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Ludwig Lindenschmit (the Elder) (September 4, 1809 – February 14, 1893) was a German 
He studied art in
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history painter
History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...
, prehistorian
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and art instructor who was a native of Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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. He was a younger brother to history painter Wilhelm Lindenschmit (1806–1848), and father to prehistorian Ludwig Lindenschmit (the Younger) (1850–1922).
He studied art in Vienna
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and Munich
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, and beginning in 1831, was a high school art teacher in his hometown of Mainz. Here, he taught classes in art until the 1870s, and as his career progressed, his interest in prehistoric Germanic antiquities grew.
In 1848 he published ''Das Germanische Totenlager von Selzen
Selzen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Selzen lies between Mainz and Worms ...
'', an important treatise on Germanic sepulchral mounds. In 1851, he became head of the Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. Lindenschmit was an outspoken critic of the "three-age system
The three-age system is the periodization of human pre-history (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age; although the concept may also refer to ...
" developed by archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (29 December 1788 – 21 May 1865) was a Danish antiquarian who developed early archaeological techniques and methods.
In 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the Nat ...
(1788–1865).
With anatomist
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Alexander Ecker
Johann Alexander Ecker (10 July 1816 – 20 May 1887) was a German anthropologist and anatomist, born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the son of Johann Matthias Alexander Ecker (1766–1829), a professor at the University of Freiburg.
Biograp ...
(1816–1887), he founded the ''Archiv für Anthropologie''. As a painter, he assisted his brother, Wilhelm, with the historic frescoes at Hohenschwangau
Hohenschwangau is a former village and now an urban district of the municipality of Schwangau, Ostallgäu district, Bavaria, Germany.
It is located between Schloss Neuschwanstein and Schloss Hohenschwangau and is visited by about 2 million pe ...
Castle in the Ostallgäu
Ostallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu, Augsburg, Landsberg, Weilheim-Schongau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and by the Au ...
district .
Selected publications
* ''Das Germanische Totenlager von Selzen'' (1848). * ''Die Altertümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit'' (1858–90). * ''Die Altertümer der merovingischen Zeit'' (1880–89). * ''Tracht und Bewaffnung des römischen Heeres während der Kaiserzeit'' (1882).References
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