Full Name: Zschietzschmann, Willy
Gender: male
Date Born: 1900
Date Died: 1976
Place Born: Bautzen, Sachsen, Germany
Place Died: Arnsburg, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, Classical, and Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
Overview
Specialist in classical Greek and Roman art, particularly known for his textbooks. Succeeded Margarete Bieber as ausserplanmäßige Professor and Director of the Archaeological Institute at Giessen University, 1937-1939. Served in the military during World War II and was severely wounded in 1944, leading to leg amputation. Returned to Giessen after the war but because the university was much smaller and in danger of being eliminated, he never returned to a professorship, serving instead as a scientific advisor, and as a director at the Volkshochschule (High School) of Giessen. One of the founders of the Deutsch-Französischen Gesellschaft (German-French society) and Deutsch-Griechischen Gesellschaft (German-Greek society). For the last 18 years of his life he concentrated on the excavation and restoration of the Cistercian Monastery at Arnsburg bei Lich.
Selected Bibliography
Die hellenistische und römische Kunst. 1939.Baugeschicte des Philippeions von Olympia. 1944.Wettkampf- und übungsstätten in Griechenland. 1960/61.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 276-277.