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.