Theodor von Lüpke

Theodor Friedrich Heinrich von Lüpke (12 April 1873, Hermannsburg – 13 April 1961, Bückeburg) was a German architectural historian known for his work in the field of photogrammetry.

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''. From 1911 to 1938 he was director of the Royal Photogrammic Institute for ''Denkmalaufnahmen'' (records of monuments).

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.

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. Provided by Wikipedia