Alwin Schultz (6 August 1838 – 10 March 1909) was a German art historian and

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, professor of art history at the

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Biography

He was born at

Muskau Bad Muskau (; formerly ''Muskau'', hsb, Mužakow, pl, Mużaków, cs, Mužakov) is a spa town in the historic Upper Lusatia region in Germany, at the border with Poland. It is part of the Görlitz district in the State of Saxony. It is located ...

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. He studied

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts ...

and Germanic

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

at the

University of Breslau A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

(1858/59 and 1862–64), and in 1859–61 attended the

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, where he also took drawing classes. In 1866 he became a

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for Christian archaeology and art history at Breslau, where in 1872 he was named an associate professor. In 1882 he was called to the University of Prague as a full professor. Among his publications are a treatise on the

Minnesinger (; "love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature began in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. People who w ...

s in two volumes (1889) and a discussion of Germany in the 14th and

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(1892) as well as a treatise on domestic life in Europe during the

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and the Early Modern period (1903).

Bibliography

* 1868
''Das Rathhaus zu Breslau in seinen äusseren und inneren Ansichten und Details''
(with Carl Lüdecke). * 1869: ''Beschreibung der Breslauer Bilderhandschrift des Froissart'' – Description of the Breslau manuscript of

Froissart Jean Froissart ( Old and Middle French: ''Jehan'', – ) (also John Froissart) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meliador'', a long Arthurian ...

. * 1870: ''Schlesiens Kunstleben im dreizehnten und vierzehnten Jahrhundert'' – Silesian artistic life in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. * 1878: ''Die Legende vom Leben der Jungfrau Maria und ihre Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters'' – The legend of the life of the

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: and its representation in the visual arts of the Middle Ages. * 1882
''Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Schlesischen Maler (1500-1800)''
* 1889: ''Das höfische Leben zur Zeit der Minnesinger'' (2nd edition) – The court life at the time of Minnesinger. * 1892: ''Deutsches Leben im XIV. und XV. Jahrhundert'' (2 vols) – German life in the XIV and XV centuries. * 1894 et seq.: ''Allgemeine Geschichte der bildenden Künste'' – General history of the fine arts. * 1901: ''Kunst und Kunstgeschichte'' (2nd edition) – Art and art history. * 1903: ''Das Häusliche Leben der europäischen Kulturvölker vom Mittelalter bis zur zweiten Hälfte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts'' – The domestic life of the peoples of Europe from the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century. He was the author of biographies on Karl Daniel Friedrich Bach and Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching in the '' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''.Kategorie:ADB:Autor:Alwin Schultz
at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

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Alwin Schultz
de.Wikisource (bibliography) 1838 births 1909 deaths People from Bad Muskau People from the Province of Silesia German art historians German medievalists University of Breslau alumni Charles University faculty University of Breslau faculty {{Germany-art-historian-stub