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.

Life

He studied in Tübingen, Leipzig and Berlin and from 1870 stayed in Greece, Italy and Asia Minor as a stipendary of the German Archaeological Institute. From 1875 to 1877 he led the German excavations at Olympia, for which he was appointed extraordinary professor (1878) then ordinary professor (1880) at the University of Königsberg.

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)

Franz Rühl (1905), "Hirschfeld, Gustav", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 50, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 367–372
Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Hirschfeld, Gustav". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 59446790 LCCN: nr2001030246 ISNI: 0000 0001 1027 7263 GND: 101160097 SUDOC: 07433574X

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