Dictionary of Art Historians

Goethert, Friedrich Wilhelm

Full Name
Goethert, Friedrich Wilhelm
Gender
male
Date Born
1907
Date Died
1978
Place Born
Berlin, Germany
Place Died
Berlin, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Antique, the
Classical
Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
Overview

Specialist in early Roman art, particularly art of the Roman Republic. Appointed professor at the University of Berlin in 1946, but left in 1948 for the Free University of Berlin on the West side of the Iron Curtain, where he served as first dean of the Philosophy Faculty and taught until his retirement.

Selected Bibliography
"Toga" RE VI A2 Nr. 2 (1937): 1651 ff. "Studien zur Kopienforschung" RM 54 (1939) 176ff.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 299-300.