About Emanuel Löwy
Lived 1857 – 1938 (aged 80). Emanuel Löwy was an Austrian and Italian anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher, classical scholar and art historian.
Emanuel Löwy (also Loewy; September 1, 1857, Vienna – February 11, 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian classical archaeologist and theorist who employed the methodology of universal psychological sources of form in his work.
Löwy was influenced by the concept of "das Gedächtnisbild" by Ernst Brücke. Löwy was also a friend of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Among his academic specialties was the art of ancient Greek vase painting.
Löwy served as a professor of archaeology at the University of Rome (1891–1915) where he taught, among others, Giulio Giglioli. Löwy was also professor of archaeology at the University of Vienna (1918–1938).
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Austrian archaeologist (1857-1938)
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Emanuel Löwy was born on 1 September 1857 in Vienna.
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Emanuel Löwy died on 10 February 1938 in Vienna.
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Emanuel Löwy was an anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher, classical scholar and art historian.
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Emanuel Löwy was Austrian and Italian.
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