Heinz Kähler

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Heinz Kähler (21 January 1905 in

archaeologist
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Heinz Kähler studied

University of Munich (1937–41) as well as in its museum of casts. His major study of the sculpture of the Great Pergamon Altar appeared in 1942. His professorial dissertation was completed there in 1943 while serving in the German army during World War II
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After the war his study of

Praeneste (1958), both were completed at Saarbrücken. He co-founded with Jacques Moreau the Monumenta Artis Romanae series of publications, writing personally the volume on the statue of Augustus from Prima Porta (1959). In 1960 he succeeded Andreas Rumpf at the University of Cologne in the Institut für Klassische Archäologie. He would teach there until 1973. At Cologne he authored his major work, Rom und sein Imperium (1962), which was translated into English in 1963 and became a widely used text for Roman art. A second volume in the Monumenta Artis Romanae book series on the Gemma Augustea appeared in 1968. Among his many students was the Roman art historian Gerhard Koeppel
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Publications

  • habilitation: Die große Fries von Pergamon. Munich, 1942, published as Der große Fries von Pergamon: untersuchungen zur Kunstgeschichte und Geschichte Pergamons. Published Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1948.
  • Rom und sein Imperium. Baden Baden: Holle, 1962. [English ed., The Art of Rome and her Empire. New York: Crown, 1963].
  • Die Augustusstatue von Primaporta. Monumenta artis Romanae 1. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959.
  • Der Fries vom Reiterdenkmal des Aemilius Paullus in Delphi. Monumenta artis Romanae 5. Berlin: Mann, 1965.
  • Die frühe Kirche: Kult und Kultraum. Berlin: Mann, 1972.
  • Das Griechische Metopenbild. Munich: Besher F. Bruckmann, 1949.
  • Der griechische Tempel: Wesen und Gestalt. Berlin: G. Mann, 1964.
  • Hadrian und seine Villa bei Tivoli. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1950.
  • with Mango, Cyril. Die Hagia Sophia. Berlin: G. Mann, 1967 [English ed., Hagia Sophia. New York: Praeger, 1967].
  • Lindos. Zurich: Raggi-Verlag, 1971.
  • Pergamon. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1949.
  • Die römischen Kapitelle des Rheingebietes. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1939.
  • Die spätantiken Bauten unter dem Dom von Aquileia und ihre Stellung innerhalb der Geschichte des frühchristlichen Kirchenbaues. Saarbrücken: Universität Saarbrücken, 1957.
  • Zwei sockel eines triumphbogens im Boboligarten zu Florenz. Berlin: Leipzig, W. de Gruyter, 1936.
  • Die Gebälke des Konstantinsbegens. vol. 2 of Toebelmann, Fritz. Römische Gebälke. Heildeberg: Carl Winter, 1953.
  • and Voit, Ludwig, and Bengl, Hans. Römisches Erbe: ein Lesebuch lateinischer Literatur. Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1950.
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