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Friedrichs, Karl

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    Full Name: Friedrichs, Karl

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1831

    Date Died: 1871

    Place Born: Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Place Died: Berlin, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): antiquarianism, Antique, the, and antiquities (object genre)


    Overview

    Succeeded Eduard Gerhard as Director of Berlin Antiquarium 1868-1871, a.o. Professor at Berlin University 1859-1871. His students at Erlangen included the early study years of Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz and William Henry Goodyear in Berlin.


    Selected Bibliography

    Griechen und Römer. 1866. Volume I of Geschichte der Bildenden Künste (Karl Schnasse, see entry for full record). 2nd. ed. 8 vols. Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert, 1866-79. Catalogs of Berlin Museum holdings in antiquities: Bausteine zur Gescheichte der griechisch-römischen Plastik oder Berlins antike Bildwerke. Die Gipsabgüsse im Neuen Museum, in historischer Folge erklärt, 1868; and Geräte und Bronzen im Alten Museum, 1871.


    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 57-58.




    Citation

    "Friedrichs, Karl." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/friedrichsk/.


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