Full Name: Heyne, Christian Gottlob
Other Names:
- Christian Gottlob Heyne
Gender: male
Date Born: 1729
Date Died: 1812
Place Born: Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Place Died: Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), Classical, Greek sculpture styles, Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), Roman sculpture styles, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Greek and Roman sculpture scholar, early professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at University of Göttingen. Heyne studied at the university in Leipzig where he heard courses by Johann Friedrich Christ. Heyne was a prominent critic of Johann Joachim Winckelmann.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 8-9