Emil Kunze

Emil Kunze ( born December 18, 1901 in Dresden, † 13 January 1994 Pullach ) was a German archaeologist and Classic many years excavating at Olympia.

Kunze studied Classical Archaeology in Vienna and Leipzig, and in 1926 received his doctorate in Leipzig Franz Studniczka with the dissertation " Cretan work of hammered bronze from früharchaischer time ". 1926/27, he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute, from 1929 to 1933 he worked at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute. 1935-1937 he was an assistant at the Museum of casts of classical sculptures in Munich. In 1937 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich and was appointed there to non-tenured associate professor. In 1938 the management of the excavations in Olympia, he was appointed, he held up to their wartime setting 1942. From 1942 to 1945 he was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Reich University of Strasbourg. Since 1946 he taught as an honorary professor in Munich.

From 1951 to 1966 Kunze was the first director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens and took the excavations in Olympia again. He wrote important, verbal high-quality contributions to the art history of Greece to the geometric and the Archaic period. He was re-appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Munich in 1972 and was co-organizer of the great Olympic exhibition in Munich.

Since 1951 he was a corresponding member of the Göttingen, since 1952 he was a corresponding, decent since 1968 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

His son was the musicologist Stefan Kunze.

Writings

• Cretan bronze reliefs (1931 )
• Archaic shield tapes ( 1950) (Olympic Research Vol 2)
• Issuance and made ​​great contributions to the Olympic reports IV (1944 ) - VIII ( 1967), Contributions in Olympia Report IX ( 1994)
• Greaves (1991 ) (Olympic Research Vol 21)