Carl Freiherr Haller von Hallerstein by Otto Magnus von Stackelberg

Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Hallerstein (10 June 1774, Burg Hilpoltstein,

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– 5 November 1817, Ampelakia,

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) was a German architect, archaeologist and art historian.

Biography

He was born into a famous Nuremberg noble patrician family, as son of Freiherr (Baron) Karl Joachim Haller von Hallerstein and Sophie Amalie von Imhof. Hallerstein studied architecture at the

Carlsakademie Hohe Karlsschule (''Karl's High School'') was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 f ...

in Stuttgart and then at the Berliner Bauakademie under

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.Haller von Hallerstein, Carl Freiherr
, Dictionary of Art Historians, retrieved June 2010 He was then engaged in 1806 as a royal building inspector in

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. He visited Rome in 1808 to study its early Christian architecture. In June 1810 he accompanied Jakob Linkh (1786–1841),

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(1780-1842), Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1787–1837) and Georg Koës (1782-1811) to

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, via

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, Corfu and

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. In 1811 in Athens he met the English architects

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and John Foster (1786–1846), with whom he studied Athens's ancient buildings. In 1811 he, Linkh and von Stackelberg discovered the

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on the island of

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, a part of whose sculptures are in the Munich

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as a result. In the same year, von Hallerstein (with Cockerell, Gropius, Linckh, Stackelberg, Bröndsted and Foster) excavated the ruins of the temple of Apollo in

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, whose relief frieze was taken to the British Museum by Cockerell. Sadly Haller's drawings were lost at sea.William Bell Dinsmoor, "The Temple of Apollo at Bassae" ''Metropolitan Museum Studies'' 4.2 (March 1933:205-227) p 205 Later he led yet more excavations on Ithaka and in the ruins of the theatre on

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. Haller died in Thessaly in 1817 after catching a fever. He was temporarily buried there but then later moved to

References

Sources

* Klaus Frässle: ''Carl Haller von Hallerstein (1774-1817)''. Freiburg i.Br.: Univ., Philosoph. Fak., Dissertation 1971. * Hansgeorg Bankel: ''Und die Erde gebar ein Lächeln: der erste deutsche Archäologe in Griechenland Carl Haller von Hallerstein 1774 - 1817''. München: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1983. . * Hansgeorg Bankel: ''Carl Haller von Hallerstein in Griechenland 1810 - 1817: Architekt, Zeichner, Bauforscher'' (anlässl. d. Ausstellung Carl Haller von Hallerstein in Griechenland 1810 - 1817: München, Palais Preysing, 14. Februar - 15. März 1986; Nürnberg, Albrecht-Dürerhaus u. Fembohaus, 22. März - 11. Mai 1986; Berlin-Charlottenburg, Antikenmuseum SMPK, 14. Juni - 31. August 1986). Im Auftr. d. Carl-Haller-von-Hallerstein-Ges. hrsg. von Hansgeorg Bankel. Berlin: Reimer, 1986. * R. Lullies, W. Schiering (eds.): ''Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassischen Archäologen deutscher Sprache''.

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