Full Name: Kraus, Theodor
Gender: male
Date Born: 1919
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): archaeology
Overview
Director of the DAI or German archaeological Institute in Rome 1978-1984; with Bernard Andreae, he authored the volume on ancient Rome for the second edition of the Propyläen Kunstgeschichte. He wrote his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1960. Under his directorship, the Systematic Catalog, evolved from the first subject catalog of the library by August Mau between 1900 and 1902, was published. Mau’s catalog was updated in 1925 by Eugen von Mercklin and Friedrich Matz (1890-1974) and printed in an edition published in Rome and Berlin, 1914-1932.
Selected Bibliography
[Habilitation:] Hekate; Studien zu Wesen und Bild der Göttin in Kleinasien und Griechenland. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1960; Pompeji und Herculaneum: Antlitz u. Schicksal zweier antiker Städte. Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1973, English, Pompeii and Herculaneum: the Living Cities of the Dead. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1975; Die Ranken der Ara Pacis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der augusteischen Ornamentik. Berlin: G. Mann, 1953; and Andreae, Bernard. Das römische Weltreich. Propyläen Kunstgeschichte 2. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1967; edited. Systematischer Katalog [of the] Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Römische Abteilung, Bibliothek. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1969; Die Aphrodite von Knidos. Bremen: W. Dorn, 1957; edited. 150-Jahr-Feier Deutsches Archaologisches Institut Rom. Mainz: von Zabern 1982.