Wolfgang W. Wurster

Wolfgang W. Wurster (* July 7, 1937 in Aalen, † December 29, 2003 in Bonn ) was a German architectural historian and archaeologist.

Wolfgang Wurster studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich. In the United States and Spain, he pursued addition to studies in art history and American history. In 1963 he completed his studies with a diploma and specialized then excavation nature, historic preservation and architectural history. In 1971 he received his doctorate in Munich Dr.- Ing. with a thesis on The Doric peripteral on the Kolonnahügel in Aegina. It joined lecturers and assistant activities in Munich and at the University of Darmstadt. Field research led him frequently in the Mediterranean, so after Metapontum, Samos, Aegina, Pergamon and Lycia, where he also described the Limyra Bridge. Excavations led him to Ecuador and Peru.

Between 1974 and 1979 he conducted on behalf of the Greek Government, the excavations at the Athens Theater of Dionysos. 1980 Wurster was scientific director of the newly created Commission for General and Comparative Archaeology ( KAVA ) of the German Archaeological Institute. In 1992 he became after the unexpected death of Klaus Kilian in succession Its First Director of KAVA and remained until 2000 in this position. For his book The Treasure - digger. Archaeological expeditions through the high cultures of South America (1991 ) he received the prestigious Ceram price of the Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn for the best archaeological nonfiction currently the only professional archaeologist. Subject Wurster was to explore ancient architecture and especially the archeology of pre-Columbian South American cultures.

Writings

• Old Aegina. Volume 1: The Temple of Apollo, of Saverne, Mainz 1974
• The Treasure - digger. Archaeological expeditions through the high cultures of South America, GEO, Hamburg 1991 ISBN 3-570-01000-7