Walter Andrae

Walter Andrae (February 18, 1875 – July 28, 1956) was a German archaeologist and architect born near Leipzig.

Andrae initially studied architecture at the Dresden University of Technology, where he befriended a younger student, Julius Jordan, with a life-changing effect on him.

[1] In 1898, Andrae participated in an archaeological dig at Babylon under the leadership of Robert Koldewey (1855–1925).

Starting in 1923, he taught classes in architectural history at Technische Universität Berlin.

Among his better known writings were Der wiedererstandene Assur, and the autobiographical Lebenserinnerungen eines Ausgräbers (Memoirs of an excavator).