Alfred Brueckner

Alfred Brueckner (7 September 1861, in Magdeburg – 15 January 1936, in Berlin) was a German classical archaeologist. He was a specialist in Greek funerary art.

In 1886, he obtained his PhD at the University of Strasbourg, where he was a student of Adolf Michaelis. From 1888 to 1890, via a travel scholarship from the ''Deutschen Archäologischen Institut'' (DAI), he visited Greece and Asia Minor. Until 1924 (year of retirement) he taught classes at in Schöneberg. He was a member of the ''Deutschen Archäologischen Institut'' (since 1892) and the ''Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin''.

In 1893, under Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he participated in excavatory work at Troy, and for a number of years, conducted excavations at Kerameikos in Athens. He made significant contributions as an editor of Alexander Conze's ''Die attischen grabreliefs'', a project involving Attican funerary reliefs (1893-1922). Provided by Wikipedia