Camillo Praschniker

Camillo Praschniker (13 October 1884, Vienna – 1 October 1949, Vienna) was an Austrian archaeologist. He studied classical philology and archaeology at the universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Berlin. At Berlin, his instructors were Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, Hermann Winnefeld, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Heinrich Wölfflin. From 1908 to 1910, via a travel grant from the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), he conducted research in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1912 he was named secretary of the ÖAI.