Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born the son of a poor shoemaker, Martin Winckelmann, in a rural village of the Mark Brandenburg, in what was then Prussia. He was an extremely intelligent and academically gifted child and was thus able to attend a formal Latin school. In 1735, he went to Berlin to study at a high school. The young Winckelmann was graduated and in 1737 registered in the department of theology at the University of Halle. His interests, however, were in the study of classical antiquity. He left after two years and worked as a private tutor until 1741,...
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