptiones Graecae the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1910 elected him a corresponding member.

After the legacy of Wilhelm Fröhners came in 1927 his 8,000 -volume private library ( including rare pamphlets of the 16th century and oriental manuscripts ) in the Weimar library. Parts of the estate have been lost in 2004 during the fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library ( HAAB ).