Wiegand, Theodor

Date born: 1864

Place born:  Bendorf am Rhein, Germany

Date died:  1936

Place died:  Berlin, Germany

Specialist in ancient Greek art and sculpture, and active archaeologist in Asia Minor, particularly at the Pergamon site.  Wiegand excavated sites in Asia Minor with Hubert Knackfuß. Director of the antiquity section of the Prussian Museum in Berlin, 1911-1931.   His students include Gerda Bruns.

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:  Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 154-155.

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