Richard Bohn

Richard Bohn ( born December 29, 1849 in Berlin, † August 22, 1898 in Görlitz ) was a German architectural historian.

Life

Richard Bohn was born as the son of the portrait painter Henry Bohn. He received the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Gymnasium in Berlin, a humanist education and then followed his technical and graphic Orientation: He went to the Royal Academy of Architecture and consisted Bauführerprüfung 1871 with honors. In the following years, Bohn worked as a laborer in the Ministry of Public Works. He worked with, among others, the completion of the Victory Column.

About Friedrich Adler, the Bohn had known since his training, he arrived at the building research in archeology. In the autumn of 1877 he accompanied Adler was the first architect to Olympia, where he explored the Altis in the framework of the German excavation campaign. One and a half years later, Bohn his first independent work in the fields of: see the measurement and representation of the Propylaea in Athens. His report, published in 1882, was characterized by careful observation and precise drawings. In the autumn of 1879 Bohn was used as processor architecture finds in Pergamon. Here he worked for seven years in addition to the excavation director Carl Humann, with whom he was friends until his death. Your extensive correspondence is kept in the archives of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.

In Pergamum was Bohn's research focus of the Pergamon Altar, particularly its original architectural form. It succeeded Bohn to open up from the ruins and foundations of a reconstruction. Thus the basis for the re-establishment of the altar in Berlin was given. Also to the other buildings of Pergamon put Bohn extensive reports, including over the gymnasium and on the (until then only in inscriptions and literary unpopulated) Athena temple. His final publication The Sanctuary of Athena Polias Nikephoros (Berlin 1885) was published as the second volume of the series antiquities of Pergamon.

According to the preliminary end of the excavations in Pergamon 1886 Bohn was honored for his achievements with an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg. After a short re- employment with the Ministry of Public Works, he went in 1887 as director of the Royal Baugewerkschule in Nienburg / Weser. In 1895, he moved in the same capacity to Görlitz. His last years were marred by a knee injury he had suffered in 1886 in Pergamon. After surgery Bohn drove 1896 one last time to Pergamos, to make check-ups and to supplement its previous observations. Upon his return, his health worsened. In January 1897 his leg was amputated, but the sarcoma at the knees spread further. On August 22, 1898 Bohn died at the age of 48 years.