Heyne, Christian Gottlob

Date born:  1729

Place Born:  Chemnitz, Germany

Date died:  1812

Place died:  Göttingen, Germany

Greek and Roman sculpture scholar, early professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at University of Göttingen. Heyne studied at the university in Leipzig where he heard courses by Johann Friedrich Christ. Heyne was a prominent critic of Johan Joachim Winckelmann.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 8-9

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Subject's name: Christian Gottlob Heyne