Heinrich Brunn

Biography

Brunn studied archaeology and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was influenced by the teachings of Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) and Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876). In 1843, he received his doctorate degree with the work Artificum liberae Graeciae tempora, afterwards moving to Rome, where for several years he was associated with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

In 1853, he received an appointment at Bonn, but within a few years, returned to Rome as second secretary of the DAI, serving under Wilhelm Henzen (1816–1887). In 1865, he was chosen inaugural professor for archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Among his pupils were Gustav Körte, Adolf Furtwängler, Heinrich Wölfflin, Julius Langbehn, Paul Arndt, Walther Amelung, Arthur Milchhöfer, Panagiotis Kavvadias and Heinrich Bulle.

From 1865 up until his death in 1894, he was director of the Glyptothek in Munich, publishing in 1868, a guide to the museum, called Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig's I. zu München. For a number of years, he collected artwork for the Glyptothek, being instrumental in making the museum an important center for the study of classical sculpture. Brunn's impressive collection of casts at the Glyptothek was destroyed during World War II (1944).

He was co-founder of Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Skulptur in historischer Anordung (1888), and was author of Geischichte der griechischen Künstler, a publication that helped establish a chronology of ancient Greek art history.

He was ennobled, becoming Heinrich von Brunn, by the Bavarian Government in 1882. In 1893, he received a medal in occasion of his 50th doctoral anniversary.

References

• http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Brunn,_Heinrich_von @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• Parts of this article are based on translated text from an equivalent article at the Deutsche Wikipedia: Heinrich Brunn.

References

1. [http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/brunnh.htm A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-12-22 (biography of Brunn).)
2. His collection of smaller works, ''Heinrich Brunn's kleine Schriften gesammelt'' (1898–1906), was published in three volumes after his death.[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008893076 HathiTrust Digital Library] Heinrich Brunn's kleine Schriften
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