Alfred von Domaszewski

Who was Alfred von Domaszewski?

Alfred von Domaszewski was an Austrian historian born in Timişoara in the Habsburg Monarchy.

He received his education in Vienna, and following graduation remained in Vienna as a secondary school teacher. In 1884 he began work as an assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 1887 he became an associate professor of ancient history at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1890 he attained full professorship. One of his better known students was historian Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz.

In 1882 he accompanied German archaeologist Carl Humann to Smyrna on behalf of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, with support from the Vienna Ministry of Education. He also assisted Humann on a reconstruction project involving the Monumentum Ancyranum. With philologist Rudolf Ernst Brünnow, he provided a comprehensive analysis and map of the ancient city of Petra.