Ernst Langlotz (6 July 1895, in Ronneburg – 4 June 1978, in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

) 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, who specialized in

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of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. He studied classical archaeology, philology and art history at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1921. As a student, his influences were archaeologist

Franz Studniczka Franz Studniczka (14 August 1860 – 4 December 1929) was a German professor of classical archaeology born in Jasło, Galicia. He studied classical archaeology in Vienna as a pupil of Otto Benndorf (1838–1907). In 1887 he received his habil ...

(Leipzig) and art historian

Heinrich Wölfflin Heinrich Wölfflin (; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in a ...

(Munich). Following graduation, he took a study trip to Italy and Greece, where he met with

Ernst Buschor Ernst Buschor (Hürben (Krumbach), Hürben, 2 June 1886 – Munich, 11 December 1961) was a German archaeologist and translator. Biography From 1905 he studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwän ...

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. In 1925 he qualified as a lecturer at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

, and subsequently worked as a conservator at the

Martin von Wagner Museum The Martin von Wagner Museum contains the art collection of the University of Würzburg and has been located in the south wing of the Würzburg Residence since 1963. It is among the largest university museums in Europe. History Franz Joseph F ...

.Langlotz, Ernst
In:

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(NDB). Band 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, , S. 607 f.Kraatz - Menges / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
Deutsche Biographische EnzyklopaedieEncyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
by Nancy Thomson de Grummond In 1931 he became an associate professor 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 ...

, and two years later, attained a full professorship in

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. From 1941 to 1963 he was a professor at the

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, where he also served as director of the

Akademisches Kunstmuseum Akademisches Kunstmuseum (English: Academic Art Museum) is an art museum in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the oldest museums in Bonn and houses the antique collection of the University of Bonn with more than 2,700 plaster casts of antique statues a ...

Selected works

* ''Zur Zeitbestimmung der Strengrotfigurigen Vasenmalerei und der gleichzeitigen Plastik'', 1920. * ''Griechische Vasenbilder'', 1922 – Greek vase figures. * ''Die archaischen Marmorbildwerke der Akropolis'' (with

Hans Schrader Johann (Hans) Hermann Schrader (15 February 1869, Stolp – 5 November 1948, Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian. He was a student at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, where he was a pupil of Reinhard Kekulé von S ...

and

Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt (8 March 1900 – 14 January 1976) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian born in Hanover. He specialized in ancient Greek art, particularly sculpture and art from the "Parthenon era" (5th century BC). He wa ...

, 1939) – Archaic marble works of the

Acropolis An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, ...

. * ''Archaische Plastik auf der Akropolis'', 1941 – Archaic sculpture of the Acropolis. * ''Griechische Klassik'', 1946 – Classical Greek. * ''Phidiasprobleme'', 1947 –

Phidias Phidias or Pheidias (; grc, Φειδίας, ''Pheidias''; 480 – 430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias also designed the stat ...

problems. * ''Die Darstellung des Menschen in der griechischen Kunst'', 1948 – The representation of man in Greek art. * ''Alkamenes-Probleme'', 1952 –

Alcamenes Alcamenes ( grc, Ἀλκαμένης) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among w ...

problems. * ''Antike Klassik in heutiger Sicht'', 1956 – The classics from a modern perspective. * ''Die Kunst der Westgriechen in Sizilien und Unteritalien'', 1963 – Art of western Greece in

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and southern Italy. * ''Ancient Greek sculpture of South Italy and Sicily'' (Photos by Max Hirmer, translated by Audrey Hicks; 1965). * ''The art of Magna Graecia : Greek art in southern Italy and Sicily'' (Photos by Max Hirmer, translated by Audrey Hicks; 1965). * ''Studien zur nordostgriechischen Kunst'', 1975 – Studies of northeastern Greek art.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Langlotz, Ernst 1895 births 1978 deaths People from Greiz (district) University of Jena faculty University of Bonn faculty Goethe University Frankfurt faculty Archaeologists from Thuringia German art historians