| Code | DS/UK/719 |
| Dates | 15/10/1865-12/09/1927 |
| Person Name | Amelung; Walther Oskar Ernst (15/10/1865-12/09/1927); Prof. Dr. |
| Surname | Amelung |
| Forenames | Walther Oskar Ernst |
| Title | Prof. Dr. |
| Activity | Classical Archaeologist; lived as a private scholar in Rome; restored the plaster casts of the university museum in Berlin (1914-1918); reopened the library of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (after 1918); Director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (1921-1927). |
| History | Studied Archaeology at Tübingen, Leipzig and Munich (PhD 1888); research of ancient scupture in the Mediterranean region (1891-1893); worked with the German Archaeological Insitute in Rome (after 1895). |
| Source | "Walter Amelung." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 40-41.
"Amelung Walther Oskar Ernst" in Dictionary of art historians; URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/amelungw.htm> [accessed on 15/02/2011]. |
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