Karl Purgold Explained

Karl Purgold (28 December 1850, in Gotha – 1939, in Gotha) was a German classical archaeologist and museum director.

In 1878 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn. Following graduation, he travelled the Mediterranean region by way of a grant from the German Archaeological Institute (1878–80).^[1] From 1890 until his retirement in 1934 he was director of the Herzogliches Museum Gotha (Ducal Museum in Gotha).^[2]

He took part in the excavations at Olympia, Greece, being tasked with providing analysis of ancient inscriptions.^[3] With Wilhelm Dittenberger, he edited Die inschriften von Olympia, based on the inscriptions found at Olympia.

Selected works

• Archäologische Bemerkungen zu Claudian und Sidonius, 1878  - Archaeological observations on Claudian and Sidonius.
• Die inschriften von Olympia, edited by W. Dittenberger and K. Purgold; (The inscriptions of Olympia), volume V. of Olympia : Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung (Olympia : The results of the excavation organized by the German Reich; 1890–97).
• Das Museum des Herzoglichen Hauses in Gotha, 1910.
• Das Herzogliche Museum, 1937 (with Eberhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg)  - The Ducal Museum in Gotha.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. "Sentences based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
2. http://www.gotha-info.de/node/287 Magazin Gotha
3. https://archive.org/stream/centuryofarchaeo00michuoft/centuryofarchaeo00michuoft_djvu.txt Archiv.org
4. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no97043674/ WorldCat Identities
5. http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Karl_Purgold de.Wikisource