Heinrich Brunn, since 1882 Ritter von Brunn (23 January 1822,

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– 23 July 1894, Josephstal near Schliersee, Upper Bavaria) was a German

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. He was known for taking a scientific approach in his investigations of classical Greek and Roman art, being credited with introducing the method of determining the date and source of sculptural fragments by way of thorough analysis of the account of anatomic detail.A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art
(biography of Brunn).

Biography

Brunn studied archaeology and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was influenced by the teachings of

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(1784-1868) and

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(1806-1876). In 1843 he received his doctorate degree with the work ''Artificum liberae Graeciae tempora'', afterwards moving to Rome, where for several years he was associated with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 1853, he received an appointment at Bonn, but within a few years, returned to Rome as second secretary of the DAI, serving under

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(1816-1887). In 1865 he was chosen inaugural professor for archaeology at the

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. Among his pupils were

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, Adolf Furtwängler, Heinrich Wölfflin,

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and

Heinrich Bulle Heinrich Bulle (11 December 1867 – 6 April 1945) was a German archaeologist born in Bremen. He studied classical archaeology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn (1822–1894). From 1898 to 1902, he ...

. From 1865 up until his death in 1894, he was director of the Glyptothek in Munich, publishing in 1868, a guide to the museum, called ''Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig's I. zu München''. For a number of years, he collected artwork for the Glyptothek, being instrumental in making the museum an important center for the study of

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. Brunn's impressive collection of casts at the Glyptothek was destroyed during World War II (1944). He was co-founder of ''Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Skulptur in historischer Anordung'' (1888), and was author of ''Geischichte der griechischen Künstler'', a publication that helped establish a chronology of ancient Greek art history. His collection of smaller works, ''Heinrich Brunn's kleine Schriften gesammelt'' (1898–1906), was published in three volumes after his death. Medaille Heinrich von Brunn 1893

He was ennobled, becoming Heinrich von Brunn, by the Bavarian Government in 1882. In 1893 he received a medal in occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary.http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek und M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zu
online-Ausstellung im Digitalen Münzkabinett des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen
in: S. Krmnicek (Hrsg.), Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm. Neue Serie Bd. 3 (Tübingen 2020), 56f.

References

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

* Parts of this article are based on translated text from an equivalent article at the Deutsche Wikipedia: Heinrich Brunn. 1822 births 1894 deaths Archaeologists from Saxony-Anhalt Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty People from Wittenberg (district) University of Bonn alumni {{Germany-academic-bio-stub