Karl Gottlieb Wilhelm Bötticher (29 May 1806,

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– 19 June 1889,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) 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 ...

who specialized in

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

Biography

He was born in

. He studied at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin, and was afterwards appointed an instructor in the School of Design of the Industrial Institute there. In 1844 he was appointed a professor of tectonics (architectonics) at the Academy of Architecture.ADB:Bötticher, Karl
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In 1853 he received his doctorate from the

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, and later worked as a lecturer at the

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(until 1862). In 1868 he was appointed director of the sculpture department at the Berlin Museum.

Works

His chief work is the "''Tektonik der Hellenen''" (Architectonics of the Greeks; 1844–52), a contribution to the study of

Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (''Hellenic'' people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC unti ...

. Others of his works are: * ''Holzarchitektur des Mittelalters'' (Wooden architecture of the Middle Ages; 1835–41). * ''Das grab des Dionysos. An der marmorbasis zu Dresden'', (1858). * ''Der Omphalos des Zeus zu Delphi'', (1859) * ''Bericht über die Untersuchungen auf der Akropolis in

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'' (1863). * ''Der Zophoros am

Parthenon The Parthenon (; grc, Παρθενών, , ; ell, Παρθενώνας, , ) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative sculptures are considere ...

'' (1875).OCLC WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Karl Bötticher * ''Die Thymele der Athena Nike auf der Akropolis von Athen'' (1880).

Notes

References

* * Breitschmid, Markus. ''Can architectural art-form be designed out of construction? Carl Boetticher, Gottfried Semper, and Heinrich Woelfflin: a sketch of various investigations on the nature of "Tectonic" in nineteenth-century architectural theory'', (Blacksburg: Architecture Edition, 2004). 1806 births 1889 deaths Archaeologists from Thuringia People of the Antikensammlung Berlin Directors of museums in Germany People from Nordhausen, Thuringia Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Germany-architect-stub