Karl Jakob Weber

Karl Jakob Weber ( * 1712, † 1765 ), known in Italy as Don Carlos Weber, was a Swiss military engineer and archaeologist (Amateur).

The military engineer Weber, most recently as a colonel, came in 1748 as an assistant to excavation director Rocque Joaquín de Alcubierre to the archaeological sites of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae to Campania. Unlike his superior de Alcubierre, who was only treasure hunters, Weber brought a more scientific methods in the excavations. He drew for example, the first sub-plans of Pompeii, led a dig diary and went up to a certain point before methodically. Since de Alcubierre envied him this skill, he sabotaged Weber. In his missive of the Herculaneischen discoveries Johann Joachim Winckelmann was after his visit to the excavation site in 1758 nothing good to say de Alcubierre, but praised Weber, without the - in his opinion - the location of the excavations at Vesuvius would have been much more catastrophic:

His most important work was the study of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in the years 1750-1765. From 1758 (?) To 1764 Weber was as deputy to de Alcubierre excavation director in Pompeii. Here, the grave and the grave of the Mamia Istacidier was exposed under his leadership. His discoveries in Europe triggered a wave of interest and enthusiasm antiques. Today, Karl Weber is considered one of the founders of modern archeology.

Weber had a younger brother, Franz Dominik von Weber (1717-1793), Brigadier General in the Regiment von Tschudi, the Swiss Guard was.