Gustav Hirschfeld

Gustav Hirschfeld
Gustav Hirschfeld
	Gustav Hirschfeld
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Gustav Hirschfeld (4 November 1847, Pyritz – 10 April 1895, Wiesbaden) was a German classical archaeologist. He was the great-uncle of Walter Benjamin.^[1]

Life

Born into a

ordinary professor (1880) at the University of Königsberg

.

Works

Tituli statuarum sculptorumque graecorum (Berlin 1871)
Athena und Marsyas (Berlin 1872)
Paphlagonische Felsengräber (Berlin 1885)
Berichte über alte Geographie (1885)
Die Felsenreliefs in Kleinasien und das Volk der Hittiter (1887)
Griechische Inschriften des Britischen Museums (1893)
he contributed to the first two volumes of Ausgrabungen zu Olympia (Berlin 1877-78)
From 1884 he wrote on the geographical investigation of ancient culture in the Geographischen Jahrbuch
Aus dem Orient (posthumously published 1897)

Literature

Franz Rühl (1905), "Hirschfeld, Gustav", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 50, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 367–372
New International Encyclopedia
(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

References

^ Howard Eiland, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Harvard University Press (2014), p. 20
^ Jonathan M. Hess, Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity, Stanford University Press (2010), p. 201

[1] Howard Eiland, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Harvard University Press (2014), p. 20

[2] Jonathan M. Hess, Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity, Stanford University Press (2010), p. 201

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