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KARL See also:AUGUST See also:BOTTIGER (176o-1835) , See also:German archaeologist, was See also:born at See also:Reichenbach on the 8th of See also:June 176o . He was educated at the school of See also:Pforta, and the university of See also:Leipzig . After holding See also:minor educational posts, he obtained in 1791, through the See also:influence of See also:Herder, the See also:appointment of See also:rector of the gymnasium at See also:Weimar, where he entered into a circle of See also:literary men, including See also:Wieland, See also:Schiller, and See also:Goethe . He published in 1803 a learned See also:work, Sabina, See also:oder Morgenszenen See also:im Putzzimmer einer reichen Romerin, a description of a wealthy See also:Roman See also:lady's toilette, and a work on See also:ancient See also:art, Griechische Vasengemalde . At the same See also:time he assisted in editing the See also:Journal See also:des Luxus and der Moden, the Deutsche Merkur, and the See also:London and See also:Paris . In 1804 he was called to See also:Dresden as See also:superintendent of the studies of the See also:court pages, and received the See also:rank of privy councillor . In 1814 he was made director of studies at the court See also:academy, and inspector of the Museum of Antiquities . He died at Dresden on the 17th of See also:November 1835 . His See also:chief See also:works are :Ideen zur Archdologie der Malerei, (1811) (no more published); Kunstmythologie (1811); Vorlesungen and Aufsatze zur Alterthumskunde (1817); Amalthe¢ (1821–1825); Ideen zur Kunstmythologie (1826–1836) . The Opuscula et Carmina See also:Latina were published separately in 1837; with a collection of his smaller pieces, Kleine Schriften (1837–1838), including a See also:complete See also:list of his works (56 pages) . His See also:biography was written by his son Karl Wilhelm See also:Bottiger (1790–1862), for some time See also:professor of See also:history at See also:Erlangen, and author of several valuable histories (History of See also:Germany, History of See also:Saxony, History of See also:Bavaria, Universal History of See also:Biographies) . |
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