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GERHARD, FRIEDRICH WILHELM EDUARD (1795-1867) , German archaeologist, . was born at Posen on the 29th of November 1795, and was educated at Breslau and Berlin. Thereputation he acquired by his Lectiones Apollonianae (1816) led soon afterwards to his being appointed professor at the gymnasium of Posen. On resigning that office in 1819, on account of weakness of the eyes, he went in 1822 to Rome, where he remained for fifteen years. He contributed to Platner's Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, then under the direction of Bunsen
principal
Academy of Sciences, and a professor in the university. He died at Berlin on the 12th of May 1867.Besides a large number of archaeological papers in periodicals
Academy , and several illustrated catalogues of Greek, Roman and other antiquities in the Berlin, Naples and Vatican Museums, Gerhard was the author of the following works: Antike Bildwerke (Stuttgart
ert and Tubingen
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