Ernst Buschor

Ernst Heinrich Buschor ( born June 2, 1886 in Hürben ( since 1902 the district of Krumbach (Schwaben ) ); † December 11, 1961 in Munich) was a German classical archaeologist. Buschor was one of the most influential archaeologists of his time and influenced the classical archeology well after his death.

Ernst Buschor attended from 1895 to 1904, the Melanchthon -Gymnasium Nürnberg. He studied from 1904 to 1912 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Classical Studies, where he was strongly influenced by the archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler. Buschor earned his doctorate under Paul Wolters in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he had a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class 1917 and the Bavarian Military Merit in 1918. Buschor 1919 in Erlangen extraordinary and 1920 ordinary professor in Freiburg. From 1922 to 1929 he was the first director of the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute, where he conducted, among other excavations in Athens, Olympia and in Amyklai at Sparta. Then he taught from 1929 to 1954 as a professor of archeology at the University of Munich. From 1929 he was also director of the Munich Museum of casts of classical sculptures. He led from 1925 intermittently until 1961, the excavations at Samos and made ​​important contributions to the understanding of Greek art of the Archaic period. Buschor was not a member of the NSDAP. But probably since 1934 He belonged to the National Socialist Teachers' Association and was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare since 1938. From spring 1946 to autumn 1947, he was suspended by the American military government as a professor.

Ernst Buschor received numerous honors. In 1937 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens. In 1959, the Order Pour le Mérite awarded him. Buschor was a member of the German Archaeological Institute (since 1921), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (since 1931), the Austrian Archaeological Institute ( 1930). He translated all 31 preserved Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

Writings (selection )

• Greek vase painting ( = Classical Illustrators 5, ZDB - ID 514662-8 ). Piper, Munich, 1913.
• Contributions to the History of the Greek textile art. The beginnings and the oriental import. Kastner & Callwey, Munich 1912 (Munich, University, phil. Dissertation 26 January, 1912).
• Euripides: Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. The Maenads. 3 tragedies. Beck, Munich 1960.
• Angulation for Akropolispilger. Beck, Munich 1960.
• Complete edition of the Greek tragedies. 10 volumes. Artemis Verlag, Zurich, inter alia, 1979, ISBN 3-7608-3657-7.