Franz Winter (4 February 1861 in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

– 11 February 1930 in

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) was a German

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 specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art, being particularly known for his analyses of individual statues, such as the

Apollo Belvedere The ''Apollo Belvedere'' (also called the ''Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere'', or ''Pythian Apollo'') is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity. The ''Apollo'' is now thought to be an original Roman creation of Hadrianic ...

. He studied

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

in Zurich, Munich and

, receiving his doctorate in 1885 with a dissertation on the playwright Plautus. By way of a suggestion from Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, he was tasked by the directorate of the German Archaeological Institute with compiling a typological catalog of classical terracotta works. Beginning in 1890, he worked with Kekulé at the Royal Museums in Berlin, followed by professorships at Innsbruck (from 1897) Graz (from 1905) and Strasbourg (from 1907). In 1912 he succeeded Georg Loeschcke as chair of archaeology at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

Selected works

* "Plauti Fabularum deperditarum fragmenta", (lost fragments of Titus Maccius Plautus), 1885. * ''Die jüngeren attischen Vasen und ihr Verhältnis zur grossen Kunst'', 1885 – The newer Attican vases and their relationship to major art. * ''Eine attische Lekythos des Berliner Museums'', 1895 – An Attican Lekythos of the Berlin Museum. * ''Altertümer von Hierapolis'' (with

Carl Humann Carl Humann (first name also ''Karl''; 4 January 1839 – 12 April 1896) was a German engineer, architect and archaeologist. He discovered the Pergamon Altar. Biography Early Years Humann was born in Steele, part of today's Essen - Germany ...

; Conrad Cichorius; Walther Judeich), 1898 – Antiquities of

Hierapolis Hierapolis (; grc, Ἱεράπολις, lit. "Holy City") was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city. Its location was centred upon the remarkable and copious hot springs in classica ...

. * ''Kunstgeschichte in Bildern ; systematische Darstellung der Entwickelung der bildenden Kunst vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts'', (with Georg Dehio) 5 volumes, 1898–1902. – Art history in pictures; systematic exposition on the development of visual art from classical antiquity to the end of the 18th century. * ''Die Skulpturen mit Ausnahme der Altarreliefs'', 1908 – Sculpture, with the exception of altar reliefs. * ''Der tod des Archimedes'', 1924 – The death of

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.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Franz Winter

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winter, Franz 1861 births 1930 deaths Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck Academic staff of the University of Graz Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the University of Bonn Archaeologists from Lower Saxony German art historians People from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick German male non-fiction writers Classical archaeologists Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences