Education
He was a native of Hanover, and studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin.
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He was a native of Hanover, and studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin.
In 1855 he obtained his doctorate at Berlin as a student of Eduard Gerhard. In 1863 he became an associate professor at the University of Halle, and from 1869 to 1877, he served as a professor of archaeology at the University of Vienna. In the 1870s, he performed two archaeological explorations at Samothrace (1873 and 1875).
In 1877 he succeeded Karl Bötticher as director of the Berlin Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities), In 1887, he became Secretariat of the German Archaeological Institute.
In 1878 with engineer Carl Humann, he began excavation at Pergamon in Asia Minor, a project that lasted until 1886. With Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he started a second archaeological dig at Pergamon in 1900.
Conze died in Berlin.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. German Archaeological Institute. Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.