Full Name: Durm, Josef
Gender: male
Date Born: 1837
Date Died: 1919
Place Born: Karlsruhe, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): archaeology, architecture (object genre), and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architect and archaeologist primarily employed as director of offical construction in Baden. Engaged in long, scholarly argument with W. Dörpfeld over the construction of the temple to Hera at Olympia. Instrumental in restoring the Parthenon to architectural soundness after an earthquake in 1894.
Selected Bibliography
Die Baukunst der Griechen, 1881
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 65-66.