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August Kalkmann (24 March 1853, in Hamburg – 19 February 1905, in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian.

He studied under Franz Bücheler, Hermann Usener and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz at the University of Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1881 with a dissertation on Euripides' Hippolytus. In 1885 he qualified as a lecturer, and in 1900 became an associate professor at the University of Berlin.^[1]^[2]

Principal works edit

De Hippolytis Euripideis quaestiones novae, 1881 (dissertation).
Über Darstellungen der Hippolytos-Sage, 1883 – Representations on the legend of Hippolytus.
Pausanias der Perieget. Untersuchungen über seine Schriftstellerei und seine Quellen, 1886 – Pausanias the Periegete.
Die Proportionen des Gesichts in der griechischen Kunst, 1893 – On proportions of the face in Greek art.
Die Quellen der Kunstgeschichte der Plinius, 1898 – The source of art history of Pliny.^[3]
August Kalkmanns nachgelassenes Werk, 1909 – August Kalkmann's posthumous work (edited by Hermann Voss).^[4]

^ Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, Volume 40 necrology
^ Chronik der Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu ..., Volumes 17-21 by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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