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Ein Buch voll ‚Merkwürdigkeiten‘. Daniel Bruckners Beschreibung der Ruinen von Augusta Raurica und andere frühe Dokumentationen zu den Ruinen von Augst

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Abstract

With the advent of the Renaissance, scholars in the 16th century became more aware of the ruins of ancient Augusta Raurica, and descriptions of the decaying ruins found their way into the then-popular chronicles (‘Landeskunden’). The early discussion of the often mysterious building remains was, however, predominantly anecdotal; the illustrations had hardly any documentary character, but were committed to a romantic idea of ruins. An exception is the study of the theatre at Augst carried out by Basilius Amerbach from 1588-1591. Together with Hans Bock the Elder, he undertook extensive documentation and surveying work in the unearthed ruins and created a volume of descriptions, sketches, and plans that was intended to form the basis for an academic treatise, which was, however, never published. The change from anecdotal to scientific presentation of the remains did not take place until around the middle of the 18th century. The first attempts were made in Johann Daniel Schöpflin’s AlsatiaIllustrata and on a larger scale in the 23rd volume of Daniel Bruckner’s Merkwürdigkeiten der LandschaftBasel published in 1763, to which the draughtsman Emanuel Büchel contributed a large number of illustrations. While the descriptions of the other ruins often required measurements taken in the field under difficult conditions, all representations of the theatre continued until the 1880s to be based almost exclusively on Amerbach’s and Bock’s documentation from the late 16th century.

Abstract

With the advent of the Renaissance, scholars in the 16th century became more aware of the ruins of ancient Augusta Raurica, and descriptions of the decaying ruins found their way into the then-popular chronicles (‘Landeskunden’). The early discussion of the often mysterious building remains was, however, predominantly anecdotal; the illustrations had hardly any documentary character, but were committed to a romantic idea of ruins. An exception is the study of the theatre at Augst carried out by Basilius Amerbach from 1588-1591. Together with Hans Bock the Elder, he undertook extensive documentation and surveying work in the unearthed ruins and created a volume of descriptions, sketches, and plans that was intended to form the basis for an academic treatise, which was, however, never published. The change from anecdotal to scientific presentation of the remains did not take place until around the middle of the 18th century. The first attempts were made in Johann Daniel Schöpflin’s AlsatiaIllustrata and on a larger scale in the 23rd volume of Daniel Bruckner’s Merkwürdigkeiten der LandschaftBasel published in 1763, to which the draughtsman Emanuel Büchel contributed a large number of illustrations. While the descriptions of the other ruins often required measurements taken in the field under difficult conditions, all representations of the theatre continued until the 1880s to be based almost exclusively on Amerbach’s and Bock’s documentation from the late 16th century.

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