Wolfgang Helbig
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Wolfgang Helbig (February 2, 1839 – October 6, 1915) was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Dresden.
From 1856 to 1861 he studied philology and archaeology at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn, and in 1862 became a member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) to Rome. During his career he traveled extensively throughout Italy, Greece, Russia, France and North Africa. From 1887 he lived in Rome as a private scholar and art dealer, and was broker of numerous works of art for the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
Helbig is remembered for his extensive scientific studies involving the wall paintings of Pompeii. In 1887, he presented the now controversial Praeneste fibula. In 1892, he published the first edition of Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, which was a very popular guide to the classical antiquities in Rome.
Selected publications
- Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Kampaniens (Murals of the Cities of Campania buried by Vesuvius), Leipzig 1868
- Untersuchungen über die Campanische Wandmalerei (Studies of Campanian wall painting), Leipzig 1873
- Die Italiker in der Po-Ebene (The ancient Italic peoples of the Po River Plain), Leipzig 1879
- Das homerische Epos, aus den Denkmälern erläutert (The Homeric epic, from the Monuments explained), Leipzig 1884. 2nd Edition 1887
