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Ernst Curtius (September 2, 1814–July 11, 1896), was a German archaeologist and historian. September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ...

He was born at Lübeck, his brother being the noted philologist, Georg Curtius. On completing his university studies he was chosen by CA Brandis to accompany him on a journey to Greece for the prosecution of archaeological researches. Curtius then became Otfried Müller's companion in his exploration of the Peloponnese, and on Müller's death in 1840 returned to Germany. In 1844 he became an extraordinary professor at the University of Berlin, and in the same year was appointed tutor to Prince Frederick William (afterwards the Emperor Frederick III) a post which he held till 1850. Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 - August 12, 1885), German philologist, was born, at Lübeck. ... Christian August Brandis (1790 - July 21, 1867), German philologist and historian of philosophy, was born at Hildesheim and educated at Kiel University. ... Karl Otfried Müller (August 28, 1797–August 1, 1840), was a German scholar and Philodorian. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... There is no institution called the University of Berlin, but there are four universities in Berlin, Germany: Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) This is... Detail of Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III by Pinturicchio (1454-1513) Frederick III of Habsburg (Innsbruck, September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 in Linz) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

After holding a professorship at Göttingen and undertaking a further journey to Greece in 1862, Curtius was appointed (in 1863) ordinary professor at Berlin. In 1874 he was sent to Athens by the German government, and concluded an agreement by which the excavations at Olympia were entrusted exclusively to Germany. Curtius died at Berlin. The Georg-August University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, often called the Georgia Augusta) was founded in 1734 by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and opened in 1737. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympía or Ολύμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a city of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ...

His best-known. work is his History of Greece (1857-1867; Eng. trans. by AW Ward, 1868-1873). It presented in an attractive style what were then the latest results of scholarly research, but was criticized as wanting in erudition. It is now superseded. His other writings are chiefly archaeological. The most important are: Adolphus William Ward (December 2, 1837 _ 1924), English historian and man of letters, was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at the university of Cambridge. ...

• Die Akropolis von Athen (1844)
• Naxos (1846)
• Peloponnesos, eine historisch-geographische Beschreibung der Halbinsel (1851)
• Olympia (1852)
• Die lonier vor der Ionischen Wanderung (1855)
• Attische Studien (1862-1865)
• Ephesos (1874)
• Die Ausgrabungen zu Olympia (1877, etc.)
• Olympia und Umgegend (edited by Curtius and F Adler, 1882)
• Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung (with F Adler, 1890-1898)
• Die Stadtgeschichte von Athen (1891)
• Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1894).

His collected speeches and lectures were published under the title of Altertum und Gegenwart (5th ed., 1903 foll.), to which a third volume was added under the title of Unter drei Kaisern (2nd ed., 1895). Naxos is the largest island (428 km² ) in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea, which separates Greece and Turkey. ...

A full list of his writings will be found in L Gurlitt, Erinnerungen an Ernst Curtius (Berlin, 1902); see also article by O Kern in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xlvii. (1903), to which may be added Ernst Curtius. Em Lebensbild in Briefen, by F Curtius (1903); Thomas Hodgkin, Ernest Curtius (905). Thomas Hodgkin (b. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.

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External Links

• An Olympic Excavation, a description of Curtius' excavations at Olympia.