Karl Purgold (28 December 1850, in

Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...

– 1939, in Gotha) 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 ...

and

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. In 1878 he received his doctorate from the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's List of universities in Germany, sixth-oldest u ...

, where he was a student of

Heinrich Brunn Heinrich Brunn, since 1882 Ritter von Brunn (23 January 1822, Wörlitz – 23 July 1894, Josephstal near Schliersee, Upper Bavaria) was a German archaeologist. He was known for taking a scientific approach in his investigations of classical Greek ...

. Following graduation, he travelled the

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by way of a grant from the

German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

(1878–80). From 1890 until his retirement in 1934 he was director of the ''Herzogliches Museum Gotha'' (Ducal Museum in Gotha). He took part in the excavations at

Olympia, Greece Olympia ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ολυμπία ; grc, Ὀλυμπία ), officially Archaia Olympia ( el, label=Modern Greek, Αρχαία Ολυμπία; grc, Ἀρχαία Ὀλυμπία, links=no; "Ancient Olympia"), is a small town in E ...

, being tasked with providing analysis of ancient inscriptions. With

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, he edited ''Die inschriften von Olympia'', based on the inscriptions found at Olympia.

Selected works

* ''Archäologische Bemerkungen zu Claudian und Sidonius'', 1878 – Archaeological observations on

Claudian Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (; c. 370 – c. 404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost ent ...

and Sidonius. * ''Die inschriften von Olympia'', edited by W. Dittenberger and K. Purgold; (The inscriptions of Olympia), volume V. of ''Olympia : Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung'' (Olympia : The results of the excavation organized by the German Reich; 1890–97). * ''Das Museum des Herzoglichen Hauses in Gotha'', 1910. * ''Das Herzogliche Museum'', 1937 (with Eberhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg) – The Ducal Museum in Gotha.de.Wikisource
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Purgold 1850 births 1939 deaths People from Gotha (town) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Archaeologists from Thuringia Directors of museums in Germany