Ludwig von Sybel

Ludwig von Sybel ( born July 1, 1846 in Marburg, † April 5, 1929 ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Life

He comes from an old, originally lived in Soest, very wealthy through marriage, Protestant pastors and teachers family. His father was the historian and politician Heinrich von Sybel (1817-1895), his uncle the political economist Alexander von Sybel ( 1823-1902 ). He studied at Göttingen and Bonn Archaeology and Classical Philology. In 1872 he completed his habilitation in Marburg for Classical Philology; In 1877 he was appointed extraordinary professor there for Classical Archaeology. He undertook study trips to Italy 1871-1872, 1879-1880 to Paris and Greece, in 1886 to England. On March 23, 1888, he was appointed Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art History; 1898/99 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, 1906/ 07 Rector of his university. 1908, the title of a Secret Government Council awarded him. With the end of the summer semester 1911 he became Professor Emeritus.

Sybels importance for the Christian archeology is that he no longer represented the early Christian art only as a source or illustration of theology and church history or as a precursor of the Christian art of the Middle Ages and modern times, but as an artistic production in its own right at the end of antiquity.

Since September 3, 1883 he was married to the daughter of a factory Adele basement and had two children, the son of Alfred von Sybel ( 1885-1945 ) and daughter Bertha Stäubli ( 1888-1971 ).

Works (selection)

  • Mythology of the Iliad. Marburg 1877
  • Catalogue of the sculptures to Athens. Marburg 1881
  • World history of art to the edification of the church of St. Sophia. Marburg 1888, 2nd edition 1903
  • Plato's technique demonstrated in the Symposium and Euthydemus. Marburg 1889
  • Thoughts of a father to the high school thing. Marburg 1903
  • Christian antiquity. Introduction to the Early Christian Art, 2 vols Marburg 1906. 1909
  • Early Christian Art. Guide their development. Munich 1920
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