Walter Andrae
Illustration — Walter Andrae. Walter Andrae (February 18, 1875 – July 28, 1956) was a German archaeologist and architect born near Leipzig.
Also recorded as Ernst Walter Andrae
Walter Andrae
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- Full name
- Walter Ernst Andrae.
- Born
- 1875 · Anger-Crottendorf.
- Died
- 1956 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- anthropologist · art historian · archaeologist · architectural historian · university teacher · assyriologist · architect · museologist
- Education
- TU Dresden · Gymnasium St. Augustin
- Teachers
- Robert Koldewey
- Honours
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany · Silver Leibniz medal
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Walter Andrae. Walter Andrae (February 18, 1875 – July 28, 1956) was a German archaeologist and architect born near Leipzig.
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Archaeologist
Archaeologist
Walter Andrae studied at TU Dresden and Gymnasium St. Augustin. Training under Robert Koldewey is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Babylon and Assur. Employment is recorded with Technische Universität Berlin. Distinctions recorded are Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Silver Leibniz medal.
Andrae initially studied architecture at the Dresden University of Technology, where he befriended a younger student, Julius Jordan, with a life-changing effect on him. In 1898, Andrae participated in an archaeological dig at Babylon under the leadership of Robert Koldewey (1855–1925). He played an influential role in the smuggling of the Ishtar Gate out of the country. From 1903 to 1914, he directed the excavation of the ancient Assyrian capital of Assur. During this time period, he also performed archaeological excavations at Hatra and Shuruppak. Another significant archaeological site that he was involved in was the Hittite city of Sam'al.
Museum curator and director
Museum curator and director
In 1921 Andrae became curator of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, where from 1928 to 1951 he served as its director. Starting in 1923, he taught classes in architectural history at Technische Universität Berlin.
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Walter Andrae is recorded as having received Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Silver Leibniz medal. Die kunst des alten Orients / von Heinrich Schäfer und Walter Andrae. Recorded at birth as Walter Ernst Andrae.
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1875
Walter Andrae was born in 1875 at Anger-Crottendorf.
1925
Die kunst des alten Orients / von Heinrich Schäfer und Walter Andrae., dated 1925, held by Wellcome Collection.
1956
Walter Andrae died in 1956 at Berlin.
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Anger-Crottendorf.
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Berlin.
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Published works
Published works
Among his better known writings were Der wiedererstandene Assur, and the autobiographical Lebenserinnerungen eines Ausgräbers (Memoirs of an excavator). Other publications by Andrae include: • Der Anu-Adad-Tempel in Assur 1909 • Die Festungswerke von Assur 1913 • Die Stelenreihen in Assur 1913 • Die archaischen Ischtar-Tempel in Assur 1922 • Farbige Keramik aus Assur und ihre Vorstufen in altassyrischen Wandmalereien 1923 • Die Kunst des Alten Orients 1925 • Kultrelief an dem Brunnen des Assurtempels zu Assur 1931 • Die Partherstadt Assur (with Heinz Lenzen) 1933 • Die ionische Säule. Bauform oder Symbol? 1933 • Alte Feststraßen im Nahen Osten 1941
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Walter Andrae received Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Silver Leibniz medal.
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Literature
Andrae, Walter (1875–1956), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, 2021
Andrae, Walter, Der Neue Pauly Supplemente I Online - Band 6: Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften: Biographisches Lexikon
Andrae, Walter, Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6: History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary
Von Walter Andrae
Walter Andrae, "Memorias de un arqueólogo
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- 1.Paul Meißner (Hrsg.): Alt-Herren-Verzeichnis der Deutschen Sängerschaft. Leipzig 1934, S. 65.
- 2.Wilhelm Litten: Persische Flitterwochen. Georg Stilke, Berlin 1925, S. 203
- 3.Wiedererstehendes Babylon. Eine antike Weltstadt im Blick der Forschung. Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1991, S. 14–16.
- 4.Bundesarchiv R 4901/13258 Hochschullehrerkartei
- 5.Andrae, Ernst Walter. Catalogus Professorum TU Berlin.
- 6.Wiedererstehendes Babylon. Eine antike Weltstadt im Blick der Forschung. Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1991; S. 8
- 7.Nachlass, im Besitz des Vorderasiatischen Museums Berlin. Beispiele in: Wiedererstehendes Babylon. Eine antike Weltstadt im Blick der Forschung. Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1991, S. 20–38.
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