Otto Walter (1882, in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

– 1965, in Parsch in the state of

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) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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 ...

. From 1908 until 1938 he worked at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens. After the

Anschluss The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...

he worked at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. He became a professor in 1945 at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

. He was a professor in

in 1948 and again at Vienna from 1951 to 1953 with

Josef Keil Josef Keil (13 October 1878 – 13 December 1963) was an Austrian historian, epigrapher and an archaeologist. Keil was born on 13 October 1878 in Reichenberg, northern Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He studied classical literature, epigraphy and ...

, director of the Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, lit. the Austrian Archaeological institutes.

References

* Archäologenbildnisse, lit. Archaeological portraits (1988) 214 f. H. Kenner Austrian archaeologists Austrian expatriates in Greece Scientists from Vienna 1882 births 1965 deaths 20th-century archaeologists {{Austria-archaeologist-stub