Theodor von Lüpke

From 1894 to 1898 he studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Munich and Hannover, where he was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

From 1907 to 1911 he served as a Regierungsbaumeister (government architect) in the Prussian Ministry of Geistlichen, Unterrichts- und Medizinalangelegenheiten.

[1] He provided photogrammic documentation for architectural structures in Constantinople (the Hagia Sophia, 1902 and the Theodosian walls, 1928), in Lebanon (the excavation site at Baalbek, 1902–03), in Ethiopia (monuments investigated by the German "Aksum-Expedition", 1906), in Anatolia (the ancient Roman temple at Aizanoi, 1928) and at various locations in Europe.

[1] He was a co-founder of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie (1909) and of the Koldewey-Gesellschaft (Koldewey Society, 1926).

He was a corresponding member of the Deutschen Archäologischen Institut and of the International Society for Photogrammetry.

German "Aksum Expedition", February 1906. From left: Theodor von Lüpke , Dr. Erich Kaschke, Gebre Selassie (Governor of the province of Tigre), Enno Littmann and Daniel Krencker .