Heinz Kähler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German classical archaeologist
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Place of Birth: Tetenbüll, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Heinz Kähler
- Heinz Kähler (21 January 1905 in Tetenbüll, Germany – 9 January 1974 in Cologne, Germany) was an ancient art historian and archaeologist. Heinz Kähler studied classical archaeology and art history at the university of Freiburg in Breisgau.
- He studied under Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) and completed his dissertation in 1929.
- Upon being granted a travel stipend from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Kähler traveled during 1930–31 in France, Spain, Greece, Rome and Asia Minor.
- He returned to Germany, where he worked at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin (1936–37).
- Afterwards, he was assistant to the Archaeological Seminar of Ernst Buschor at the University of Munich (1937–41) as well as in its museum of casts.
- His major study of the sculpture of the Great Pergamon Altar appeared in 1942.
- His professorial dissertation was completed there in 1943 while serving in the German army during World War II.
- After the war his study of Hadrian's villa at Tivoli appeared in 1950.
- He was appointed professor of classical archaeology at the University of Saarbrücken (1953–1960).
- His work on the Arch of Constantine in Rome (1953) and the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia of Praeneste (1958), both were completed at Saarbrücken.
- He co-founded with Jacques Moreau the Monumenta Artis Romanae series of publications, writing personally the volume on the statue of Augustus from Prima Porta (1959).
- In 1960 he succeeded Andreas Rumpf at the University of Cologne in the Institut für Klassische Archäologie.
- He would teach there until 1973.
- At Cologne he authored his major work, Rom und sein Imperium (1962), which was translated into English in 1963 and became a widely used text for Roman art.
- A second volume in the Monumenta Artis Romanae book series on the Gemma Augustea appeared in 1968.
- Among his many students was the Roman art historian Gerhard Koeppel.
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