Heinrich Bulle

Heinrich Bulle (11 December 1867 – 6 April 1945) was a German archaeologist born in Bremen.

He studied classical archaeology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn (1822–1894). From 1898 to 1902, he was a lecturer at the University of Würzburg, followed by an associate professorship at the University of Erlangen. In 1908, he returned to Würzburg as a professor, where he was also director of the "Martin von Wagner Museum". Bulle was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[1]

Due to the massive destruction of Würzburg in March 1945, Bulle lost all of his books and manuscripts. He died shortly afterwards in Bad Kohlgrub.

Heinrich Bulle was a specialist of ancient Greek art and sculpture. His best known written work was an innovative study of ancient art titled Der schöne Mensch im Altertum, a book that was published over three editions. He also conducted research into ancient Greek theatre.

In 1903–1905, with Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), he conducted an important excavation at Orchomenus, Boeotia.

• Der schöne Mensch im Altertum, Eine Geschichte des Körperideals bei Ägyptern, Orientalen, Griechen (The beautiful man in antiquity, History of the ideal body of Egyptians, Orientals and Greeks), 1898.
• Die samische Gruppe des Myron (The Sami group of Myron), Festschrift Paul Arndt, (1925) 62 ff.)
• Der Ostgiebel des Zeustempels zu Olympia (East gables of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia), in: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 54 (1939). 137 ff.
• Untersuchungen an griechischen Theatern, (Studies of Greek theatres), (1928).
• Das Theater zu Sparta, (Theatre at Sparta), (1934).
• Skenographie, (Scenography), (1934).
• Zum Pothos des Skopas, (About the Pothos sculpture of Skopas), in: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, (1941).

• This article incorporates information based on a translation of the equivalent article in the German Wikipedia.