Joseph Anselm Feuerbach

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Joseph Anselm Feuerbach
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar
Died8 September 1851(1851-09-08) (aged 52)
Scientific career
Fieldsphilology, antiquities and art history
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Joseph Anselm Feuerbach (9 September 1798 – 8 September 1851) was a German

archaeologist
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Biography

Born in

University of Heidelberg (from 1820). In 1825 he began work as a schoolteacher at the gymnasium in Speyer. In 1836 he was appointed professor of philology, antiquities and art history at the University of Freiburg.[1]

His principal work was an archaeological study of the

Family

He was the eldest son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and the father of painter Anselm Feuerbach. His wife from his second marriage, Henriette Feuerbach, was the sister of physician Friedrich Wilhelm Heidenreich.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b ADB:Feuerbach, Anselm von (Archäologe) @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. ^ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Joseph Anselm Feuerbach
  3. ^ Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.