Fritz Eichler (October 12, 1887 - January 16, 1971) was an Austrian

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

. He was born in

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...

, where he graduated in 1910, and studied in Berlin, England, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor, and was active from 1913 to 1933 as the antiquity collector at the ''

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

'', the art history museum in Vienna. From 1933 to 1935, he was the director of the antiquity collection. Before his retirement, he was the first director of the museum from 1951 to 1952. He was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Vienna. He teamed up with Otto Walter and became a director of the , the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He managed the excavations at

Ephesus Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἔφεσος, Éphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, 𒀀𒉺𒊭, Apaša) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in t ...

and took the institute at Athens. He excavated until 1961, he applied for the management of the OEAI until 1969. His research concerned antiques from the small art to the sculptures connected with Ephesus. He died in Vienna.

Works

*''Führer durch die Antikensammlung'', 1926 *''Die Skulpturen des Heraions von Argos'', in ''Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts'' 19/29, 1929 p. 15 *''Die Reliefs des Heroon von Gjölbaschi-Trysa'', 1950 *Kunsthistorisches Museum I, ''Die rotfigurigen attischen Trinkgefäße und Pyxiden'', 1951 *''Die Bronzestatue aus Ephesos in verbesserter Wiederherstellung'' = in ''JbKS'', Vienna, 1953, p. 15 *Kunsthistorisches Museum I, ''Rotfigurige attische Vorratsgefäße'', 1959 *''Nochmals die Sphinxgruppe von Ephesos'', in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 45, 1960, p. 5 *''Zum Partherdenkmal von Ephesos''. Rohrer, 1971, p. 102

References

* R. Noll, ''AlmanachWien''; 121, 1971, p . 341 (with listings) * E. Kunze, ''JbMünchen'', 1972, p. 234 * R. Noll in Reinhard Lullies: '' Archäologenbildnisse'', von Zabern, Mainz, 1988, p. 240 * Manfred Kandler, Gudrun Wlach ''100 Jahre Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut 1898-1998'', Vienna, 1998, p. 115, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Eichler, Fritz Austrian archaeologists Austrian expatriates in Germany Austrian expatriates in the United Kingdom Austrian expatriates in Italy Austrian expatriates in Greece Austrian expatriates in Turkey Scientists from Graz 1887 births 1971 deaths 20th-century archaeologists Archaeologists from Austria-Hungary