Alexander Conze

Alexander Christian Leopold Conze ( born December 10, 1831 in Hannover, † July 19, 1914 in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist, professor and director of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities.

Life

Conze 1851-1855 studied in Göttingen ( where he joined the Corps Brunsviga ) and Berlin. In Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1855 under Eduard Gerhard with a dissertation on pictorial representations of the psyche. In 1861 his habilitation in Göttingen. In 1863 he was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen a reputation as an extraordinary professor at Halle and went in 1869 as Professor of Archaeology at the University of Vienna, where he headed the newly created professorship in Vienna until 1877. Conze in 1877 was appointed director of the Sculpture Museum in Berlin. Here the study of the ancient city of Pergamon was the focus of his work. In addition, he headed the General Secretariat of the German Archaeological Institute.

Conze began in 1878, together with the engineer Carl Humann with the excavation of Pergamon in the northwest of Asia Minor (up to 1894), which was later continued by the founder of modern excavation methods, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and Theodor Wiegand and 1957-1968 by Erich Boehringer. Conze was also involved in the excavations at Samothrace. The relief portrait of Alexander Conze created Adolf Brütt 1905 in a marble version for the boardroom of the German Archaeological Institute and in a smaller bronze version as a counterpart to the portrait of the same retired Eugene Petersen. 1912 Fritz Klimsch created a bronze bust, which until a few years ago under the altar beside Humann.

Alexander Conze is the father of the Imperial Court Council Hans Conze and the grandfather of the social historian Werner Conze. His daughter is the suffragette Elsbeth Krukenberg Conze.

Work

Conze has acquired on trips an autopsy of many monuments and the fruits thereof, among others, laid down in the scriptures:

  • Travel to the islands of the Thracian Sea. Hannover 1860, ISBN 90-256-0880-9
  • Travel on the island of Lesbos. Hannover 1865
  • Archaeological investigations on Samothrace. Vienna 1875. (Along with Hauser and Niemann )
  • Melische Thongefäße. Leipzig 1862
  • On the history of the beginnings of Greek art. Vienna 1870-1873
  • The family of Augustus. a relief. Hall 1868
  • The importance of classical archeology. Vienna 1869
  • Contributions to the history of Greek sculpture. Hall, 1869. (2nd edition )
  • Serving Sheets for archaeological exercises. Vienna 1869.
  • Heroes and gods of Greek arts. Vienna 1874.
  • Roman sculptures of indigenous localities in Austria. Vienna 1872-78, H. 1-3
  • Theseus and the Minotaur. Berlin 1878, inter alia,

In his capacity as director of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, he had important role in the implementation of Pergamum expeditions for the recovery of the great altar frieze and participated in the above published reports ( The results of the excavations at Pergamum Preliminary Report Berlin in 1880 and 1882, .. Digitized at Heidelberg University Library ).

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