Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (24 January 1816 – 27 January 1887) was a German

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and

epigraphist Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

born in Bremen. He studied

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at the Universities of

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and

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, afterwards traveling to Paris and London, where he furthered his education by becoming fluent in French and English. With

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(1784-1868), he undertook archaeological investigations in Italy and

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, and in 1842 settled in Rome, where in 1856 he succeeded

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(1809-1856) as first secretary of the ''

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'' (German Archaeological Institute). From 1876 onward, he was a member of the '' Accademia dei Lincei''. Henzen was a leading authority on Latin epigraphy. With

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(1817-1903) and

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(1822-1894), he carried out plans for a universal "'' Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum''" based on a scheme presented to the Berlin Academy by Mommsen in 1847. Also, he provided a supplemental volume to

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's collection of Latin inscriptions, "''Inscriptionum latinarum collectio''" (1856).

Selected works

* "Quaestionum polybianarum specimen, continens vitam...", Berolini: Brandes & Klewert, 1840. * "Tabula alimentaria Baebianorum : illustravit deque publicis Romanorum alimentis" (dissertation), 1845. * ''Iscrizione onoraria d'Adriano / illustrata da G. Henzen'', Roma : Tipografia tiberina, 1862. * ''Scavi nel bosco sacro de' fratelli Arvali'', 1869. * ''Wilhelm Henzen und das Institut auf dem Kapitol'', (with

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and Hans-Georg Kolbe).IDREF.fr
bibliography Grave of Wilhelm Henzen at the Cimitero acattolico Rome

References

Wikisource, ''Henzen, Wilhelm''
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie German philologists Latin epigraphers 1816 births 1887 deaths Writers from Bremen {{Germany-linguist-stub