Wilhelm Klein
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Wilhelm Klein (November 28, 1850, Karánsebes (today Caransebeş), Krassó-Szörény megye, Hungary - 1924), was an Hungarian-Austrian archeologist.
He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy at Vienna and Prague. The Austrian government subsequently sent him to Italy and Greece, where he engaged in archeological investigations, studying especially antique pottery. Klein is professor of archeology at the German University of Prague, and a member of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung Deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Literatur in Böhmen, as well as of the German Archeological Institute. He has published: "Euphronius"(1886); "Die Griechischen Vasen, mit Meisterinschriften" (2d ed., Vienna, 1887); and "Praxiteles" (1897).
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- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Wilhelm Klein" by Isidore Singer, Alexander Kisch, a publication now in the public domain.
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