Background
Wolfgang Wurster was born in Aalen, Germany.
anthropologist archaeologist art historian architectural historian
Wolfgang Wurster was born in Aalen, Germany.
He studied architecture at the Technology Union München.
He undertook additional studies in art history and American history, in the United States and Spain. In 1963 he received his Diplom from his German university. From this point on, he concentrated on excavation methodology, Communications Resource Management, and the history of architecture.
In 1971, he obtained a doctorate of engineering, his dissertation being Der dorische Peripteraltempel auf dem Kolonnahügel in Aegina.
He did field work in the Mediterranean and South American (Ecuador and Peru). His book Archäologische Expeditionen durch die Hochkulturen Südamerikas (1991) brought him the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn"s Ceram-Preis for the best book of archeology.
Burkhart Vogt: Wurster † (7 July 1937 – 29 December 2003), In: Bericht über die 42. Tagung für Ausgrabungswissenschaft und Bauforschung, Habelt, Bonn 2004 Klaus Dornisch: Einem Freund zur Erinnerung.
Wurster in memoriam, In Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie 20 (2004), South. 198-200.
German Archaeological Institute]
In addition to holding academic positions in Munich, he also was a faculty member of the Universität Darmstadt.