Hermann Winnefeld (4 September 1862,

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– 30 April 1918,

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) was a German classical archaeologist. He studied classics in

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and

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from 1881 to 1884, and subsequently became a research assistant at the ''Großherzogliche Vereinigte Sammlungen'' in

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. In 1887 he received his doctorate from the

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with the thesis "Sortes Sangallenses ineditae". With a scholarship from the

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, he conducted archaeological research in

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and

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from 1887 to 1889.Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10
by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated In 1890 he started work as an assistant at the Berlin Museum, and several years later became an associate professor at the

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(1895). In 1896 he returned to Berlin as an assistant manager of museum sculpture collections, and during the following year, began teaching classes at the

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as a non-faculty lecturer. In 1906 he was appointed deputy director of the sculpture collections. His main works include a monograph on

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's villa near Tivoli (1895) and a description of the

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Selected works

* ''Hypnos; ein archäologischer versuch'', 1886. * ''Beschreibung der Vasensammlung : Großherzogliche Vereinigte Sammlungen zu Karlsruhe'', 1887 – Description of the collection of vases: United Grand Ducal collections in Karlsruhe. * ''Die Villa des Hadrian bei Tivoli'', 1895. * ''Altgriechisches bronzebecken aus Leontini'', 1899. * ''Hellenistische silberreliefs im Antiquarium der Königlichen museen'', 1908 – Hellenistic silver reliefs in the Antiquarium of the Royal Museum. * ''Die Friese des groszen Altars'', 1910. * ''Architektonische Römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit'', 1911 (with Hermann von Rohden) – Roman architectural clay reliefs of the Imperial Period.WorldCat Identities
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winnefeld, Hermann 1862 births 1918 deaths People from Überlingen University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Münster Archaeologists from Baden-Württemberg