Alfred Brueckner

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Alfred Brueckner (7 September 1861, in Magdeburg – 15 January 1936, in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist. He was a specialist in Greek funerary art.

In 1886, he obtained his PhD at the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Adolf Michaelis. From 1888 to 1890, via a travel scholarship from the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (DAI), he visited Greece and Asia Minor. Until 1924 (year of retirement) he taught classes at Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium [de] in Schöneberg. He was a member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (since 1892) and the Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.[1]

In 1893, under Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he participated in excavatory work at Troy,[2] and for a number of years, conducted excavations at Kerameikos in Athens.[3] He made significant contributions as an editor of Alexander Conze's Die attischen grabreliefs, a project involving Attican funerary reliefs (1893-1922).[4]

Selected works[edit]

  • Ornament und Form der attischen Grabstelen Strasbourg 1886 (dissertation) – Ornamentalism and form pertaining to Attican grave stelae.
  • Von den griechischen Grabreliefs, gearbeitet auf Grund des akademischen Apparates der Sammlung der Grabreliefs. 1888 – Greek grave reliefs, etc.
  • Ein attischer Friedhof (with Erich Pernice), 1883 – An Attican cemetery.
  • Anakalypteria, 1904.
  • Der Friedhof am Eridanos bei der Hagia Triada zu Athen, 1909 – The cemetery of Eridanus by the Hagia Triada of Athens.[5][6]
  • Kerameikos-Studien, Kerameikos studies, 1910.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Paragraph based on translated text of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia", source listed as: Rudolf WH Pricks: Alfred Brueckner . In: Reinhard Lullies, Wolfgang sliding ring (eds.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists German language . Saverne, Mainz, 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6, pp 144-145.
  2. ^ OCLC WorldCat Troja 1893, Bericht über die im Jahre 1893 in Troja
  3. ^ Greek Travel Pages Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Archaeological Site of Kerameikos
  4. ^ The Online Books Page Die attischen grabreliefs
  5. ^ OCLC Classify publications
  6. ^ de.Wikisource bibliography of Alfred Brueckner
  7. ^ Google Books Kerameikos-Studien

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