Hugo Blümner (9 August 1844, in
Berlin – 1 January 1919, in
Zürich) was a German
classical 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 ...
and
philologist.
Biography
Blümner studied with
Otto Jahn in Bonn and wrote his doctoral thesis 1866 in Berlin on
Lucian
Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer
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.
[''De locis Luciani ad artem spectantibus: particula prima''. Berlin Univ., Diss., 1866. (Latin)] He taught in the universities of
Breslau and
Königsberg, and after 1877 was professor in the
University of Zürich. He is author and editor of many
philological and archaeological works, of which the most important are: ''Die gewerbliche Thätigkeit der Völker des klassischen Altertums'' (The commercial activities of the peoples of classical history; 1869), ''Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern'' (Technology and terminology of trade and the arts in Greece and Rome; 4 vols., 1874–88), ''Leben und Sitten der Griechen'' (Life and customs of the Greeks; 1887), ''Der Maximaltarif des Diokletian'', with
Theodor Mommsen (1893) and ''Pausaniæ Græciæ Descriptio'' (1896). He revised
Hermann's ''Griechische Privataltertümer'' (1881) as well.
Among Blümner's doctoral students was the literary scholar and Germanist
Emil Ermatinger.
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1844 births
1919 deaths
German philologists
Archaeologists from Berlin
Academic staff of the University of Zurich
Academic staff of the University of Breslau
Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
People from the Province of Brandenburg
German male writers