Friedrich Matz

Friedrich Matz (13 October 1843, in Lübeck – 30 December 1874, in Berlin) was a German archaeologist.

From 1863 he studied philology and archaeology at the University of Bonn as a favored student of Otto Jahn.

In 1867 he received his doctorate with a dissertation thesis on Philostratus, titled De Philostratorum in describendis imaginibus fide specimen prius.

In 1870 he was tasked by the Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute to create a register of ancient sarcophagi.

[1][2] In other research, he investigated ancient statues in England and France, and examined a collection of long-forgotten manuscripts of antiquity belonging to the Duke of Coburg-Gotha.