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GERHARD, See also:
FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
FRIEDRICH WILHELM EDUARD (1795-1867) , See also:

German archaeologist, . was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Posen on the 29th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1795, and was educated at See also:

BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau and See also:

Berlin. The reputation he acquired by his Lectiones Apollonianae (1816) led soon afterwards to his being appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the gymnasium of Posen. On resigning that See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 1819, on See also:

account of weakness of the eyes, he went in 1822 to See also:

Rome, where he remained for fifteen years. He contributed to Platner's Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, then under the direction of See also:

Bunsen, and was one of the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal originators and during his See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in See also:

Italy director of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, founded at Rome in 1828. Returning to See also:

Germany in 1837 he was appointed archaeologist at the Royal Museum of Berlin, and in 1844 was chosen a member of the See also:

Academy of Sciences, and a professor in the university. He died at Berlin on the 12th of May 1867. Besides a large number of archaeological papers in See also:

PERIODICALS

periodicals, in the Annali of the See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of Rome, and in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy, and several illustrated catalogues of See also:

Greek, See also:

ROMAN

Roman and other antiquities in the Berlin, See also:

Naples and Vatican Museums, Gerhard was the author of the following See also:

WORKS

works: Antike Bildwerke (See also:

STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1827-1844) ; Auserlesene griech. Vasenbilder (1839-1858) ; Etruskische Spiegel 1839-1865) ; Hyperboreisch-rom. Studien (vol. i., 1833; vol. ii., 1852) ; Prodromus mytholog. Kunsterklarung (Stutt- ert and See also:

TUBINGEN

Tubingen, 1828) ; and Griech. Mythologie (1854-1855). His sammelte akademische Abhandlungen and kleine Schriften were published posthumously in 2 vols., Berlin, 1867.

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