Gustav Körte

Gustav Körte (February 8, 1852 - August 15, 1917) was a German classical archaeologist who was born in Berlin. He was the brother of philologist Alfred Körte (1866-1946) and surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937).

He studied classical philology and archaeology at the University of Göttingen, and in 1871 continued his studies under Heinrich Brunn (1822-1894) in Munich. From 1875 to 1879 he performed research in Italy and Greece, where from 1877 to 1879 he was an assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. In 1881 he became a professor of archaeology at the University of Rostock, and in 1905-07 was in charge of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. In 1907 Körte attained the chair of archaeology at Göttingen, a position he held until his death in 1917.

In 1900, with his brother Alfred Körte, he began the first excavation at Gordion, an ancient Phrygian city in Asia Minor. In 1904 the two brothers published their findings in a treatise called "Gordion: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung im Jahre 1900". He also performed important investigations of the necropoli at Orvieto and Tarquinia. With Adolf Klügmann, he continued edition of "Etruskische Spiegel", a project involving systematic study of Etruscan mirrors that was initiated by Eduard Gerhard (1795-1867) in 1843.

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