Friedrich Wieseler

Friedrich Julius August Wieseler (* October 19, 1811 in Altencelle; † December 3, 1892 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.

The son of a pastor studied after attending school in Salzwedel and Abitur in Göttingen from 1830 at the University of Göttingen classical philology, especially with Karl Otfried Müller. From 1833 to 1836 he lived in Berlin, where he attended lectures at August Boeckh and private study drove to then return to Göttingen. 1837 Wieseler earned his doctorate in Jena and habilitated in 1839 in Göttingen for archeology and philology. In 1841 he took over the vacant since the death of Müller's management of the archaeological and numismatic collection ( from 1843 together with Müller's successor, Karl Friedrich Hermann) and associate professor in 1842. Following the rejection of a call to the University of Dorpat in 1845 Wieseler founded an archaeological conference. In 1854 he was appointed professor and included in the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1869. 1878/79 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts. 1889 was Wieseler on the management of the archaeological and numismatic collection, but continued to teach at the Archaeological Seminar.

Wieseler, who had increasingly become an archaeologist, still maintained a close connection with classical philology, including works to the Roman Theatre. In the field of archeology, he continued miller monuments of ancient art and moved in several treatises with gods symbols and attributes. Wieseler had numerous students who were important archaeologists. During his time in Göttingen Habilitation at him Alexander Conze (1861 ), Otto Benndorf (1868 ), Friedrich Matz (1870 ), Friedrich von Duhn (1879 ), Gustav Korte (1880 ) and Arthur milk Höfer (1882). Other students were Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher, Habbo Gerhard Lolling and Georg Hubo.