Arthur Stein (ancient historian)

Arthur Stein (also Artur Stein ; born June 10, 1871 in Vienna , † November 15, 1950 in Prague ) was an Austrian - Czech ancient historian and survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Stone graduated after passing the Matura at the school from 1892 to 1897 study of classical philology at the University of Vienna . He completed his studies in 1898 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. and was then able to go on a one-year research trip thanks to a scholarship. Afterwards it was to 1915 school professor in Vienna and then as a lecturer at Charles University in Prague , where he in 1915 for Greek and Roman history and archeology is habilitated stone was in 1918 as a professor nominated for Roman and Greek history at the University of Prague, where he taught until the summer semester of 1938. Even before the rest of the Czech Republic was broken up by the German Reich , Stein had to leave the university due to his Jewish origins. Research assignments were withdrawn from him at the instigation of National Socialist colleagues. Stein was married to Flora, nee Utitz (* 1884), since 1908; the marriage remained childless. Stone was in the on 6 July 1942 Theresienstadt ghetto deported and was there as a "celebrity". At the beginning of May 1945 Stein was liberated in Theresienstadt and died in Prague in 1950.

Scientifically, Stein was mainly active in the field of prosopography of the Roman Empire. Together with Edmund Groag he was entrusted by the Prussian Academy of Sciences with the revision of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani . The first two volumes appeared in 1933 and 1936. In 1939, Groag and Stein had to give up the official editorship of the work, but continued to work on the third volume, which appeared on the title page in 1943 without any attribution.

literature

Artur Betz : Professor Arthur Stein †. In: Anzeiger für die Altarwissenschaft . Volume 4, 1951, Col. 193 f.
Martina Pesditschek: Stein, Arthur. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 146 f. (Direct links on p. 146 , p. 147 ).
Volker Losemann : Stein, Arthur. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1184–1186.

Web links

Literature by and about Arthur Stein in the catalog of the German National Library
Stein, Arthur . In: The Theresienstadt Lexicon
Photo of Artur Stein in the celebrity album of the Theresienstadt ghetto

Individual evidence

^ Martin Safe : The Classical Philology at the German University of Prague 1849-1945. In: Eikasmós . Volume 14, 2003, pp. 393-419, here p. 415 ( PDF ).
^ Hans Lemberg: Universities in National Competition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56392-0 , p. 181.
↑ Stefan Rebenich : Between adaptation and resistance? The Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1933 to 1945. In: Beat Näf (Hrsg.): Antiquity and Classical Studies in the Time of National Socialism and Fascism. Mandelbachtal / Cambridge 2001, pp. 219–220 ( PDF ).

personal data
SURNAME	Stein, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stein, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Czechoslovak ancient historian and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 1950
Place of death	Prague

[1] Martin Safe : The Classical Philology at the German University of Prague 1849-1945. In: Eikasmós . Volume 14, 2003, pp. 393-419, here p. 415 ( PDF ).

[2] Hans Lemberg: Universities in National Competition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56392-0 , p. 181.

[3] Stefan Rebenich : Between adaptation and resistance? The Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1933 to 1945. In: Beat Näf (Hrsg.): Antiquity and Classical Studies in the Time of National Socialism and Fascism. Mandelbachtal / Cambridge 2001, pp. 219–220 ( PDF ).