Adolf Schöll
Gustav Adolf Schöll (2 September 1805 in Brünn – 26 May 1882 in Jena) was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist. Biography. He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, obtaining his habilitation at Berlin in 1833. In June 1837 he was appointed professor of rhetoric, classical philology, aesthetics and art history at the University of Dorpat. In 1839/40, with Karl Otfried Müller, he participated in a study trip to Italy and Greece. In 1842 he was named an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Halle and, the following year, became Director of the  Grand Ducal art collections and the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar. In 1861 he was appointed head of the Grand Ducal Library and retired from his position at the drawing school.. Also in 1842, he married Johanna Henle (1816-1894), sister of the pathologist, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle. They had a daughter and four sons; including the classical philologists, Rudolf Schöll and Fritz Schöll.