Andreas Rumpf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andreas Rumpf

German arcchaeologist

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1890

Place of Birth: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Jun-1966

Profession: university teacher, art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Andreas Rumpf (3 December 1890 – 22 June 1966) was a German classical archaeologist born in Potsdam.
He was a specialist of ancient Greek and Roman art, in particular, vase painting and Greek wall painting.
He was the son of painter Fritz Rumpf (1856–1927).He studied classical archaeology at the University of Leipzig under Franz Studniczka (1860-1929), earning his doctorate with a dissertation on the murals in Veii, titled "Die Wandmalereien in Veji." In 1923 he received his habilitation at Leipzig with a thesis on Chalkidiki vases.
From 1928 to 1960 he was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Cologne.He was editor of the "Griechische und römische Kunst" (1932, part of the Einleitung in der Altertumswissenschaft series).