Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . 1856 he suc-ceeded Hermann as professor of classicalphilology at Gottingen, but returned sometwelve years later to Berlin to occupy thechair of classical archaeology and to act asdirector of the cabinet of antiquities in the Royal Museum Curtius also much advanced the study of classical archaeology aspresiding officer of the Archaeological Society, as editor of the Archie-ological Journal, as perpetual secretary of the Royal Academy, andas the founder of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. Heundertook a number of scientifi
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . 1856 he suc-ceeded Hermann as professor of classicalphilology at Gottingen, but returned sometwelve years later to Berlin to occupy thechair of classical archaeology and to act asdirector of the cabinet of antiquities in the Royal Museum Curtius also much advanced the study of classical archaeology aspresiding officer of the Archaeological Society, as editor of the Archie-ological Journal, as perpetual secretary of the Royal Academy, andas the founder of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. Heundertook a number of scientific missions in the service of the Prus-sian government, and in 1874 concluded with the Greek governmenta convention which secured to the German Empire for a term ofyears the exclusive right to make excavations in the Greek following year the first excavation was begun at Olympia inElis, the site of the ancient Olympic games, under the direction ofCurtius, who with others published the results in a voluminous andmost interesting —266. Ernst Curtius 4242 ERNST CURTIUS Curtiuss chief work is his * History of Greece,* which appeared in1867. It was originally published in three volumes as one of a seriesof manuals for classical students issued by a Berlin house, and wasconsequently intended for popular use; a circumstance that necessi-tated the omission of the copious notes in which the text of aGerman scientific work is commonly lost. It showed a remarkablefamiliarity with the climate, resources, and physical characteristics ofGreece; and interpreted ancient life with much eloquence from theclassical literature and from the monuments of ancient art. But themonarchical leaning of the author prevented him from entering fullyinto and appreciating the public life of the democratic communitieswhich he described; and his enthusiastic temperament led him some-times to exaggerate and to be too eager a partisan, to acceptunproven hypotheses too readily and press them
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