Christian Karl Friedrich Hülsen (born in

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...

, 29 November 1858; died in

Florence, Italy Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

, on 19 January 1935) was a German architectural

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

of the

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who later changed to studying the

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and the

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Biography

Hülsen was born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. He studied classical philology, ancient history and archaeology with

Ernst Curtius Ernst Curtius (; 2 September 181411 July 1896) was a German archaeologist, historian and museum director. Biography He was born in Lübeck. On completing his university studies he was chosen by Christian August Brandis, C. A. Brandis to acco ...

Johann Gustav Droysen Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen (; ; 6 July 180819 June 1884) was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men. ...

(1808-1884),

Emil Hübner Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner (7 July 183421 February 1901) was a German classical scholar. He was born at Düsseldorf, the son of the historical painter Julius Hübner (1806–1882). After studying at Berlin and Bonn, he traveled extensively wi ...

(1834-1901),

Johannes Vahlen Johannes Vahlen (27 September 1830 in Bonn – 30 November 1911 in Berlin) was a German classical philologist. He was the father of mathematician Theodor Vahlen (1869–1945). In 1852 he graduated at the University of Bonn, where he studied class ...

(1830-1911), and

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...

(1817-1903). His dissertation, on

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

, was directed by Mommsen and Hübner. Through Mommsen, he was awarded a stipend from the DAI (

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) to travel to Rome where he assisted in the compilation of the ''

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'' for the city of Rome. In 1904 he published his ''Das Forum Romanum'', an important and widely translated work on the

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. As a topographical scholar he gained equal fame with his volume on Roman topography, volume three of ''Topographie der Stadt Rom in Altertum'', appearing in 1907. Despite these accomplishments and his service as second secretary to the DAI in Rome (1887-1909) he was twice denied the appointment of first secretary. In disillusionment, Hülsen left the institute to live in

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, where he changed focus to medieval and renaissance art. In Florence he published studies on the historic drawings of Rome by

Maarten van Heemskerck Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Itali ...

Giuliano da Sangallo Giuliano da Sangallo (c. 1445 – 1516) was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance. He is known primarily for being the favored architect of Lorenzo de' Medici, his patron. In this role, Giulia ...

Giovanni Antonio Dosio Giovanni Antonio Dosio (1533–1611) was an Italian architect and sculptor. Biography Dosio was born in San Gimignano. A student of Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome (1548–75) and Flo ...

and other artists. In 1927 his study on the churches of medieval Rome and published ''Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo''. Like his other books in many disparate fields, it represented significant original scholarship. He remained in Florence for the remainder of his life except for five years as professor at the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

. He was the recipient of honorary degrees from Oxford, Erlangen, and New York. Hülsen died in Florence.

Works

#''Varronianae doctrinae quaenam in Ovidii fastis vestigia extent''. Berlin: Goetsch und Mann, 1880 ( dissertation). # with

Henri Jordan Henri Jordan (30 September 1833, Berlin – 10 November 1886, Königsberg) was a German classical scholar who specialized in Roman archaeological topography. He was a son-in-law to historian Johann Gustav Droysen. He attended Joachimsthalsche ...

: ''Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum''. Volume I, part 3. Berlin:

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, 1907. #''Le chiese di Roma nel medio evo, cataloghi ed appunti''. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1927; the bulk of it is online a
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Reprint Hildesheim: Olms, 1975, . #with

Heinrich Kiepert Heinrich Kiepert (July 31, 1818 – April 21, 1899) was a German geographer. Early life and education Kiepert was born in Berlin. He traveled frequently as a youth with his family and documented his travels by drawing. His family was friends wit ...

: ''Formae Urbis Romae antiquae''. 1896, (English ed., ''The Forum and the Palatine''. New York: A. Bruderhausen, 1909). #''Das

Forum Romanum The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum ( it, Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient ...

'' 1904; online, complete in Italian and partial in English, a
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#''Die Skizzenbücher des Marten van Heemskerck''. Berlin: J. Bard, 1912-1916. #''Römische Antikengärten des XVI. Jahrhunderts'', 1917. # edited: ''Das Skizzenbuch des Giovannantonio Dosio im Staatlichen Kupferstichkabinett zu Berlin''. Berlin: H. Keller, 1933. # ''Le monument païen et la topographie du lieu''. In: ''Sainte Marie Antique''. Rome: M. Bretschneider, 1911, pp. 61–70. # ed., with

Ernst Robert Fiechter Ernst Robert Fiechter (28 October 1875, in Basel – 19 April 1948, in St. Gallen) was a Swiss architect and archaeologist. He is remembered for his research of ancient Greek temple and theatre architecture. He was a cousin to psychologist Carl Gust ...

: ''Römische Gebälke''. Toebelmann-Stiftung der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1923.

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