Friedrich Schlie

Friedrich Schliemann ( born December 12, 1839 in Brüel; † July 21, 1902 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German archaeologist and art historian.

Life

As the son of a cantor and teacher Friedrich Schliemann already earned as a 16- year-old his living as a house and a private tutor until he could take his Abitur in 1863 in Rostock. From Easter 1863 he studied at the University of Rostock, later at the University of Munich philology and art history. He received his Ph.D. in 1867 in Munich and worked then for two years as auxiliary secretary at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. From 1869 to 1877 he worked as a teacher at the high school in Waren / Müritz, then for one year at the Gymnasium Schwerin, before he was in 1878, as successor to the late Edward Prosch ( 1804-1878 ) director of the Grand Ducal art collections. His merit was first to catalog the scattered Grand Ducal art treasures and to unite in the 1882 completed by Hermann von Willebrand representative new building at the Old Garden.

Friedrich Schliemann has received numerous awards, he was councilor in 1882, was appointed professor in 1899 and a Privy Councillor in 1891. He was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and Berlin, as well as a permanent member of the International Congress of Art History. Among his other merits heard his work in Mecklenburg Association for History and Archaeology. In the years 1898-1902 he published his five-volume comprehensive work " of art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin ." He was a friend and patron of the famous archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann.

A short created in 1902 after his death clo marble bust by sculptor Ludwig Brunow and 1888, created by Louise Schmidt paintings are in the collections of the State Museum Schwerin.