Friedrich von Duhn
Friedrich Carl von Duhn ( born April 17, 1851 in Lübeck, † February 5, 1930 in Heidelberg ) was a German classical archaeologist.
Family and origin
Friedrich von Duhn came from an old sailor and merchant family. His father Carl Alexander of Duhn (1815-1904) was a judge at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, his mother was Anna Margaretha Heineken (1821-1901); the paternal grandfather, Johann Hermann von Duhn was a senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck; the mother's side, Friedrich Wilhelm Heineken, Senator and Syndic of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. His godfather was the jurist Friedrich Karl von Savigny.
In 1880 he married in Naples Florence Wolfensohn (* 1860 in Bradford, † 1881). Their son, August Wilhelm fell on September 24, 1914 at Douai. In 1882 he married his second wife Marie Babette Josefine Anna von Boeckmann ( born January 25, 1857 in Baden -Baden, † May 7, 1928 in Heidelberg). The couple had two sons and two daughters.
Academic career
The father, who had studied with Jacob Grimm and Karl Otfried Müller, had shown tendencies to archeology. Friedrich von Duhn studied this subject since 1870 at the University of Bonn in Usener Hermann, Reinhard Kekulé and Franz Bücheler. In 1874 he received his doctorate with a thesis De Menelai itinere Aegyptio Odysseae carminis IV episodio quaestiones criticae and traveled from 1875 to 1877 with the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute through Italy, Sicily and Greece. In 1879 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Göttingen. In 1880 he became a full professor of archeology at the University of Heidelberg. He was the first German scholar who visited Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and expressed positive views about the interpretation of the excavations. In 1911/12 he was Vice-Rector of the University of Heidelberg. In 1920 he became Professor Emeritus.
Friedrich von Duhn was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 93 wherein 93 prominent German 1914 the call to the civilized world signed, which denied the sole guilt of Germany in the First World War. From Duhn was a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Research
From Duhn dealt life with Roman reliefs and other remains. Great merit he acquired when he first recognized that some Roman relief fragments of the Ara Pacis were assigned to.
His work-up of the numerous finds of the region provided the working basis for the research of the 20th century. For Max Eberts Lexicon of history (1924 ff ), he delivered all Italy that article.
The archaeological collections of the University of Heidelberg and here in particular the collection of ancient art - both the originals as well as the casts - learned during the four decades that Friedrich von Duhn the Archaeological Institute initiated and the collection board (1880-1920) the greatest increase its history. It was he, who has expanded through acquisitions Heidelberger collection of antique cabaret to one of the most important teaching collections at German universities. The collection of casts, now grown to nearly 500 exhibits, was first developed by him in 1887 by a catalog, published until 1913 updated in six editions.
Among his pupils were significant Rudolf Page engraver, Friedrich Pfister, Carl Schuchardt, Bernhard Schweitzer, Ernst Wahle, Wilhelm Weber, Otto Weinreich and Robert tooth.
Final resting
Friedrich von Duhn was laid to rest on Mount Cemetery (Heidelberg ) in the Department O. The tomb is adorned by a boulder. "Originally there was a classicizing relief Tele on the grave. The stela from Paros marble showed the appearance of a girl with two doves. This for the first woman Duhns, Florence Wolffson, erected stele ( created by Constantin Daub, a fellow with Duhn sculptor in Rome) was a copy of a 1875 found at Paros ancient plant from the middle of the 5th century BC, which was formerly thought to be a creation of the great Greek sculptor Phidias. Regrettably, the original stele has come been cleared in the 1960s by mistake and lost, the tomb is found on such a lodged by the cemetery administration replacement stone. "