Körte, Gustav

Date born:  1852

Place Born:  Berlin

Date died:  1917

Place died:  Göttingen

Specialist in Etruscan art and culture.  Professor of Archaeology at Rostock University 1881-1905, Göttingen University, 1907-1917. notes about Körte's opinions on Giotto appear in Richard Offner's annotated catalog of the 1937 Mostra Giottesca.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 102; Ladis, Andrew.  "The Unmaking of a Connoisseur."  in, Offner, Richard.  A Discerning Eye:  Essays on Early Italian Painting.  University Park, PA:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, p,19, note 1.

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