FURTWANGLER, ADOLF (1853-1907), German arch aeologist, was born on June 3o, 1853, at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, and died at Athens on Oct. io, 1907. From 1878 to 18i9 he was engaged in work on the excavations at Olympia, and in 1884 be came professor of archaeology in Berlin, exchanging his chair in 1894 for one at Munich. He conducted the excavations at Aegina and Orchomenos in 1901-03, and was the author of many important works on archaeology, notably Die antiken Gemmen (1900) , and Griechische V asenmalerei, begun in 1900 with Reichold, and continued by other scholars.