Alfred Brueckner Explained

Alfred Brueckner (7 September 1861, in Magdeburg – 15 January 1936, in 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 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]

Notes and 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,, pp 144-145.
2. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/459014565 OCLC WorldCat
3. http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?ID=14721 Greek Travel Pages
4. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha001461505 The Online Books Page
5. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Brueckner%2C+Alfred%2C+1861-1936%22 OCLC Classify
6. http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Alfred_Brueckner de.Wikisource
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=WfKRnQEACAAJ Google Books