Full Name: Tschira, Arnold
Gender: male
Date Born: 1910
Date Died: 1969
Place Born: Freiburg im Breisgau, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, architecture (object genre), Classical, Medieval (European), Roman (ancient Italian culture or period), and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Specialist in classical Greek, Roman and medieval art and architecture. Originally trained as an architect and architectural historian at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, but he moved towards classical architecture after receiving a fellowship from the deutsches archäologisches Institut (German Archaeological Institute, or DAI) in 1938. Ordentliche (full) Professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (1950-). Instrumental in renovating the important medieval cathedral in Schwarzach.
Selected Bibliography
“Das Mausoleum der Kaiserin Helena und die Basilika der Heiligen Marcellinius und Peters an der Via Labicana vor Rom.” JdI 72 (1957): 44 ff.Die ehemalige Benediktinerabtei Schwarzach. 1977. (2nd ed.)
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 309-310.