Aloys Hirt

Portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1785

Aloys Hirt[1] (27 June 1759 – 29 June 1837) was a German art historian and archaeologist of Ancient Greek and Roman architecture. He was responsible for the King of Prussia's antiquities collection from 1798, and became the University of Berlin's first professor of art theory and art history in 1810.

  1. ^ The frequently-used form Aloys Ludwig Hirt is demonstrably incorrect.

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