Carl Watzinger

Carl Watzinger ( born June 9, 1877 in Darmstadt, † December 8, 1948 in Tübingen ) was a German classical archaeologist.

After graduation in 1895 Carl Watzinger first studied Classical Philology at Heidelberg (SS 1895), Berlin ( WS 1895/96 ) and of SS 1896 and SS 1899 in Bonn, where he turned to classical archeology. He was Doctorate on 28 January 1899 in Bonn at Georg Loeschcke with the dissertation studies on South Italian vase painting; on July 29, 1899, he passed the Higher Teaching Certificate for Latin, Greek and history. 1899/1900 and 1901/1902 Watzinger received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute; he traveled through Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. 1900/ 01 he was helping out at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens and participated in the work-up of excavations in Athens, Magnesia and Pergamon.

From 1902 he worked in the Sculpture Department of the Berlin museums. Since January 1904 a lecturer at the University of Berlin in the autumn of 1905 he received a call to Rostock and remained there until 1909 as an associate professor. Together with Heinrich Kohl traveled Watzinger 1905 and 1907 on behalf of the German Oriental Society Galilee, to explore the local synagogues. In the years 1908 and 1909 he took part in the first excavations in Jericho, who led his colleague Rostock, the Old Testament scholar Ernst Sellin.

1909 was Carl Watzinger as a full professor after casting; In 1916 he was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen. As he belonged to the run by Theodor Wiegand German -Turkish monument command in Asia Corps during the First World War, he was only able to WS 1918/19, taking up his professorship in Tübingen, a position he held until his retirement in March 1947. By the summer semester 1948, he occupied the Chair continue until his successor Bernhard Schweitzer arrived. Among his pupils prehistorians Gerhard Bersu and Wilhelm Unverzagt be mentioned as well as the classical archaeologist Hans Klum Bach and Karl Kübler.

From 1911 until his retirement was Carl Watzinger member of the Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute, initially for Hesse, then for seasoning, also a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and Honorary Member of the Greek Archaeological Society in Athens.

Publications (all monographs )

  • Studies on the South Italian vase painting ( Darmstadt 1899)
  • The relief of Archelaus of Priene (a program for Winckelmann celebrations of the Archaeological Society of Berlin 63; Berlin 1903)
  • Greek wood sarcophagi from the time of Alexander the Great ( Scientific Publications of the German Oriental Society 6, Leipzig 1905)
  • With Gangolf of Kieseritzky: Greek grave reliefs from Southern Russia (Berlin 1909)
  • With Ernst Sellin: Jericho. The results of the excavations ( Scientific Publications of the German Oriental Society 22; Leipzig 1913)
  • With Heinrich Kohl: Ancient synagogues in Galilee ( Scientific Publications of the German Oriental Society 29; Leipzig 1916)
  • With Walter Bachmann and Theodor Wiegand: Petra ( Scientific Publications of the German -Turkish monument commands 3; Leipzig 1921)
  • Karl Wulzinger: Damascus. The ancient city ( Scientific Publications of the German -Turkish monument commands 4; Berlin - Leipzig 1921)
  • Karl Wulzinger: Damascus. The Islamic City ( Scientific Publications of the German -Turkish monument commands 5; Berlin - Leipzig 1924)
  • Greek vases in Tübingen ( Tübingen research on the archeology and art history 2; Reutlingen 1924)
  • The monuments of Palestine I. From the beginning to the end of the Israelite monarchy (Leipzig 1933)
  • The monuments of Palestine II From the reign of the Assyrians until the Arab conquest (Leipzig 1935)
  • Theodor Wiegand: a German archaeologist, 1864-1936 (Munich 1944)

Obituary

Antikensammlung Berlin Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft Asia Korps Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium Conrad Bursian Adolf Michaelis Integrated Authority File
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