Georg Lippold

Georg Lippold ( born February 21, 1885 in Mainz, † July 23, 1954 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

Lippold was born the son of the Higher Regional Court President Adolf Lippold and his wife Nelly Arnoldi. He studied from 1903 to 1907 at the University of Munich and in the meantime also briefly at the Berlin University Classical Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History. Lippold was one of the last students of Adolf Furtwängler, who coined it long term. With him he took his doctorate in the summer semester in 1907 with the dissertation to the shield of the ancients. During his studies he became friends with the scholar Paul Arndt, who won it for his compilation Corpus statuarum. The friendship should last up to Arndt's death. After receiving his doctorate in 1908, he worked as a volunteer at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. For the year 1909/10 he was awarded by the German Archaeological Institute, the travel grant. With Margarete Bieber and Gerhart Rodenwaldt received this year, two other archaeologists of lasting importance a travel grant by which the Mediterranean could be traveled. After his return Lippold worked from 1910 to 1911 as a volunteer at the Martin -von- Wagner Museum in Würzburg. With the much-acclaimed work Greek portrait statues he habilitated in 1912 in Munich and subsequently taught there as a lecturer. With the onset of World War I also Lippold was liable for military service, due to its limited health he was temporarily deferred from military service. In the winter semester 1920/21 the appeal was made to the associate professorship at the University of Erlangen, where he worked from 1925 until his retirement in 1953 as the successor of Ernst Buschor professor of archeology.

Work

The generally formed Lippold was considered one of the best connoisseurs of classical sculpture and portraits as well as the large painting, but also the glyptic both of antiquity as of the modern era of his generation. In addition, he also dealt with the mosaics, ceramics and sometimes also with the provincial Roman art. His main work is the manual Greek sculpture, in 1950 as part of the manual of archeology. It is still the system as the best manual of ancient sculpture, though later researchers put different emphasis. In the field of glyptic his handling of Arndt'schen Private Collection gems and cameos of antiquity and modern times, broke new ground, especially during imaging. Already in 1923 he presented the first comprehensive presentation of the tradition history of Greek sculpture in his writing copies and transformations of Greek statues. It was awarded in the same year with the Zographos Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and was long a standard work on the copy of criticism. In 1936, he led Walter Amelung catalog of the sculptures of the Vatican Museums continued, another band of model processing appeared in 1956. Both volumes he produced more than 1,000 marble sculptures according to their own research prior to. After his friend Arndt 1937 was passed, he was appointed as his successor until 1947 the editor of the series works Brunn - Bruckmann 's monuments of Greek and Roman sculpture, Arndt- Bruckmann 's Greek and Roman portraits and Arndt and Amelung Photographic individual photographs of ancient sculptures. In addition to various other writings Lippold wrote many articles about sculptors and painters in Pauly - Wissowa and the Thieme- Becker. Lippold developed with support Arndt on the methods of his teacher Furtwängler, scoring pioneering results.

Since 1933, Lippold rejected the Nazi regime in Germany. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the German Archaeological Institute.

His son was the historian Adolf Lippold.

Writings (selection )

  • The shield of the ancients. Dissertation, Munich 1907
  • Greek portrait statues. Munich 1912
  • Copies and transformations of Greek statues. Munich 1923
  • Greek sculpture, Handbook of Archaeology. Vol 3, Munich 1950.
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