August or Auguste Emil Braun (April 19, 1809, in

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, Germany – September 12, 1856, in Rome) was a German

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Biography

Braun initially studied

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and philosophy in

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, then continued his education at the

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and in

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. In 1833, he accepted Eduard Gerhard's invitation to Berlin, where he made the decision to devote his career to

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. In the autumn of 1833, he accompanied Gerhard to Rome, where in a short amount of time, he became a librarian, and subsequently secretary to the

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. At the institute, he established a galvano-plastic workshop, from which issued many reproductions of antique art objects and casts of modern works.

Works

*''Il giudizio di Paride'' (Paris, 1838) – The

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. *''Die Kunstvorstellungen des geflügelten Dionysios'' (

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, 1839) - Artistic notions involving the winged

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. *''Tages und des Hercules und der Minerva heilige Hochzeit'' (Munich, 1839) - Day of

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and

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's sacred marriage. *''Antike Marmorwerke'' (

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, 1843) - Antique

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works. *''Die Schale des Kodros'' (Berlin, 1843) - The shell of the Kodros. *''Die Ficoronische Cyste'' (Leipzig, 1850) - The Ficoroni cista. *''Griechische Götterlehre'' (two volumes, Gotha, 1850–54) -

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*''Die Vorschule der Kunstmythologie'' (Gotha, 1854; English trans. by Grant, 1856) *''Die Ruinen und Museen Roms'', (

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, 1853) - Ruins and museums of Rome; a

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.* List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, August Emil 1809 births 1856 deaths Archaeologists from Thuringia People from Gotha (town) University of Göttingen alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni