Johannes Boehlau (30 September 1861, Halle an der Saale – 24 September 1941, Göttingen) was a German classical archaeologist.

In 1884 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with the dissertation thesis, Quaestiones de re vestiaria Graecorum.[1] This was followed by a study trip to Asia Minor and Greece (1885/86) that was made possible from a travel grant by the German Institute of Archaeology (DAI).[2] From 1902 to 1928 he was director of the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel and was a primary catalyst towards construction of the Hessiches Landesmuseum.[3]

He conducted archaeological field studies at Samos (1894), Larissa (1902) and at Lesbos (1906).[4][5] After his retirement, he returned to Larissa, where he performed excavatory work with Karl Schefold and Lennart Kjellberg.[2][6] In addition to his work in classical archaeology, he also performed excavatory investigations in Germany — in 1894, with Felix von und zu Gilsa, he uncovered a Neolithic tomb (Züschen) near the town of Fritzlar, Hesse.[7]

Selected published works

  • Samos : - die Kasseler Grabung 1894 in der Nekropole der archaischen Stadt von Johannes Boehlau und Edward Habich – Samos, an 1894 excavation in the necropolis of the ancient city.
  • Neolithische denkmäler aus Hessen, (with Felix von und zu Gilsa), 1898 – Neolithic monument found in Hesse.
  • Aus ionischen und italischen nekropolen; ausgrabungen und untersuchungen zur geschichte der nachmykenischen griechi schen kunst, 1898 – On Ionic and Italic necropoleis.
  • Larisa am Hermos, die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 1902-1934 (co-author; 3 volumes) 1940–1942 – Larissa, Turkey: the results of excavations, 1902 to 1934.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Catalog HathiTrust Quaestionum de re vestiaria Graecorum specimen.
  2. 1 2 "Sentence based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
  3. ↑ Dictionary of Art Historians Boehlau, Johannes
  4. ↑ OCLC WorldCat Samos : - die Kasseler Grabung 1894 in der Nekropole der archaischen Stadt,etc.
  5. ↑ Google Books Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Deutschland. Göttingen--Archäologisches ..., Volume 3
  6. ↑ OCLC WorldCat Samos : - die Kasseler Grabung 1894 in der Nekropole der archaischen Stadt
  7. ↑ Universität Münster Projekt Zuschen
  8. ↑ WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Johannes Boehlau
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