Alfred Brueckner

Alfred Brueckner (7 September 1861, Magdeburg – 15 January 1936, Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist. He was a specialist in Greek funerary art.

In 1886 he obtained his PhD at the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Adolf Michaelis. From 1888 to 1890, via a travel scholarship from the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (DAI), he visited Greece and Asia Minor. Until 1924 (year of retirement) he taught classes at Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Schöneberg. He was a member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (since 1892) and the Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.^[1]

In 1893, under Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he participated in excavatory work at Troy,^[2] and for a number of years, conducted excavations at Kerameikos in Athens.^[3] He made significant contributions as an editor of Alexander Conze's Die attischen grabreliefs, a project involving Attican funerary reliefs (1893-1922).^[4]

Selected works

• Ornament und Form der attischen Grabstelen Strasbourg 1886 (dissertation) – Ornamentalism and form pertaining to Attican grave stelae.
• Von den griechischen Grabreliefs, gearbeitet auf Grund des akademischen Apparates der Sammlung der Grabreliefs. 1888 – Greek grave reliefs, etc.
• Ein attischer Friedhof (with Erich Pernice), 1883 – An Attican cemetery.
• Anakalypteria, 1904.
• Der Friedhof am Eridanos bei der Hagia Triada zu Athen, 1909 – The cemetery of Eridanus by the Hagia Triada of Athens.^[5][6]
• Kerameikos-Studien, Kerameikos studies, 1910.^[7]

References

1. "Paragraph based on translated text of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia", source listed as: Rudolf WH Pricks: Alfred Brueckner . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang sliding ring (eds.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists German language . Saverne, Mainz, 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp 144-145.
2. OCLC WorldCat Troja 1893, Bericht über die im Jahre 1893 in Troja
3. Greek Travel Pages Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Archaeological Site of Kerameikos
4. The Online Books Page Die attischen grabreliefs
5. OCLC Classify publications
6. de.Wikisource bibliography of Alfred Brueckner
7. Google Books Kerameikos-Studien

External links

• Works by or about Alfred Brueckner at Internet Archive