Otto Benndorf

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1838 – 1907

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Who was Otto Benndorf?

Otto Benndorf was a German-Austrian archaeologist who was a native of Greiz. He was the father of physicist Hans Benndorf.

He studied under Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Otto Jahn and Friedrich Ritschl at the University of Bonn. Later, he worked as an instructor at Schulpforta, where one of his students was Friedrich Nietzsche. From 1864 to 1868 he was a member of a scientific expedition that toured Italy, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1868 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Göttingen under the guidance of Friedrich Wieseler.

In 1869 he became an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Zurich, relocating to University of Munich in 1871 and to Prague the following year. With Alexander Conze, he took part in the second Austrian archaeological expedition to Samothrace. Two years later, he succeeded Conze as chair of archaeology at the University of Vienna. Among his students at Vienna were Michael Rostovtzeff, Julius von Schlosser and Franz Studniczka.

In 1881–82, he excavated the so-called "Heroon of Gjölbaschi-Trysa" at Lycia, shipping more than 100 boxes of material to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. With Carl Humann, he organized an excavation of Ephesus. In 1898 he founded the Österreichische Archäologische Institut, serving as its director until his death in 1907.

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Born
Sep 13, 1838
Greiz
Also known as
  • Friedrich August Otto Benndorf
  • Otto Benndorfius
Children
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Jan 2, 1907
Vienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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