Ernst Buschor

Ernst Buschor (Hürben, 2 June 1886 – Munich, 11 December 1961) was a German archaeologist and translator.

Biography

From 1905 he studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of classical archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler, earning his doctorate in 1912. After serving as a soldier in the Balkans during World War I, he became an associate professor of classical archaeology at the University of Erlangen. In 1920 he became a full professor at the University of Freiburg. From 1921 to 1929, he was director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. From 1929 to 1959, he served as a professor of classical archaeology at Munich.^[1]

From 1922 to 1924, he conducted archaeological excavations in Athens, Olympia and in Amyklai (Sparta), and for many years served as director of excavations on the island of Samos (1925–1939; 1951–1961). In 1921 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.^[1]

Selected works

Buschor is credited for providing translations of all 31 extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.^[1] The following are a few of his significant writings:

• Griechische Vasenmalerei (= Klassische Illustratoren 5, ZDB-ID 514662-8). Piper, München 1913. Translated into English as: "Greek vase-painting"; New York, E.P. Dutton [1922].
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Textilkunst. Die Anfänge und der orientalische Import. Kastner & Callwey, München 1912 (München, Universität, phil. Dissertation, 26. Januar 1912) – Contributions to the history of Greek textile art.
• Euripides: Orestes. Iphigenie in Aulis. Die Maenaden. 3 Tragoedien. Beck, München 1960 – Euripides: Orestes. Iphigénie in Aulis. The Maenads; 3 tragedies.
• Winke für Akropolispilger. Beck, München 1960 – Hints for Acropolis pilgrims.
• Gesamtausgabe der griechischen Tragödien. 10 Bände. Artemis Verlag, Zürich u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-7608-3657-7 – Edition of the Greek tragedies. Translated by Ernst Buschor. 10 volumes.
• Vom Sinn der griechischen Standbilder, Translated into English as: "On the meaning of Greek statues"; Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.^[2]

Bibliography

• Karl Schefold: Ernst Buschor 1886–1961. In: Archäologenbildnisse. Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassischen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6, S. 234–235.

References and external links

• Literature by and about Ernst Buschor in the German National Library catalogue