Walter Andrae

Ernst Walter Andrae ( born February 18, 1875 in Anger at Leipzig, † July 28, 1956 in Berlin, sometimes also Ernst Walter Andrae ) was a German architectural historian and Near Eastern archaeologist.

Life and work

Walter Andrae went to high school in Chemnitz and Grimsby. He then completed a year of military service, and then began studying architecture at the Technical University of Dresden, where he earned his Regierungsbauführer. Here he was also interested in architectural history. From 1898 to 1903 he worked as an employee Robert Koldeweys during the excavations in Babylon, where he temporarily held the excavation line. From 1903 to 1914 he dug among others, along with Julius Jordan in the first capital of Assyria Assyrerreiches. Andrae also participated in other excavations in the Near East, such as that of the late Hittite Zincirli.

In 1908 he traveled to Germany to complete his PhD at the Technical University of Dresden and attend the rehearsals and the first performance of pantomime Sardanapalus in Berlin, where the orient enthusiastic Kaiser Wilhelm II commissioned and had designed the stage sets for the Andrae.

After his return from the Euphrates in 1914 married Andrae, was called up for military service and seconded to the staff of Field Marshal von der Goltz in the Middle East. In 1921 he succeeded Robert Koldeweys curator of the Ancient Near East Department of the Berlin museums and received in 1923 an extraordinary professorship at the Technical University Berlin. In 1926 he succeeded to trigger the confiscated on their way across the Mediterranean during World War finds from Assyria in Portugal; In the same year he reached the evacuation of the discoveries in Babylon, the Koldewey 1917 there had been forced to leave behind.

1928 Walter Andrae was appointed Director of the Ancient Near East Department of the Berlin museums. In 1930 he opened the newly established there Babylon halls. In 1946 he was appointed as Professor of Architecture and architectural survey of the Technical University of Berlin. In 1952 he became Professor Emeritus and went at the museums in retirement. On 28 July 1956 he died in Berlin.

Of particular importance are Andraes Works The resurrected Assur and his autobiography, Memoirs of an excavator. Walter Andrae also left numerous drawings and watercolors, in addition to the stage designs and representations of oriental landscapes and people as well as reconstruction drawings of the systems of Babylon. A register kept by him guestbook of the excavation site in Babylon shows him as a talented cartoonist and inventor of picture stories.

Publications (selection)

  • Hatra. After photographs of the Assyrian expedition of the German Oriental Society. In part two volumes: General Description of the ruins and detailed description of the ruins, JC Hinrichs ( Scientific Publications of the German Oriental Society 9 and 21 ), Leipzig 1908/12 Reprint: Biblio, Bissendorf 1984, ISBN 3-7648-1808-5 (Part Volume 1 ); 1975, ISBN 3-7648-1809-3 ( volume 2 )
  • Reprint: Biblio, Bissendorf 1984, ISBN 3-7648-1805-0
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1807-7
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-1816-6
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück, 1970, ISBN 3-7648-1806-9
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1968, ISBN 3-7648-1815-8
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1969, ISBN 3-7648-1817-4
  • Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1967
  • Second, revised and expanded edition, ed. Barthel Hrouda: CH Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-02947-7
  • Re: Free Spirit Life, Stuttgart 1964

Posthumously published:

  • Memoirs of a excavator (Edited by Kurt Bittel and Ernst Heinrich), de Gruyter, Berlin 1961 2nd edition: Free Publisher spiritual life, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7725-0457-4
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