Hermann Winnefeld (4 September 1862,

Überlingen Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...

– 30 April 1918,

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) 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 ...

. He studied classics in

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and

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from 1881 to 1884, and subsequently became a research assistant at the ''Großherzogliche Vereinigte Sammlungen'' in

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. In 1887 he received his doctorate from the

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with the thesis "Sortes Sangallenses ineditae". With a scholarship from the

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, he conducted archaeological research in

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and

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from 1887 to 1889.Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10
by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated In 1890 he started work as an assistant at the Berlin Museum, and several years later became an associate professor at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

(1895). In 1896 he returned to Berlin as an assistant manager of museum sculpture collections, and during the following year, began teaching classes at the

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as a non-faculty lecturer. In 1906 he was appointed deputy director of the sculpture collections. His main works include a monograph on

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...

's villa near Tivoli (1895) and a description of the

Pergamon Altar The Pergamon Altar () was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Anatolia, Asia Minor. The structure wa ...

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Selected works

* ''Hypnos; ein archäologischer versuch'', 1886. * ''Beschreibung der Vasensammlung : Großherzogliche Vereinigte Sammlungen zu Karlsruhe'', 1887 – Description of the collection of vases: United Grand Ducal collections in Karlsruhe. * ''Die Villa des Hadrian bei Tivoli'', 1895. * ''Altgriechisches bronzebecken aus Leontini'', 1899. * ''Hellenistische silberreliefs im Antiquarium der Königlichen museen'', 1908 – Hellenistic silver reliefs in the Antiquarium of the Royal Museum. * ''Die Friese des groszen Altars'', 1910. * ''Architektonische Römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit'', 1911 (with

Hermann von Rohden Hermann von Rohden (21 February 1852, in Barmen – 21 February 1916, in Haguenau) was a German educator and classical archaeologist known for his analyses of ancient Roman terracotta artifacts. He studied classical philology, art history and ar ...

) – Roman architectural clay reliefs of the Imperial Period.WorldCat Identities
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winnefeld, Hermann 1862 births 1918 deaths People from Überlingen University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Münster Archaeologists from Baden-Württemberg