Wolfgang Helbig [SEP] place of birth
Wolfgang Helbig
Wolfgang Helbig (2 February 1839 – 6 October 1915) was a German classical archaeologist born in Dresden. He is known for his studies involving the wall paintings of Campania (Pompeii).
From 1856 to 1861 he studied philology and archaeology at the University of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft (fraternity) Hannovera, and also at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Otto Jahn, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. He received his doctorate at Bonn in 1861 with
to date from the Orientalizing period, in the first half of the seventh century BC.
Discovery.
The fibula was presented to the public in 1887 by Wolfgang Helbig, an archaeologist. According to some sources, Helbig did not explain how he had come to acquire the artifact at the time , although others state that the fibula "was first made known to the public in three short articles in the "Römische Mitteilungen" for 1887 where it is said to have been purchased in Palestrina by a friend of Helbig in