Hugo Blümner (9 August 1844, in

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– 1 January 1919, in

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) was a German classical

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Biography

Blümner studied with

Otto Jahn Otto Jahn (; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. Biography After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, ...

in Bonn and wrote his doctoral thesis 1866 in Berlin on

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.''De locis Luciani ad artem spectantibus: particula prima''. Berlin Univ., Diss., 1866. (Latin) He taught in the universities of Breslau and

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, and after 1877 was professor in the

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. He is author and editor of many

philological Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and archaeological works, of which the most important are: ''Die gewerbliche Thätigkeit der Völker des klassischen Altertums'' (The commercial activities of the peoples of classical history; 1869), ''Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern'' (Technology and terminology of trade and the arts in Greece and Rome; 4 vols., 1874–88), ''Leben und Sitten der Griechen'' (Life and customs of the Greeks; 1887), ''Der Maximaltarif des Diokletian'', with

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; ; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th ce ...

(1893) and ''Pausaniæ Græciæ Descriptio'' (1896). He revised Hermann's ''Griechische Privataltertümer'' (1881) as well. Among Blümner's doctoral students was the literary scholar and Germanist Emil Ermatinger.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blumner, Hugo 1844 births 1919 deaths German philologists Archaeologists from Berlin Academic staff of the University of Zurich Academic staff of the University of Breslau Academic staff of the University of Königsberg People from the Province of Brandenburg German male writers