Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard

Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard ( born November 29, 1795 in Poznan, † May 12, 1867 in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

Gerhard was the son of the Privy Council of Justice David Friedrich Gerhard ( 1768-1829 ). Gerhard spent most of his childhood in Wroclaw, at the University in 1812 he began studying theology. But he turned exclusively to classical philology and moved in 1814 to the University of Berlin, where especially August Boeckh became his teacher and patron. Already in July 1814 received his doctorate with a dissertation on Gerhard Apollonius Rhodios. He returned to Breslau and his habilitation in 1816. A job as a high school teacher in poses that he took the end of 1816, he was forced to retire due to an eye disease in 1818 again.

1820/21 Gerhard traveled for the first time to Italy. A second stay there from 1822 to 1826 was supported by the Prussian Ministry. Gerhard employed in Italy, especially in archaeological studies as well as the topography of Rome. He participated in the Barthold Georg Niebuhr founded by description of the city of Rome and was planning to create a systematic compilation of preserved archaeological monuments through pictures and descriptions. His third stay in Italy, again supported by the Prussian state, lasted from 1828 to 1832. During this time he founded in 1829 in Rome with the participation of other archaeologists and with the support of the Prussian Crown Prince, the Istituto di Corrispondenza Archaeological, later German Archaeological Institute. Gerhard turned now also exploring the ancient vase painting.

In 1832 he returned to Berlin and was hired in 1833 as an archaeologist at the Royal Museum in Berlin. From 1836 he was curator of the vase and Terakottensammlung, from 1855 director of the collection of sculptures and plaster casts. 1835 Gerhard full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, in 1844 a full professor at the University of Berlin. For the popularization of archeology in 1841, he initiated the establishment of the Archaeological Society of Berlin.

Gerhards scientific importance is mainly in the systematic collection and publication of archaeological monuments. He was instrumental in the establishment of classical archeology as an independent science in; among his students, among other Otto Jahn, Ernst Curtius and Alexander Conze.

Eduard Gerhard was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin- Schöneberg, Großgörschenstraße 12-14. The tomb is an honorary grave of Berlin.

Writings

Under Gerhards numerous writings especially his extensive collection of art are:

  • Ancient sculptures, Stuttgart 1827-1844, with 140 engravings and shim Greek mysteries pictures, Stuttgart 1839
  • Exquisite Greek vase paintings, Berlin 1839-1858, 4 vols with 330 engravings
  • Etruscan mirror, Berlin 1843-1868, 4 vols with 360 panels; continued by Adolf Klügmann and Gustav Korte, 1884 ff
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