Franz Botho Graef (12 October 1857,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

– 9 April 1917,

Königstein im Taunus Königstein im Taunus () is a health spa and lies on the thickly wooded slopes of the Taunus in Hesse, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Owing to its advantageous location for both scenery and transport on the ed ...

) was a German

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

and art historian. His father was painter Gustav Graef, and his sister, Sabine Lepsius, was also an artist of some note. Graef taught at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

from 1904 until 1917.

Writings

* ''Hodlers und Hofmanns Wandbilder in der Universität Jena''. Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena, 1910. * ''

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

'' In: Der Bücherwurm. Monatsschrift für Bücherfreunde. Verlag der Bücherwurm, Dachau, 1913. * Written with Ernst Langlotz: ''Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen'', Bd. I-II, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1925-1933 (posthum).

References

Biographie Stadt Jena
* 1857 births 1917 deaths German art historians Archaeologists from Berlin Writers from Berlin Academic staff of the University of Jena German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-archaeologist-stub