Paul Heinrich August Wolters (1 September 1858 in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

– 21 October 1936 in

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) 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 ...

who specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art. He was the son of

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Albrecht Wolters (1822–1878). He studied

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and archaeology at the Universities of

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and

, obtaining his PhD in 1882. By way of a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), he took a study trip to Italy, Greece and

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(1885–1887). From 1900 to 1908, he was a professor at the

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, and in 1908, succeeded

Adolf Furtwangler Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...

as professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich. Here, he was also director of the Glyptothek Museum. Among his better known students was archaeologist

Ernst Buschor Ernst Buschor (Hürben (Krumbach), Hürben, 2 June 1886 – Munich, 11 December 1961) was a German archaeologist and translator. Biography From 1905 he studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwän ...

. In 1888/89, he performed excavatory work at the Kabeirion of Thebes, a rural sanctuary containing temples and theaters. In 1925, with Gabriel Welter, he conducted an archaeological excavation at

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Kolonna.

Published works

In 1885 he published a new edition of Karl Friederichs' ''Die Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke in historischer Folge erklärt : Bausteine zur Geschichte der griechisch-römischen plastik'' (The plaster casts of ancient sculptures explained in historical sequence, etc.) Other noted works by Wolters include: * ''Mykenische gräber in Kephallenia'',

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, 1894 – Mycenaean tombs in

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. * ''Der westgiebel des olympischen Zeustempels'', Munich, Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1908 – The west gable of the Olympian Zeus. * ''Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig’s I. zu München''. Munich, 1910. * ''Eine Darstellung des athenischen Staatsfriedhofs'', 1913 – A representation of the Athenian state cemetery. * ''Archäologische Bemerkungen'', 1915 – Archaeological comments. * ''Der Geflügelte Seher'', 1928 – The winged seer. * ''Das Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben'', 1940 (with Gerda Bruns) – the Kabeirion sanctuary near Thebes.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Paul Wolters

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolters, Paul 1858 births 1936 deaths Archaeologists from the Kingdom of Prussia Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich People from Bonn Academic staff of the University of Würzburg