Karl Vollmöller

Emerging from a Stuttgart merchant family, he pursued classical philology, art and painting at Berlin and Paris before earning a doctorate in archaeology at Bonn in 1901, during which time he contributed poems to Simplicissimus and other periodicals and participated in excavations at Pergamon and Megara. His early literary activity included translations of Sophocles and Aeschylus, which attracted… Read more

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