Georg Loeschcke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German classical archaeologist
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Place of Birth: Penig, Saxony, Germany
About Georg Loeschcke
- Georg Loeschcke (28 June 1852 – 26 November 1915) was a German archaeologist born in Penig, Saxony. He studied archaeology under Johannes Overbeck at Leipzig, afterwards continuing his education at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz.
- In 1877–78 he participated in a study trip to Greece and Italy under the aegis of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
- As a result of this research, he published with Adolf Furtwängler, Mykenische Thongefäße, a landmark work that provided important historical timelines for Mycenaean pottery.
- In their investigations of Mycenaean pottery, Loeschcke and Furtwängler gave distinctions between it and Geometric pottery.In 1879 Loeschcke became a professor of philology and archaeology at the University of Dorpat, where he co-authored another important work on Mycenaean pottery with Furtwangler, titled Mykenische Vasen (1886).
- In 1887 he was appointed first secretary to the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Athens, and two years later succeeded Kekulé as professor at the University of Bonn.
- At Bonn, he was dean to the faculty (1895/96), university rector (1909/10) and director of the university museum (1889–1912).
- In 1912 he again succeeded Kekulé, in this instance as professor of classical archaeology at the University of Berlin.
- In 1913 Loeschcke was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
- Loeschcke performed archaeological investigations of "Limes Germanicus", which were a series of frontier forts that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Rhaetia and Germania Superior.
- He also performed investigations at the Kaiserthermen (Imperial Baths in Trier) and at the Roman camp in Haltern.
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