Paul Heinrich August Wolters (1 September 1858 in

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– 21 October 1936 in

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) was a German classical archaeologist who specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art. He was the son of

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Albrecht Wolters (1822–1878). He studied

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

and archaeology at the Universities of Halle,

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and

, obtaining his PhD in 1882. By way of a scholarship from the

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(DAI), he took a study trip to Italy, Greece and

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(1885–1887). From 1900 to 1908, he was a professor at the

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, and in 1908, succeeded

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as professor of classical archaeology at the

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. Here, he was also director of the Glyptothek Museum. Among his better known students was archaeologist

Ernst Buschor Ernst Buschor ( Hürben, 2 June 1886 – Munich, 11 December 1961) was a German archaeologist and translator. Biography From 1905 he studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler, earning his ...

. In 1888/89, he performed excavatory work at the Kabeirion of Thebes, a rural sanctuary containing temples and theaters. In 1925, with

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Kolonna.

Published works

In 1885 he published a new edition of Karl Friederichs' ''Die Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke in historischer Folge erklärt : Bausteine zur Geschichte der griechisch-römischen plastik'' (The plaster casts of ancient sculptures explained in historical sequence, etc.) Other noted works by Wolters include: * ''Mykenische gräber in Kephallenia'',

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, 1894 – Mycenaean tombs in

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. * ''Der westgiebel des olympischen Zeustempels'', Munich, Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1908 – The west gable of the

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. * ''Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig’s I. zu München''. Munich, 1910. * ''Eine Darstellung des athenischen Staatsfriedhofs'', 1913 – A representation of the Athenian state cemetery. * ''Archäologische Bemerkungen'', 1915 – Archaeological comments. * ''Der Geflügelte Seher'', 1928 – The winged seer. * ''Das Kabirenheiligtum bei Theben'', 1940 (with Gerda Bruns) – the Kabeirion sanctuary near Thebes.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Paul Wolters

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolters, Paul 1858 births 1936 deaths Archaeologists from the Kingdom of Prussia Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich People from Bonn Academic staff of the University of Würzburg