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Welcker, Friedrich Gottlieb Date born: 1784 Place born: Grünberg, Hesse, Germany Date died: 1868 Place died: Bonn, Germany Professor of Philology and Archaeology, and director of the Academic Museum of Art at Bonn University, 1819-1854. Friend and protegé of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Welcker was an exponent of Totalitätsideal the notion that one needs to know everything about a discipline in order to conclude anything about it. His students included Otto Benndorf (q.v.), Johannes Overbeck (q.v.), Ernst Curtius (q.v.) (briefly) and Heinrich Brunn (q.v.). Home Country: Germany Sources: Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von
Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am
Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 18-19;
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Welcker: Werk und Wirkung. Bibliography: revised: Müller, Karl Otfried. Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst. Breslau: J. Max, 1848, English: Ancient Art and its Remains: or, a Manual of the Archaeology of Art. John Leitch, trans. London : H. Bohn, 1852; Kleine Schriften. 5 vols. Bonn: E. Weber, 1844-1867 and vol. 5, Elberfeld: R. L. Friedrichs; Zum verzeichniss der alten künstler. Frankfurt a.M.: s.n., 1848; Das Akademische kunstmuseum zu Bonn. Bonn: E. Weber, 1827; Die Borstellungen der Giebelfelder und Metopen an dem Tempel zu Delphi. s.l.:s.n, 18?? (Harvard University copy).
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