Böttiger

Böttiger, KARL AUGUST, a German archaeologist, born in 1760 at Reichenbach, in Saxony, was successively rector at Guben (1784) and Bautzen (1790), and director of the Gymnasium at Weimar (1791). His literary activity was prodigious, but his works, once held in high estimation, are now only valued for the mass of materials they contain. From 1804 he delivered lectures on special branches of classical antiquities and art at Dresden, where he died in 1835. Among his writings may be mentioned Sabina (1803), Amalthea (1820-25), and Ideen zur Kunst-mythologie (1826-36). His smaller works have been collected and edited by Sillig (1837).