Emil Reisch (28 September 1863,

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– 13 December 1933, Vienna) was an Austrian classical philologist and archaeologist.

Biography

From 1881 he studied at the

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, where his instructors were Wilhelm von Hartel and Karl Schenkl for philology, and

Otto Benndorf Otto Benndorf (13 September 1838 – 2 January 1907) was a German-Austrian archaeologist who was a native of Greiz, Principality of Reuss-Greiz. He was the father of physicist Hans Benndorf (1870–1953). He studied under Friedrich Gottlieb ...

for classical archaeology. In 1886/87 he conducted archaeological research in Greece, and in 1888 he visited Italy. In 1890 he relocated to the

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as an associate professor of classical archaeology (full professor, 1894). In 1898 he succeeded Otto Benndorf as professor of archaeology at the University of Vienna, where later, he was appointed dean (1910/11) and

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(1916/17).Reisch, Emil
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, , S. 383 f. In 1907 he was named vice-director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), where three years later, he replaced Robert von Schneider as director. Under his leadership, the institute conducted excavations at

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(from 1910) and

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(from 1914) in Greece, and resumed excavatory work at

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(from 1911). He also directed archaeological work to be done along the Adriatic coastlands and southern Alpine regions of the empire. After

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, he was in charge of excavations at

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(

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), Lauriacum ( Enns) and

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( Zollfeld) in Austria.

Selected works

* ''Griechische Weihgeschenke'', 1890 – Greek votive offerings. * ''Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Alterthümer in Rom'', 1891 (main author:

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) – Guide to the public collections of classical antiquities in

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. * ''Die mykenische Frage'', 1894 – The Mycenaean question. * ''Das griechische Theater : Beitrage zur Geschichte des Dionysos-Theaters in Athen und anderer griechischer Theater'' (with Wilhelm Dörpfeld), 1896 – The Greek theater: contributions to the history of the

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theater in

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and other Greek theaters. * ''Ithaka'', 1896 – Ithaca. * ''Athene Hephaistia'', in: ''Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien'', vol. 1, 1898, pp. 55–93 – Hephesteum in Athens.HathiTrust Digital Library
published works

References

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