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Winckelmann

noun
1.
German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768).  Synonyms: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann.





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... through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright. An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's "Ancient Greece"; the "Life and Letters" of Niebuhr, even more than his Lectures, furnish leading views; and Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius. The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff, and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period must be drawn from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
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Words linked to "Winckelmann" :   archaeologist, Johann Winckelmann, archeologist, art historian


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