Karl Frederik Kinch

Karl Frederik Kinch (15 March 1853 – 26 August 1921) was a Danish archaeologist and classical philologist. He explored and recorded monuments and tombs in Macedonia during the 1880s and 1890s, recording important archaeological finds before time and looters damaged them. He participated in excavations at Lindos and Vroulia on the island of Rhodes from 1902 to 1914. Karl Frederik received a good education at the University of Copenhagen and studied under , a professor of philology and archeology there. Kinch acquired his PhD in 1883 with a thesis on Quintus Curtius Rufus. Initially, he searched for a job that would put his philology to use and tutored Latin and French to children of wealthy families, but he couldn't find a permanent position. Instead, he traveled during the 1880s and early 1890s.

Macedonian excursions

Kinch was the first to describe and define Macedonian chamber tombs, distinguished by their vaulted roof, ornate façade, and Doric frieze above the entrance. Since his publications, around 100 other similar chamber tombs have been discovered by other archaeologists such as Alan Wace, all matching his description.

While most of Kinch's writings were published in French and German so as to reach a wider audience, he also was one of the only scholars to publish a significant work in the Danish language on Macedonian history for many years in his 1891 work ("Memories from Macedonia").

Selected works Quaestiones Curtianae criticae. (1883) (ebook) Observations Sur Les Noms Attribués a Des Graveurs De Monnaies Grecques (1889), in Revue Numismatique, pages 473-501 (ebook) L'arc de triomphe de Salonique (1890) (scan) Erindringer fra Makedonien (1891), in Tilskueren, pages 444–472 (scan) Beretning om en arkæologisk Rejse i Makedonien (1893), in Forhandlinger paa det fjerde Nordiske filologmøde i København den 18-21 juli 1892, pages 101–117 (ebook) De hellenske Kolonier paa den makedonske Halvø (1894), in Festskrift til Vilhelm Thomsen fra disciple (ebook) En Byzantiske Kirke in Festskrift til J.L. Ussing i anledning af hans 80-aarige fødselsdag, pages 144–156 (scan) Fouilles de Vroulia (Rhodes) (with Helvig Kinch, illustrations, and Christian Blinkenberg) (1914) (PDF, HathiTrust scan) Le Tombeau De Niausta: Tombeau Macédonien (1920) (PDF) (posthumously, by Christian Blinkenberg) Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 1: Les petits objets. (1931) (posthumously, by Christian Blinkenberg) Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 2: Inscriptions. (1941) (posthumously, by Christian Blinkenberg, edited by Ejnar Dyggve) Lindos. Fouilles et recherches, 1902-1914. Volume 3: Le sanctuaire d'Athana Lindia et l'architecture lindienne. (1960)

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