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Wiegand, Theodor

    Full Name: Wiegand, Theodor

    Gender: male

    Date Born: 1864

    Date Died: 1936

    Place Born: Bendorf am Rhein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Place Died: Berlin, Germany

    Home Country/ies: Germany

    Subject Area(s): Anatolian (culture or style), Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, archaeology, Classical, Early Western World, Greek sculpture styles, Near Eastern (Early Western World), Pergamene (culture or style), and sculpture (visual works)


    Overview

    Specialist in ancient Greek art and sculpture, and active archaeologist in Asia Minor, particularly at the Pergamon site. Wiegand excavated sites in Asia Minor with Hubert Knackfuss. Director of the antiquity section of the Prussian Museum in Berlin, 1911-1931. His students include Gerda Bruns.



    Sources

    Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 154-155.




    Citation

    "Wiegand, Theodor." Dictionary of Art Historians (website). https://arthistorians.info/wiegandt/.


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