Georg Loeschcke

Georg Loeschcke ( born June 28, 1852 in Penig, Saxony, † November 26, 1915 in Baden -Baden ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

The son of a pharmacist visited 1865-1871 high school in Plauen. He then first began in Leipzig studying philology and history, but also increasingly in archeology with Johannes Overbeck. One of his classmates was Adolf Furtwängler, with whom he had been friends ever since. 1873 moved Loeschcke to the University of Bonn, where he studied mainly in the historian Arnold Schaefer and the archaeologist Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz. In 1875 he was at Shepherd received his doctorate with a thesis on Attic inscriptions ( De titulis aliquot Atticis quaestiones historicae, Bonn 1876) and devoted himself subsequently amplified archeology.

1877 Loeschcke successfully applied to a travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute ( DAI) to explore especially antique vases. He first traveled to Italy, where he remained during the winter 1877/78, with a further scholarship in 1878 in support of Furtwängler to Greece. The end of 1878 he returned to Leipzig, where he worked on a book co-authored with Furtwängler work on Mycenaean Thongefäße, which some years later be followed by a second joint work.

1879 Loeschcke Professor of Classics and Archaeology at Dorpat, where for addition to his teaching through research on the prehistory of the Baltic States. In 1889 he received a professorship at the University of Freiburg, but before he could take him, he was appointed as the successor of Friedrich Althoff Kekulé in Bonn. Besides a rich teaching Loeschcke built there the collections of the Academic Art Museum ( AKM ) from, especially in the area of plaster casts and ancient pottery. In addition, he could with the help of a patron purchase the Theodor Mommsen libraries and Hermann Usener for the AKM. To better accommodate the collections continued Loeschcke by an extension of the AKM, which was completed in 1908. 1895/96 he was Dean of the Faculty, 1909/10 President of the University.

Loeschcke 1912 was appointed to the University of Berlin, again as a successor Kekulé. In Berlin, he went immediately to the development of teaching collections and planned the expansion of the spaces of the Archaeological Seminar. 1915 ill Loeschcke hard and was represented by his student Margarete Bieber. While a cure in Baden -Baden he died of a stroke.

Since 1913 Loeschcke was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Loeschcke was in his first marriage in 1879 to Catherine Hunter married, with whom he had a daughter and six sons, including the theologian Gerhard Loeschcke ( 1880-1912 ), the pathologist Hermann Loeschcke ( 1882-1948 ), Siegfried Loeschcke ( 1883-1956 ) who, like his father was an archaeologist and painter Reinhard Loeschcke ( 1887-1920 ). After the death of his first wife in 1912, married Loeschcke 1915 his pupil Charlotte Frankel.

Services

Loeschcke understood the Classical Archaeology less than art history of the ancient world, but as the study of the entire material culture of antiquity. So he was interested in during his time in Bonn for the Rhenish ground antiquities. He supported the suggestion made by Theodor Mommsen exploration of the Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes and was responsible for the 1892 started excavations and field campaigns as distance Commissioner for the northernmost section of the Limes. In 1894 he was appointed to the Reichs- Limes- Commission in 1895 in the central directorate of the DAI. There he sat together with Alexander Conze for the establishment of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the DAI, which took place in 1901. Besides working at the Limes Loeschcke was also involved in exploring the Roman camp in holders and the Imperial Baths in Trier.

Loeschcke published in his Bonn and Berlin period less than other archaeologists, such as Furtwängler, but was praised as an academic teacher. When it postdoctoral among others Hans Dragendorff, Georg Karo, Richard Delbrueck, Carl Watzinger, August Frick House, Paul Jacobsthal and Margarete Bieber. Outside the university, he spread archaeological knowledge in lectures and holiday courses for high school, which he held from 1890.

Writings

  • Mycenaean Thongefäße, 1879 ( with Adolf Furtwängler)
  • Mycenaean vases, 1886 ( with Adolf Furtwängler)
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