Paul Wolters

{{Short description|German classical archaeologist}}

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| birth_name = Paul Heinrich August Wolters

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| birth_place = Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|10|21|1858|09|01}}

| death_place = Munich, Germany

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| occupation = Classical archaeologist

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Paul Heinrich August Wolters (1 September 1858 in Bonn – 21 October 1936 in Munich) was a German classical archaeologist who specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art. He was the son of theologian Albrecht Wolters (1822–1878).

He studied classical philology and archaeology at the Universities of Halle, Strasbourg and Bonn, obtaining his PhD in 1882. By way of a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), he took a study trip to Italy, Greece and Asia Minor (1885–1887). From 1900 to 1908, he was a professor at the University of Würzburg, and in 1908, succeeded Adolf Furtwangler as professor of classical archaeology at the University of Munich. Here, he was also director of the Glyptothek Museum.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&dq=%22wolters%2C+Paul%22+1858&pg=PA613 Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10] by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter Incorporated Among his better known students was archaeologist Ernst Buschor.[http://www.arthistorians.info/woltersp Dictionary of Art Historians] biographical information

In 1888/89, he performed excavatory work at the Kabeirion of Thebes, a rural sanctuary containing temples and theaters.[http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?ID=14695 GTP.gr] Kabeirion of Thebes In 1925, with Gabriel Welter, he conducted an archaeological excavation at Aegina Kolonna.[http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa500d_0x0016f341 347056 ÖAW] Felten Gauss Smetana (Kern SPM)