Adolf Schöll
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| Born | 2 September 1805 |
| Died | 26 May 1882 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen, University of Tübingen |
Gustav Adolf Schöll (2 September 1805 – 26 May 1882) was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist.
Schöll was born on 2 September 1805 in Brno. He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation at Berlin in 1833. In June 1837 he was appointed professor of rhetoric, classical philology, aesthetics and art history at the Imperial University of Dorpat. In 1839/40, with Karl Otfried Müller, he participated in a study trip to Italy and Greece.
In 1842, he was named an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Halle and, the following year, became Director of the Grand Ducal art collections and the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar. In 1861, he was appointed head of the Grand Ducal Library and retired from his position at the drawing school.[1][2]
Also in 1842, he married Johanna Henle (1816-1894), sister of the pathologist, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle. They had a daughter and four sons; including the classical philologists, Rudolf Schöll and Fritz Schöll.
