August Emil Braun

August or Auguste Emil Braun (19 April 1809, Gotha, Germany – 12 September 1856, Rome, Italy) was a German archaeologist.

Biography

Braun initially studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Göttingen, then continued his education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technical Educational Institute Dresden. In 1833, he accepted Eduard Gerhard's invitation to Berlin, where he made the decision to devote his career to art history.[1]

In the autumn of 1833, he accompanied Gerhard to Rome, where in a short amount of time, he became a librarian, and subsequently secretary to the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (later the German Archaeological Institute).[2] In Rome, he used his contacts in the art market to acquire antiquities and paintings for collectors, and he established a electroplating workshop to create reproductions of ancient and modern works of art.[2][3]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ ADB:Braun, Emil @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. ^ a b Bubenheimer-Erhart, Friederike (2013). "Braun, Emil". Brill's New Pauly, Supplement I, Volume 6: History of Classical Scholarship. Stuttgart: Brill. doi:10.1163/2214-8647_bnps6_COM_00085.
  3. ^ Google Books The art journal London, Volume 2
  4. ^ * List of publications partly copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

References

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