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August Emil Braun

August or Auguste Emil Braun (19 April 1809, Gotha, Germany – 12 September 1856, Rome, Italy) was a German archaeologist.

Braun initially studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Göttingen, then continued his education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technical Educational Institute Dresden. In 1833, he accepted Eduard Gerhard's invitation to Berlin, where he made the decision to devote his career to art history.

In the autumn of 1833, he accompanied Gerhard to Rome, where in a short amount of time, he became a librarian, and subsequently secretary to the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (later the German Archaeological Institute). In Rome, he used his contacts in the art market to acquire antiquities and paintings for collectors, and he established a electroplating workshop to create reproductions of ancient and modern works of art.

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