Franz Winter (4 February 1861 in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

– 11 February 1930 in

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) was a German

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

. He specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art, being particularly known for his analyses of individual statues, such as the

Apollo Belvedere The ''Apollo Belvedere'' (also called the ''Belvedere Apollo'', ''Apollo of the Belvedere'', or ''Pythian Apollo'') is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is ...

. He studied

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

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and

, receiving his doctorate in 1885 with a dissertation on the playwright

Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus ( ; 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andro ...

. By way of a suggestion from Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, he was tasked by the directorate of the German Archaeological Institute with compiling a typological catalog of classical terracotta works. Beginning in 1890, he worked with Kekulé at the Royal Museums in Berlin, followed by professorships at

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

(from 1897)

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(from 1905) and

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(from 1907). In 1912 he succeeded Georg Loeschcke as chair of archaeology at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

Selected works

* "Plauti Fabularum deperditarum fragmenta", (lost fragments of Titus Maccius Plautus), 1885. * ''Die jüngeren attischen Vasen und ihr Verhältnis zur grossen Kunst'', 1885 – The newer Attican vases and their relationship to major art. * ''Eine attische Lekythos des Berliner Museums'', 1895 – An Attican Lekythos of the Berlin Museum. * ''Altertümer von Hierapolis'' (with Carl Humann; Conrad Cichorius; Walther Judeich), 1898 – Antiquities of

Hierapolis Hierapolis (; , lit. "Holy City") was a Hellenistic Greek city built on the site of a Phrygian cult center of the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele, in Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia, Turkey. It was famous for its hot springs, its high qualit ...

. * ''Kunstgeschichte in Bildern ; systematische Darstellung der Entwickelung der bildenden Kunst vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts'', (with Georg Dehio) 5 volumes, 1898–1902. – Art history in pictures; systematic exposition on the development of visual art from classical antiquity to the end of the 18th century. * ''Die Skulpturen mit Ausnahme der Altarreliefs'', 1908 – Sculpture, with the exception of altar reliefs. * ''Der tod des Archimedes'', 1924 – The death of

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Most widely held works by Franz Winter

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winter, Franz 1861 births 1930 deaths Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck Academic staff of the University of Graz Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the University of Bonn Archaeologists from Lower Saxony German art historians People from Braunschweig Scientists from the Duchy of Brunswick German male non-fiction writers German classical archaeologists Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences