Dictionary of Art Historians

Koch, Herbert

Full Name
Koch, Herbert
Gender
male
Date Born
1880
Date Died
1962
Place Born
Reichenbach, Schlesien, Germany
Place Died
Hamburg, Germany
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
architecture (object genre)
sculpture (visual works)
Overview

Specialist in antique architecture. Dozent at the University of Bonn, 1914-1923. Professor at the University of Jena (1923-1929), University of Leipzig (1929-1931) and Halle (1931-?). His art-historical writing was so valued by Margarete Bieber that she included a passage in her German Readings reader of 1946. His students included Leopold D. Ettlinger.

Selected Bibliography
Römische Kunst, 192?. Der griech.-dorische Tempel, 1951 Von ionischer Baukunst, 1956.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 206-207.