Karl Böttiger
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Archaeologist and Classicist |
Karl August Böttiger (8 June 1760 – 17 November 1835) was a German
Biography
Böttiger was born in
The first of these is private antiquities, best represented by his Sabina, or morning scenes in the dressing room of a wealthy Roman lady (German: Sabina, oder Morgenszenen im Putzzimmer einer reichen Römerin; 1803, 2 vols.; 2nd ed., 1806), which was translated into French and served as a model for
His accomplishments in Dresden led him to be noticed by the court of the Kingdom of Saxony, and he was the Aulic councilor of the kings of Saxony.[4] Böttiger supplied the descriptive letter-press to the 1797 German edition of Tischbein's reproductions from William Hamilton's second collection of Greek vases, and thus introduced the study of Greek vase-painting into Germany. He published lectures on the history of ancient sculpture in 1806, and painting in 1811, and edited the three volumes of an archaeological periodical called Amalthea from 1820 to 1825, which included contributions from the most eminent classical archaeologists of the day.[1]
In 1832 Böttiger was elected a member of the
His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger (15 August 1790 – 26 November 1862; not to be confused with the Swedish writer
Works
- Griechische Vasengemälde (1797–1800)
- Ideen zur Archäologie der Malerei, i. (1811)
- Kunstmythologie (1811)
- Vorlesungen und Aufsätze zur Alterthumskunde (1817)
- Amalthea (1821–1825)
- Ideen zur Kunstmythologie (1826–1836)
- Opuscula et Carmine Latino (1837)
- Kleine Schriften, includes a complete 56-page list of his works (1837–1838)
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9780524034224.
- ^ New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Peck, Harry Thurston (1911). A History of Classical Philology from the Seventh Century, B.C. to the Twelfth Century, A.D. New York: Macmillan & Co. p. 428.
- ^ Strang, John (1831). Germany in MDCCCXXXI. London: John Macrone. pp. 107–108.
- ^ The American Cyclopædia.
- ^ http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek und M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zur online-Ausstellung im Digitalen Münzkabinett des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen, in: S. Krmnicek (Hrsg.), Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm. Neue Serie Bd. 3 (Tübingen 2020), 42-46.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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