Franz Winter


Franz Winter was a German archaeologist. He specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art, being particularly known for his analyses of individual statues, such as the Apollo Belvedere.
He studied ancient history in Zurich, Munich and Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1885 with a dissertation on the playwright Plautus. By way of a suggestion from Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, he was tasked by the directorate of the German Archaeological Institute with compiling a typological catalog of classical terracotta works.
Beginning in 1890, he worked with Kekulé at the Royal Museums in Berlin, followed by professorships at Innsbruck Graz and Strasbourg. In 1912 he succeeded Georg Loeschcke as chair of archaeology at the University of Bonn.

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