Langdon Warner

Langdon Warner (* 1881 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † 1955 ) was an American art historian, archaeologist and Harvard professor. He is one of the models for Steven Spielberg's film character Indiana Jones.

Life and work

As a research agent at the beginning of the 20th century he explored the Silk Road and served in the U.S. Army 's Antiquities Division, after the Second World War in the Arts and Monuments Section, GHQ the Supreme Commander, Allied Powers of Japan. He was curator of Oriental Art at the Fogg Museum of Art

It is credited to him as a merit that he has used in the Roberts Commission against the use of incendiary bombs and atomic bombs on to Kyoto, Nara and other ancient cities to protect the cultural heritage of Japan.

For this reason, monuments were erected in his honor in Kyoto and Kamakura (outside the Kamakura JR Station).

The Gobi desert, he traveled in search of works of art. In the caves of Dunhuang he solved from some frescoes.

He wrote an important monograph on the Buddhist wall paintings discovered by Aurel Stein in 1907 a cave, the cave from the ninth century the Yulin Caves (榆林 窟Yulin ku ) in the circle Guazhou (瓜州 县Guazhou Xiàn ) of Gansu Province, formerly known as Anxi county (安西县Anxi xian ) was called.

Works

• The Long Old Road in China. 1926
• The Craft of the Japanese Sculptor. 1936
• The Enduring Art of Japan. 1952
• Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period: Masterpieces of the Eighth Century. 1959