Heinz Kähler (21 January 1905 in
Tetenbüll
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Geography and transport
Tetenbüll lies about 8 km northwest of Tönning and 12 km northeast of St. Peter-Ording on the Eiderstedt peni ...
,
Germany
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– 9 January 1974 in
Cologne
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, Germany) was an ancient
art historian
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Traditionally, the ...
and
archaeologist
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.
Heinz Kähler studied
classical archaeology and art history at the university of
Freiburg
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in
Breisgau
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. He studied under
Hans Dragendorff
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(1870–1941) and completed his dissertation in 1929. Upon being granted a travel stipend from the
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
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, Kähler traveled during 1930–31 in
France
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,
Spain
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,
Greece
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,
Rome
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and
Asia Minor
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. He returned to
Germany
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, where he worked at the
Pergamon Museum
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in
Berlin
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(1936–37). Afterwards, he was assistant to the Archaeological Seminar of
Ernst Buschor at the
University of Munich
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(1937–41) as well as in its museum of casts. His major study of the sculpture of the Great
Pergamon Altar
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appeared in 1942. His professorial dissertation was completed there in 1943 while serving in the
German
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army during
World War II
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.
After the war his study of
Hadrian
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's villa at
Tivoli appeared in 1950. He was appointed professor of classical archaeology at the
University of Saarbrücken (1953–1960). His work on the
Arch of Constantine
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in
Rome
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(1953) and the Temple of
Fortuna Primigenia of
Praeneste
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(1958), both were completed at Saarbrücken. He co-founded with
Jacques Moreau the ''Monumenta Artis Romanae'' series of publications, writing personally the volume on the statue of
Augustus
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from
Prima Porta (1959). In 1960 he succeeded
Andreas Rumpf at the
University of Cologne
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in the
Institut für Klassische Archäologie. He would teach there until 1973. At Cologne he authored his major work, ''Rom und sein Imperium'' (1962), which was translated into English in 1963 and became a widely used text for Roman art. A second volume in the ''Monumenta Artis Romanae'' book series on the
Gemma Augustea
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appeared in 1968. Among his many students was the Roman art historian
Gerhard Koeppel.
Publications
*
habilitation
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: ''Die große Fries von Pergamon''. Munich, 1942, published as ''Der große Fries von Pergamon: untersuchungen zur Kunstgeschichte und Geschichte Pergamons''. Published Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1948.
* ''Rom und sein Imperium''. Baden Baden: Holle, 1962.
nglish ed., ''The Art of Rome and her Empire''. New York: Crown, 1963
* ''Die Augustusstatue von Primaporta. Monumenta artis Romanae 1''. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959.
* ''Der Fries vom Reiterdenkmal des Aemilius Paullus in Delphi. Monumenta artis Romanae 5''. Berlin: Mann, 1965.
* ''Die frühe Kirche: Kult und Kultraum''. Berlin: Mann, 1972.
* ''Das Griechische Metopenbild''. Munich: Besher F. Bruckmann, 1949.
* ''Der griechische Tempel: Wesen und Gestalt''. Berlin: G. Mann, 1964.
* ''Hadrian und seine Villa bei Tivoli''. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1950.
* with Mango, Cyril. ''Die Hagia Sophia''. Berlin: G. Mann, 1967
nglish ed., ''Hagia Sophia''. New York: Praeger, 1967
* ''Lindos''. Zurich: Raggi-Verlag, 1971.
* ''Pergamon''. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1949.
* ''Die römischen Kapitelle des Rheingebietes''. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1939.
* ''Die spätantiken Bauten unter dem Dom von Aquileia und ihre Stellung innerhalb der Geschichte des frühchristlichen Kirchenbaues''. Saarbrücken: Universität Saarbrücken, 1957.
* ''Zwei sockel eines triumphbogens im Boboligarten zu Florenz''. Berlin: Leipzig, W. de Gruyter, 1936.
* ''Die Gebälke des Konstantinsbegens''. vol. 2 of Toebelmann, Fritz. ''Römische Gebälke''. Heildeberg: Carl Winter, 1953.
* and Voit, Ludwig, and Bengl, Hans. ''Römisches Erbe: ein Lesebuch lateinischer Literatur''. Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1950.
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1905 births
1974 deaths
Archaeologists from Schleswig-Holstein
Academic staff of Saarland University
Academic staff of the University of Cologne
People from Nordfriesland
University of Freiburg alumni