Richard Delbrück (; 14 July 1875,

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

– 22 August 1957,

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) was a German classical archaeologist who specialized in the field of ancient Roman portraiture.

Career

In 1899 he graduated from the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

, where he was a student of Georg Loeschcke. From 1911 to 1915, he was head of the ''

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

'' (DAI) in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. He was later a professor of classical archaeology at the Universities of

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(1922–1928) and Bonn (1928–1940).

Selected works

* ''Hellenistische bauten in Latium'' – Hellenistic buildings in

Latium Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Definition Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on w ...

. * ''Antike Porträts'', 1912 – Classical portraiture. * ''Bildnisse römischer kaiser'', 1914 – Portraits of Roman emperors. * ''Die Consulardiptychen und verwandte Denkmäler'', 1926 – The

consular diptych In Late Antiquity, a consular diptych was a type of diptych intended as a de-luxe commemorative object. The diptychs were generally in ivory, wood or metal and decorated with rich relief sculpture. A consular diptych was commissioned by a ''consu ...

and related monuments. * ''Antike porphyrwerke'', 1932 – Ancient porphyry works. * ''Spätantike Kaiserporträts von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs'', 1933 – Late ancient Roman Imperial portraits: From Constantine Magnus until the end of the

Western Roman Empire The Western Roman Empire comprised the western provinces of the Roman Empire at any time during which they were administered by a separate independent Imperial court; in particular, this term is used in historiography to describe the period ...

. * ''Probleme der Lipsanothek in Brescia'', 1952 – treatise on the

Lipsanotheca A lipsanotheca (Italian ''lipsanoteca'') is a reliquary, specifically a small box containing the actual relics inside a reliquary. The term derives from Greek through Late Latin. It has also come to be applied to monumental displays of relics. In ...

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Delbruck, Richard 1875 births 1957 deaths Writers from Jena People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Archaeologists from Thuringia Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Giessen