Durm, Josef

Date born:  1837

Place Born:  Karlsruhe

Date died:  1919

Place died:  

Architect and archaeologist primarily employed as director of offical construction in Baden.  Engaged in long, scholarly argument with W. Dörpfeld over the construction of the temple to Hera at Olympia.  Instrumental in restoring the Parthenon to architectural soundness after an earthquake in 1894.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 65-66.

Bibliography:  Die Baukunst der Griechen, 1881