Karl Theodor Richard Bohn (29 December 1849 – 22 August 1898 in Görlitz) was a German archaeological

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born in

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. Beginning in 1868, he studied

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in Berlin, and in 1877 participated in the archaeological dig at Olympia with Friedrich Adler. In 1879 he surveyed the Propylaea in

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, and later the same year, began work at the

Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum ( or ; grc-gre, Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia. It is located from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on th ...

excavation site.Bohn, Karl Theodor Richard
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie Among his duties at Pergamon, was ascertainment of the original architectural form and measurements of the

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. In 1887 he was named managing director of the ''Baugewerkschule'' in Nienburg, and from 1895 onward, worked in the same capacity in Görlitz.

Published works

* ''Der Tempel der Athena Polias zu Pergamon'' (''Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin'' 1881:4) (Berlin 1882) – The temple of

Athena Polias Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded ...

at Pergamon. () * ''Die Propylaeen der Akropolis zu Athen'' (Berlin 1882) – The Propylaea of the Acropolis at Athens. () * ''Der Tempel des Dionysos zu Pergamon'' (Berlin 1885) – The temple of

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at Pergamon. * ''Das Heiligtum der Athena Polias Nikephoros'' (''Altertümer von Pergamon'' II) (Berlin 1886), with Hans Droysen - The sanctuary of

at Pergamon. () * ''Altertümer von Aegae'' (''Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Ergänzungsheft'' 2) (Berlin 1889), with Carl Schuchhardt - Antiquities of Aegae. () * ''Die Theater-Terrasse'' (''Altertümer von Pergamon'' IV) ((Berlin 1896) - The theatre terrace at Pergamon. ()

References

''Richard Bohn''
translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 1849 births 1898 deaths Architects from Berlin Archaeologists from Berlin 19th-century German architects {{Germany-architect-stub