Franz Studniczka

Franz Studniczka (14 August 1860 – 4 December 1929) was a German professor of classical archaeology born in Jasło, Galicia.

He studied classical archaeology in Vienna as a pupil of Otto Benndorf (1838-1907). In 1887 he received his habilitation in Vienna, and in 1889 became a professor at the University of Freiburg. In 1896 he was appointed professor of classical archaeology at the University of Leipzig, succeeding Johannes Overbeck, who died the previous November. At Leipzig he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Studniczka was a leading authority on ancient Greek and Roman art and antiquities. At the Museum of Antiquities at Leipzig he was responsible for expansion of its collection of casts of antique sculptures. This collection subsequently became one of the largest and most impressive collection of casts in Germany. He is also credited for masterful restoration of the Artemis-Iphigenie-Gruppe.

Selected publications

• Beiträge zur Geschichte der altgriechischen Tracht, 1886
• Kyrene, eine altgriechische Göttin (Cyrene, an ancient Greek goddess), 1890
• Kalamis. Ein Beitrag zur griechischen Kunstgeschichte (Kalamis, A contribution to Greek art), 1907
• Das Bildnis des Aristoteles (Portrait of Aristotle), 1908
• Das Symposion Ptolemaios II: Nach der Beschreibung des Kallixeinos (The Symposium Ptolemaios II: After the description of Kallixenos), 1914
• Das Bildnis Menanders (The Menander Effigies) in Neue Jarbucher fur das Klassische Altertum 21 (1918).
• Die Ostgiebelgruppe vom Zeustempel in Olympia (Eastern Gable Group of the Zeus Temple in Olympia), 1923
• "The Sophocles Statues"; Journal of Hellenic Studies 43 (1923): 57-67.

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.