Alfred Brueckner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Brueckner

German classical archaeologist

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1861

Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1936

Profession: art historian, archaeologist, high school teacher, classical archaeologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alfred Brueckner (7 September 1861, Magdeburg – 15 January 1936, Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist.
He was a specialist in Greek funerary art. In 1886, he obtained his PhD at the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Adolf Michaelis.
From 1888 to 1890, via a travel scholarship from the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (DAI), he visited Greece and Asia Minor.
Until 1924 (year of retirement) he taught classes at Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Schöneberg.
He was a member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut (since 1892) and the Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.In 1893, under Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he participated in excavatory work at Troy, and for a number of years, conducted excavations at Kerameikos in Athens.
He made significant contributions as an editor of Alexander Conze's Die attischen grabreliefs, a project involving Attican funerary reliefs (1893-1922).