BODE, Wilhelm von, German and archaeologist : b. Kalvorde, Brunswick, 10 Dec. 1845. He first intended to become a law yer, but was so attracted by the arts that he renounced this idea and took up the study of archmology in Berlin, G6ttingen and then in Vienna. In 1872 he became an assistant at the Royal Museum of Berlin, in the department of Christian plastics, having the directorship in it conferred on him in 1880. He had already given proof of his remarkable ability to build up a collection both in his own department and in that of paintings. In 1890 he was advanced to the position of director of the Picture Gal lery, a place that he has since continued to fill with great distinction. Bade was made privy councillor in 1909 and was elevated to the hereditary nobility in 1914. He is a mem ber of the academies of Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. He acts in at least an advisory capac ity for numbers of other art institutions in Germany, and his labors have gone so far afield as to include the cataloguing of the bronzes in the collection of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. His
word is almost law among German art-lovers and they have responded times without num ber to his appeals for support when important art objects have come on the market— to go almost inevitably to the enriching of the na tional museums. An idea of the breadth of his attainments may be gained from the titles of the authoritative works he has published on such subjects as 'Studies in the History of Dutch Painting' (1883); his editing of the 4th to 8th editions of Burckhardt's 'Cicerone); 'Donatello in Padua' (1883); 'Italian Sculp tors of the Renaissance' (1887); 'Rembrandt' (with Hoffstede de Groot 1897-1900), and 'Rugs and Carpets of the Near East in Ancient Times' (1901).