Josef Szombathy

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Josef Szombathy (1853–1943) was an Austrian archaeologist; he was present when the Venus of Willendorf was discovered in 1908.^[1]

The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-high (4.4 in) statuette of a female figure, discovered at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. It was estimated to have been carved between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE.

As a result of this and other finds, he founded the Department of Prehistory at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna in 1882.^[2] Szombathy collected finds from all over the Austro-Hungarian empire, including Galicia, Bukovina, Bohemia, Moravia, Krain and Wojwodina.

Josef Szombathy died of natural causes in 1943.

Bibliography

"Die Aurignacienschichten in Löss von Willendorf," Korrespondenzblatt der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie, und Urgeschichte, XL (1909), 85-88^[3]

References

↑ Antl-Weiser, Walpurga. "The anthropomorphic figurines from Willendorf". Niederösterreichischen Landesmuseum,. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
↑ http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/History_PA_E.html
↑ http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfbibliography.html#szombathy

External links

History of the Willendorf Project

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Name	Szombathy, Josef
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Short description	Austrian archaeologist
Date of birth	1853
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Date of death	1943
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