Hans Möbius Explained

Hans Möbius (2 February 1895, Frankfurt am Main - 28 November 1977, Bad Homburg) was a German classical archaeologist.

He studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Marburg, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1916 as a student of Paul Jacobsthal.^[1] From 1921 to 1928, he worked as an assistant to Ernst Buschor at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, afterwards serving as a curator at the Hessiches Landesmuseum in Kassel. In 1943 he became a professor at the University of Würzburg,^[2] where he was appointed manager of the Martin von Wagner Museum.^[3] From 1946 onward, he worked on Ernst Pfuhl's corpus of eastern Greek funerary sculpture,^[2] Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs.^[4]

Selected works

Die Ornamente der griechischen Grabstelen klassischer und nachklassischer Zeit, 1929 - Ornaments of the Greek grave stele of classical and post-classical eras.
Alexandria und Rom, 1964 - Alexandria and Rome.
Die Reliefs der Portlandvase und das antike Dreifigurenbild, 1965 - The reliefs of the Portland Vase and the ancient three-character image.
Studia varia. Aufsätze zur Kunst und Kultur der Antike mit Nachträgen, 1967 (edited by Wolfgang Schiering) - Studia varia. Essays on art and culture of antiquity, as amended.^[4]