Wilhelm Henzen
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (24 January 1816 – 27 January 1887) was a German
epigraphist born in Bremen
.
He studied
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute). From 1876 onward, he was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei
.
Henzen was a leading authority on Latin epigraphy. With Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822-1894), he carried out plans for a universal "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum" based on a scheme presented to the Berlin Academy by Mommsen in 1847.[1] Also, he provided a supplemental volume to Johann Caspar von Orelli's collection of Latin inscriptions, "Inscriptionum latinarum collectio" (1856).
Selected works
- "Quaestionum polybianarum specimen, continens vitam...", Berolini: Brandes & Klewert, 1840.
- "Tabula alimentaria Baebianorum : illustravit deque publicis Romanorum alimentis" (dissertation), 1845.
- Iscrizione onoraria d'Adriano / illustrata da G. Henzen, Roma : Tipografia tiberina, 1862.
- Scavi nel bosco sacro de' fratelli Arvali, 1869.
- Wilhelm Henzen und das Institut auf dem Kapitol, (with Eduard Gerhard and Hans-Georg Kolbe).[2]
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