August Kalkmann Explained

August Kalkmann (24 March 1853, in Hamburg – 19 February 1905, in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian.

He studied under Franz Bücheler, Hermann Usener and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz at the University of Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1881 with a dissertation on Euripides' Hippolytus. In 1885 he qualified as a lecturer, and in 1900 became an associate professor at the University of Berlin.^[1] ^[2]

Principal works

De Hippolytis Euripideis quaestiones novae, 1881 (dissertation).
Über Darstellungen der Hippolytos-Sage, 1883 - Representations on the legend of Hippolytus.
Pausanias der Perieget. Untersuchungen über seine Schriftstellerei und seine Quellen, 1886 - Pausanias the Periegete.
Die Proportionen des Gesichts in der griechischen Kunst, 1893 - On proportions of the face in Greek art.
Die Quellen der Kunstgeschichte der Plinius, 1898 - The source of art history of Pliny.^[3]
August Kalkmanns nachgelassenes Werk, 1909 - August Kalkmann's posthumous work (edited by Hermann Voss).^[4]