Adolf Schöll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolf Schöll

German archaeologist and writer

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1805

Place of Birth: Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1882

Profession: librarian, university teacher, art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist, literary historian, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gustav Adolf Schöll (2 September 1805 in Brünn – 26 May 1882 in Jena) was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist.
He was the father of classical philologists Rudolf Schöll (1844–1893) and Fritz Schöll (1850–1919). He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation at Berlin in 1833.
In 1839/40, with Karl Otfried Müller, he participated in a study trip to Italy and Greece.
In 1842 he was named an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Halle, and during the following year, became director of the Grand Ducal art collections and the Freien Zeichenschule in Weimar.
In 1861 he was appointed head of the Grand Ducal Library in Weimar.