Salis, Arnold von, 1881-1958 (Autor Personal)

Die Kunst der Griechen, 1923: title page (Arnold von Salis)

Dictionary of Art Historians, via WWW, September 28, 2011 (Salis, Arnold von; born 1881 in Liestal (near Basel), Switzerland; died 1958 in Zurich, Switzerland; specialist in ancient Greek and hellenic art; graduated from a Gymnasium in Basel and attended courses in classics, philology and art history at prominent German-speaking universities; his Ph. D. was granted in 1905 with a dissertation, written in Latin, on the vestiages of Doric plays in Attic comedy; in 1906 he began publishing on archaeology and traveling to Greece and Asia Minor; worked as an assistant at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin; was appointed extraordinarius professor at the University of Rostock, Germany, 1910-1916; named full professor at the University of Münster in 1916; became professor at Heidelberg University in 1929; accepted a position at the University of Zurich in 1940, where he reorganized the archaeological museum and advised many students on their dissertations; accepted a lectureship at the University of Basel,1941-1948; retired in 1951 as emeritus at the University of Zurich)

Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, via WWW, September 28, 2011 (Salis, Arnold von; born July 19, 1881 in Liestal; died April 2, 1958 in Zurich; student of classical philology, archeology and art history in Basel, Berlin and Bonn; Doctorate in classical philology, 1905, University of Basel; employed at excavations in Miletus (now Turkey), 1906; assistant at the Historical Museum of Basel and at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 1908; assistant at the Academic Kunstmuseum, Bonn,1909; professor in Rostock until 1916; full professor in Münster, 1916, in Heidelberg, 1929, and in Zurich, 1940-1951; lecturer in Basel, 1941-1948; visting professor in Freiburg, 1950-1951)