Carl Haller von Hallerstein

Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Haller 's Stone ( born June 10, 1774 Castle Hiltpoltstein; † November 5, 1817 in Ampelakia, Thessaly, Greece ) was a German architect and archaeologist earlier.

Carl Haller von Haller stone originating from a altnürnbergischen gender, studied architecture at the Academy in Stuttgart Carl and then at the Berlin Academy of Architecture under David Gilly, he was hired in 1806 as a royal building inspector in Nuremberg.

He visited Rome in 1808 where he studied the early Christian architecture. In June 1810, he was accompanied by Jacob Linckh ( 1786-1841 ), Peter Oluf Broendsted ( 1780-1842 ), Otto Magnus von Stackelberg ( 1786-1837 ) and Georg Koes ( 1782-1811 ) via Naples, Corfu and Corinth to Athens. In 1811 he learned in Athens, the English architect Charles Robert Cockerell and John Foster ( 1786-1846 ), with whom he studied the ancient monuments of Athens.

In 1811 he discovered with Linkh Stackelberg and the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, a part of whose sculptures are located in the Munich Glyptothek. In the same year Haller of Haller stone dug with Gropius, Linckh, Stackelberg, Broendsted and Foster from the temple ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. The relief frieze found there is since 1814 in the British Museum. Later he directed excavations still in Ithaca and in the ruins of the theater of Milos.