Adolf Schöll


Gustav Adolf Schöll was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist. He was the father of classical philologists Rudolf Schöll and Fritz Schöll.
He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation at Berlin in 1833. In 1839/40, with Karl Otfried Müller, he participated in a study trip to Italy and Greece. In 1842 he was named an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Halle, and during the following year, became director of the Grand Ducal art collections and the Freien Zeichenschule in Weimar. In 1861 he was appointed head of the Grand Ducal Library in Weimar.

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