Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn (June 16, 1813–September 9, 1869), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.

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He was born at Kiel. After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy; in 1839 he became Privatdozent at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at Greifswald (ordinary professor 1845).

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In 1847 he accepted the chair of archaeology at Leipzig, but was deprived in it in 1851 for having taken part in the political movements of 1848-1849. In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academic art museum at Bonn, and in 1865 he was called to succeed Eduard Gerhard at Berlin. He died at G?ttingen.

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