Fritz Eichler was an Austrian archaeologist.

He was born in Graz

Graz

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, where he graduated in 1910, and studied in Berlin, England, Italy, Greece and Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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, and was active from 1913 to 1933 as the antiquity collector at the Kunsthistorischen Museums, the Historical Art Museum in Vienna. From 1933 to 1935, he was the director of the antiquity collection. Before his retirement, he was the first director of the historic art museum from 1951 to 1952. He was a professor at classical archaeology at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

. He teamed up with Otto Walter

Otto Walter

Otto Walter was an Austrian archaeologist.He was a co-worker from 1910-1945 and was a director of the Österreichische Archäologische Institute, lit. the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens. He became a professor in 1945 at the University of Vienna...

 and became a director of the Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts, the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He managed the excavations at Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...

 and took the institute at Athens. He excavated until 1961, he applied for the management of the OEAI until 1969. His research applied for antiques from the small art to the sculptures connected with Ephesus. He died in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

.

Works

• Führer durch die Antikensammlung = Leader of the Collection of Antiques, 1926
• Die Skulpturen des Heraions von Argos = The Sculptures of the Heraion
  Heraion of Argos
  The Heraion of Argos was the temple in the greatest sanctuary in the Argolid, dedicated to Hera, whose epithet "Argive Hera" , is familiar to readers of Homer. Hera herself claims to be the protector of Argos in Iliad IV, 50–52): "The three towns I love best are Argos, Sparta and Mycenae of...
  
  s of Argos
  Argos
  Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...
  
  , in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 19/29, 1929 p. 15
• Die Reliefs des Heroon von Gjölbaschi-Trysa = The reliefs of Heroon
  Heroon
  A heroon , also called heroum, was a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero. It was often erected over his supposed tomb or cenotaph....
  
  of Gjölbaschi-Trysa, 1950
• Kunsthistorisches Museum I, Die rotfigurigen attischen Trinkgefäße und Pyxiden = The red Attic drinking containers and Pyxis, 1951
• Die Bronzestatue aus Ephesos in verbesserter Wiederherstellung = The Bronze Statue from Ephesus in Improved Re-establishment in JbKS, Vienna, 1953, p. 15
• Kunsthistorisches Museum I, Rotfigurige attische Vorratsgefäße, 1959
• Nochmals die Sphinxgruppe von Ephesos, in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 45, 1960, p. 5
• Zum Partherdenkmal von Ephesos in, 1971, p. 102