Duhn, Friedrich von

Professor of Archaeology at University of Heidelberg, 1880-1920. Duhn was the son of an eminent Lübeck judge. His namesake was his godfather, another famous jurist, Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779-1861). Duhn was encouraged to study classics by his father, who had heard the lectures of Otfried Müller. The younger Duhn studied at Bonn under Franz Bücheler (1837-1908), Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, and Hermann Usener (1834-1905). After his studies, Duhn traveled widely through the principal lands of classical archaeology, Italy, Sicily and Greece. In 1879 he published "über einige Basreliefs," a brief paper which proved to be essential for assembling the Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome. It secured his reputation. After teaching only one semester at Göttingen, Duhn was called to Heidelberg where he was appointed professor of archaeology in 1880. In 1906 his Pompeji: eine hellenistische Stadt appeared. Duhn assumed the publication of Roman sculptural portraiture Friedrich Matz (1843-1874) after Matz's death. In 1920 he retired emeritus from Heidelberg. The first volume of his Italische Gräberkunde appeared in 1924 and volume two only after his death. Heidelberg students he influenced included Gerhart Rodenwaldt and those whose dissertations he supervised included Rudolf Pagenstecher, Karl Schuchhardt, Bernhard Schweitzer, Hermann Winnefeld, Otto Weinreich (1886-1972) and Robert Zahn.