Heinrich Bulle

Heinrich Bulle ( born December 11, 1867 in Bremen, † April 6, 1945 in Bad Kohlgrub ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

Henry Bull was born as the son of Ernst Dompredigers Bull and his wife Lina, born Weismann. After visiting the Old Grammar School in Bremen, he studied in Freiburg, Germany, and especially in Munich Classical Archaeology. In Munich, Henry Bull was the last doctoral student Heinrich Brunn, where he received his doctorate in 1893 with his work The Silene in archaic Greek art. 1893/94 he was a travel scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute, since 1894 assistant at the Archaeological Seminar in Munich. There habilitation bull at Adolf Furtwängler in 1898 with a treatise on Greek statue bases.

1898-1902 taught Heinrich Bulle deputy, at the University of Würzburg, received in 1902 a reputation as an associate professor in Erlangen and returned in 1908 as a full professor in Würzburg back. Here he developed as a university teacher, subtle researcher and director of the Martin-von -Wagner- Museum, even after his retirement in 1935, a rich effect. With the destruction of Würzburg in March 1945 bull lost all of his books and manuscripts.

On April 6, 1945 Henry Bull died in Bad Kohlgrub and was laid to rest in the local Rochusfriedhof.

Writings

Best known Henry Bull was his first published in 1898, fashioned in its second edition in 1912 work The beautiful man in antiquity (3rd unchanged edition 1922), the widely understanding of ancient art, including Greek sculpture, has opened up. Also for the archaeologists was the book with its rich imagery for a long time a reliable means of information. It would not be an art of ancient history in the strict sense, but rather had the intention to show the way in which individual topics of ancient sculpture have been treated and changed.

Even among the smaller fonts Heinrich Bulles take issues to Greek sculpture the finest location: eg The Sami group of Myron, in: Festschrift Paul Arndt (1925 ) 62 et seq, The east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, in: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 54 (1939 ) 137 et seq, or to Pothos of Scopas, in: Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 56 (1941) 121 ff

A second area in which Henry Bull has worked as a researcher with great success, was the story of the ancient theater. Here he was looking through the interpretation of the monuments like the dramas a vivid idea of the lost to win: Investigations of Greek theaters, AbhMünchen 33 (1928 ); The theater at Sparta, SBMünchen (1937 ); A scenography Berlin Winckelmann Program 94 ( 1934), among others

In addition, Heinrich Bulle has established itself as excavators Bronze Age settlements, especially in Orchomenus ( Boeotia ), a name. But provincial Roman has captivated his interest: Celtic Brautfahrt, Etruscan Hades and the genius cucullatus ( ÖJh 35 (1943 ) 138 et seq ) or track roads of antiquity ( SBMünchen (1947 ) H. 2 ).

In 1913 the first volume of which he edited Handbook of Archaeology.