Wolfgang Gelbig ( . Wolfgang Helbig ; February 2, 1839 , Dresden - October 6, 1915 , Rome ) is a German antiquarian , archeologist, and art dealer who spent most of his life in Italy.
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Biography and Activity
He was born and studied in Dresden, then at the universities of Gottingen and Bonn , where he studied classical philology and archeology . As a scholar of the German Archaeological Institute, he spent two years in Rome .
He traveled a lot in Italy, France, Greece, was in North Africa and Russia. He married a Russian princess and pianist, Liszt’s student, Nadezhda Dmitrievna Shakhovskaya (1847–1922) [1] , daughter of Princess N. B. Shakhovskaya . The couple lived in Rome, where the spouse served as second secretary of the German Archaeological Institute and was a professor at the university, a commissioner for archaeological excavations in southern Etruria , a member of the Academy dei Linchei . [2]
Editions
Main works [2] [3] :
- Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte (Leipzig, 1864);
- Untersuchungen über die kampanische Wandmalerei (1873);
- Die Italiker in der Po-Ebene (1879);
- "Das homerische Epos aus den Denkmälern erläutert" (Leipzig, 1884–87);
- Die Kampanische Wandmalerei;
- “Altital. Kultur- und Kunstegeschiche ”(1879).
Notes
- ↑ see family lead
- ↑ 1 2 Gelbig, Wolfgang // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Gelbig // Brockhaus and Efron Small Encyclopedic Dictionary : 4 tons. - SPb. , 1907-1909.
Links
- Gelbig, Wolfgang // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Gelbig // Brockhaus and Efron Small Encyclopedic Dictionary : 4 tons. - SPb. , 1907-1909.
- Gelbig, Wolfgang on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences