- Paul Jacobsthal
Paul Jacobsthal (born 1880,
Berlin ; died27 October 1957 ,Oxford ) was a scholar of Greek vase painting andCeltic art . He wrote his dissertation at theUniversity of Bonn under the supervision ofGeorg Loeschcke . In 1912 he published a catalog of the Greek vases inGöttingen , and received a position as a professor at theUniversity of Marburg .In the 1920s Jacobsthal became interested in the work of
John Beazley on vase painting, and began to adopt Beazley's taxonomical methodologies. His 1927 work, "Ornamente griechischer Vasen", was dedicated to Beazley In 1930 Jacobsthal and Beazley began to collaborate on an inventory of early Greek vases, the "Bilder griechischer Vasen", a project which they concluded in 1939. AfterWorld War II , the two scholars served as co-editors of the "Oxford Classical Monographs".In 1935 Jacobsthal was forced to leave
Nazi Germany on account of his Jewish heritage. He settled inEngland , and in 1937 was appointed as a lecturer atChrist Church, Oxford . There he continued his collaboration with Beazley.Soon after his arrival in England, Jacobsthal began to study the art of the
Celts , and in 1944 published his study of "Early Celtic Art". This book focused on the impact of Greek ornament on Celtic decorative arts, and was one of the earliest English-language works to employ the terminology established byAlois Riegl in his "Stilfragen ". From 1947 through 1950 Jacobsthal served as University Reader in Celtic Archaeology atOxford University .Jacobsthal's final study, "Greek pins and their connexions with Europe and Asia" (1956), returned to the cataloguing of material from Greek antiquity, while remaining engaged with issues of the reception of Greek art abroad.
Jacobsthal's students included the Swiss archaeologist
Karl Schefold and Hans Möbius.Sources
M. Robertson, "Dr. P.F. Jacobsthal," "The Burlington Magazine" 100 (1958), 27.
External links
[http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/jacobsthalp.htm Jacobstahl at the Biographical Dictionary of Art Historians.]
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