Georg Lippold was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

. Lippold was a specialist of ancient Greek

Greek art

Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the ancient period...

 and Roman art

Roman art

Roman art has the visual arts made in Ancient Rome, and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Major forms of Roman art are architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work...

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He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Munich, and was one one of the last students of Adolf Furtwängler

Adolf Furtwängler

Adolf Furtwängler was a famous German archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director. He was the father of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and grandfather of the German archaeologist Andreas Furtwängler....

 (1852–1907), who was a major influence to the career of Lippold. Following graduation he worked at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, and in 1910–1911 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

. In 1920 he relocated to the University of Erlangen as a lecturer, where he was a full professor of archaeology from 1925 to 1953.

Lippold succeeded Walther Amelung

Walther Amelung

Walther Oskar Ernst Amelung was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Stettin. Amelung specialized in investigations of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture....

 (1865–1927) as cataloguer of sculptures at the Vatican

Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums , in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries, including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and...

, and in 1936 published Die Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums. His second volume of Vatican sculpture was published posthumously in 1956. After the death of archaeologist Paul Arndt

Paul Arndt

Paul Julius Arndt was a German classical archaeologist who was a native of Dresden.He studied classical art under Johannes Overbeck at the University of Leipzig, and classical archeology with Heinrich Brunn at the University of Munich...

 in 1937, he took over editorship of Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur (Greek and Roman Sculpture), as well as Griechische und römische Porträts (Greek and Roman Portraits). In 1923 he published Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen, which was a comprehensive examination of the "copy system" of ancient Greek statues.

Despite his outspoken opposition to Hitler and National Socialism, Lippold retained his professorship at Erlangen

Erlangen

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants....

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Selected publications

• Griechische Porträtstatuen, (Greek Portrait Statues), Munich 1912
• Kopien und Umbildungen griechischer Statuen (Copies and Transformations of Greek statues), Munich 1923
• Griechische Plastik , Handbuch der Archäologie (Greek sculpture, Textbook of Archaeology), Munich 1950.