Georg Lippold (21 February 1885 – 23 July 1954) was a German classical
archaeologist born in
Mainz
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. Lippold was a specialist of ancient
Greek
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and
Roman art
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.
He studied at the Universities of
Berlin
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and
Munich
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. He was one of the last students of
Adolf Furtwängler
Johann Michael Adolf Furtwängler (30 June 1853 – 10 October 1907) was a German archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director. He was the father of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and grandfather of the German archaeologist Andr ...
(1852–1907), who was an important influence to Lippold's career. Following graduation he worked at the
Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, and in 1910–11 at the
Martin von Wagner Museum in
Würzburg
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Würzburg ...
. In 1920 he relocated to the
University of Erlangen
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as a lecturer, where he later served as a full professor of
archaeology
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(1925-1953).
Lippold succeeded
Walther Amelung Walther Oskar Ernst Amelung (15 October 1865 – 12 September 1927) was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Stettin. Amelung specialized in investigations of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.
Starting in 1884 he studied at the U ...
(1865–1927) as cataloguer of sculptures at the
Vatican
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, publishing in 1936, ''Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums''. His second volume involving Vatican sculpture was published posthumously in 1956.
After the death of
archaeologist Paul Arndt
Paul Julius Arndt (14 October 1865 – 17 July 1937) was a German classical archaeologist born in Dresden.
He studied classical art under Johannes Overbeck (1826-1895) at the University of Leipzig, and classical archeology with Heinrich Brunn ( ...
in 1937, he took over editorship of ''Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur'' ("Greek and Roman Sculpture"), as well as ''Griechische und römische Porträts'' ("Greek and Roman Portraits"). In 1923, he published "''Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen''", a comprehensive examination on the "copy system" of ancient Greek statues.
Despite his outspoken opposition to Hitler and
National Socialism
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, Lippold retained his professorship at
Erlangen
Erlangen (; East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 116,062 inhab ...
.
Selected publications
* ''Griechische Porträtstatuen'', (Greek portrait statues), Munich 1912.
* ''Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen'' (Copies and transformations of Greek statues), Munich 1923.
* ''Griechische Plastik , Handbuch der Archäologie'' (Greek sculpture, Textbook of archaeology), Munich 1950.
References
Dictionary of Art Historians(biography)
Archaeologists from Rhineland-Palatinate
People from Mainz
Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1885 births
1954 deaths
People from Rhenish Hesse
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