Walter Herwig Schuchhardt (March 8, 1900 - January 14, 1976) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian who was born in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

. He specialized in ancient Greek art, particularly sculpture and art from the "Parthenon

Parthenon

The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their virgin patron. Its construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although...

 era" (5th century BC).
He was the son of archaeologist Carl Schuchhardt

Carl Schuchhardt

Carl Schuchhardt was a German archaeologist and museum director.Schuchhardt studied classical philology, modern languages, and archaeology in Leipzig, Göttingen and Heidelberg...

 (1859-1943).

Schuchhardt studied archaeology

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 at the Universities of Tübingen, Göttingen and Heidelberg, earning his doctorate in 1923 with a dissertation on Pergamon

Pergamon

Pergamon , or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC...

 friezes, titled Die Meister des grossen Frieses von Pergamon.

He received his habiltation in 1929 with the thesis Die Entstehung des Parthenonfrieses (Emergence of Parthenon friezes), and later taught classes at the University of Giessen

University of Giessen

The University of Giessen is officially called the Justus Liebig University Giessen after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser.-History:The University of Gießen is among the oldest institutions of...

 (1934-36). From 1936 to 1968 he was a professor at the University of Freiburg

University of Freiburg

The University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...

. Among his better known written works are the following:

• Die Sima des alten Athenatempels der Akropolis (The Sima
  Sima (architecture)
  In classical architecture, a sima is the upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter. Sima comes from the Greek simos, meaning bent upwards.- Form :...
  
   of the Ancient Athenian Temples of the Acropolis
  Acropolis
  Acropolis means "high city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity and is usually translated into English as Citadel . For purposes of defense, early people naturally chose elevated ground to build a new settlement, frequently a hill with precipitous sides...
  
  ), (1936)
• Die Kunst der Griechen (The Art of the Greeks), (1940)
• Archaische Plastik auf der Akropolis (Archaic Sculpture of the Acropolis), (1943)
• Die Epochen der griechischen Plastik (The Epochs of Greek Sculpture), (1959)
• Griechische Kunst (Greek Art), (1964)
• Geschichte der griechischen Kunst (History of Greek Art
  Greek art
  Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the ancient period...
  
  ), (1971)
• "(Greek art) History Of Art & Architecture" English translation by S. MacCormack: (1990)