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Joseph Wilpert, photographed in 1903, publication year of his best-known works.

Joseph Wilpert (22 August 1856 - 13 February 1944) was a German archaeologist, Roman Catholic priest, scholar of iconography and member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Life

He was born into a rural family in Eiglau near Bauerwitz (then in Upper Silesia in Prussia and now in Poland), the second of five children of Anastasius and Marianna. As a twelve-year-old he began studying at the gymnasium in Leobschütz (Głubczyce), ending his studies there in 1877 and the following year joined the University of Innsbruck to study philosophy, switching to theology after a a year's military service starting in 1880. In 1878 he joined the AV Austria Innsbruck in the Cartellverband. He was ordained a priest on 2 July 1883..

On 10 October 1884 he became a chaplain at the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and began training as an archaeologist. He learned under Anton de Waal, rector of the Campo Santo, and chaplain and 'convictor' Johann Peter Kirsch, becoming lifelong friends with both of them. Rome thus became his homeland, only leaving during the First World War (when all Germans were expelled) or on research trips to view sarcophagi in France, Spain, Algeria and Tunisia. He was heavily influenced by Giovanni Battista de Rossi, the founder of Christian archaeology.

He was passionate about drawing and produced more than 600 reproductions of the cemeteries' frescoes based on photographs. In 1891 he left the Campo Santo to live in the home of Monsignore Germano Straniero near the Lateran, then from 1921 in the Teutonic Institute, where he died as the result of a fall. He was buried at the Teutonic Cemetery.

Works

In German

  • Topographische Studien über die christlichen Monumente der Appia und der Ardeatina (1901).
  • Zur Entdeckung der «Crypta Damasi» (1903).
  • Beiträge zur christlichen Archäologie (1908).
  • Die römischen Mosaiken und Malereien der kirchlichen Bauten vom IV. bis XIII. Jahrhundert (1916).
  • Erlebnisse und Ergebnisse im Dienste der christlichen Archäologie (1930).

In Italian

  • Le pitture delle catacombe romane (1903), 2 vv.
  • La scoperta delle basiliche cimiteriali dei SS. Marco, Marcelliano e Damaso (1903).
  • La cripta dei Papi e la cappella di S. Cecilia nel cimitero di S. Callisto (1910).
  • I sarcofagi cristiani antichi (1929).
  • La fede nella Chiesa nascente, secondo i monumenti dell'arte funeraria antica (1938).

External links

  1. (in German) Gesamtverzeichnis des C.V. Die Ehrenmitglieder, Alten Herren und Studierenden des Cartellverbandes (C.V.) der kath. deutschen Studentenverbindungen. 1912, Straßburg i. Els. 1912, p. 194.
  2. (in German) Zu Unstimmigkeiten bezüglich des Datums (26. Juli?) s. Sörries S. 20 Anm. 66.
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