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Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (29 November 1795 – 12 May 1867) was a German
archaeologist. He was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society.
Biography
Gerhard was born at
Posen, and was educated at
Breslau and
Berlin
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. The reputation he acquired by his ''Lectiones Apollonianae'' (1816) led soon afterwards to his being appointed professor at the
gymnasium of Posen. On resigning that office in 1819, on account of weakness of the eyes, he went in 1822 to
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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, where he remained for fifteen years.
Gerhard was one of the principal originators of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica,
[ founded at Rome in 1829, with the support of the Prussian crown prince, Frederick William. Co-founders included ]Theodor Panofka
Theodor Sigismund Panofka (25 February 1800, Breslau – 20 June 1858, Berlin) was a German archaeologist, art historian and philologist. He was one of the first scholars to make a systematic study of the pottery of Ancient Greece, and one of the ...
, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg Otto Magnus von Stackelberg may refer to:
* Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (ambassador) (1736–1800), Russian diplomat
* Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (archaeologist) (1786–1837), Estonian archeologist
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and August Kestner
Georg Christian August Kestner (28 November 1777, in Hanover – 5 March 1853, in Rome) was a German diplomat and art collector.
Life
Kestner was the son of civil servant Johann Christian Kestner and his wife Charlotte Buff. Johann Wolfgang von ...
. This model of international cooperation and systematic scientific publication was influenced by the example of Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...
, and later became the present-day German Archaeological Institute
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. Gerhard served as secretary to the new Institute during his stay in Rome.
Returning to Germany in 1837 he was appointed archaeologist at the Royal Museum of Berlin, and was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society
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that same year.American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
/ref> In 1844 he was chosen a member of the Academy of Sciences
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, and a professor in Berlin University.[
He died at ]Berlin
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.[
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Evaluation
''The New International Encyclopædia'' of 1905 gives the following evaluation of his work:
:Gerhard's great service to archæological study was in the publication of important groups of monuments, and in promoting an orderly classification. Such a worker was much needed at this time, when the excavations at Vulci and elsewhere in Etruria increased so suddenly the mass of early vases and other small objects. For artistic beauty and style Gerhard had little perception; his interest was largely antiquarian, and it is characteristic of him that he was attracted by the Etruscan art, generally of little interest to the artist.
Publications
Gerhard contributed to Platner Platner may refer to:
Places
* Platner, Colorado
People
* Ernst Platner (1744–1818), German anthropologist, physician, and philosopher
* Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773–1855), German painter and writer, son of the foregoing
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et al.'s ''Beschreibung der Stadt Rom'' (Description of the city of Rome; Vol. I, 1829). Besides a large number of archaeological papers in periodicals, in the ''Annali'' of the Institute of Rome, and in the ''Transactions'' of the Berlin Academy, and several illustrated catalogues of Greek
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, Roman
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and other antiquities in the Berlin
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, Naples
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and Vatican
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The Holy See
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Museums, Gerhard was the author of the following works:
*''Rapporto intorno i vasi Volcenti'' (1831)
*''Antike Bildwerke'' (Stuttgart, 1827–1844)
*''Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder'' (1839—1858)
*''Griechische und etruskische Trinkschalen'' (1843)
*''Etruskische und campanische Vasenbilder'' (1843)
*''Etruskische Spiegel'' (4 vols., 1843–68; 5th vol. by Klugmann et al., 1897)
*''Apulische Vasen'' (1846)
*''Trinkschalen und Gefässe'' (1850)
*''Hyperboreisch-römische Studien'' (vol. i., 1833; vol. ii., 1852)
*''Prodromus mythologische Kunsterklärung'' (Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1828)
*''Griechische Mythologie'' (1854-1855)
*''Gesammelte akademische Abhandlungen und kleine Schriften
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'', published posthumously (2 vols., Berlin, 1867)
Notes
References
* On websit
Archaeolog - all things archaeological
(password required) at Stanford University, accessed June 26, 2006.
* This work in turn cites:
**Jahn, ''Eduard Gerhard, ein Lebensabriss'' (Berlin 1868)
** Sandys, ''A History of Classical Scholarship'' (Vol. III, Cambridge 1908)
*
Lettre à M. le professeur Edouard Gerhard sur quelques miroirs étrusques.
Par Jean de Witte
Baron Jean Joseph Antoine Marie de Witte (24 February 1808, Antwerp - 29 July 1889, Paris) was a Belgian archeologist, epigraphist and numismatist.
He collaborated with François Lenormant in founding the Gazette archéologique at the Biblioth ...
. Extrait des Nouvelles Annales. Institut d'archéologie. Paris 1838.
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1795 births
1867 deaths
19th-century German archaeologists
People of the Antikensammlung Berlin
Directors of museums in Germany
Humboldt University of Berlin faculty
Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
University of Breslau alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
People from the Grand Duchy of Posen
Writers from Poznań
Members of the American Antiquarian Society