Eberhard Paul

Eberhard Friedrich Oscar Paul (born March 1, 1932 in Großgrabe ; † July 3, 2014 in Jena ) was a German classical archaeologist .

life and career

Eberhard Paul passed his Abitur at the Oberschule Dresden-Süd in 1950 and, after having attended language courses in Greek and Hebrew at the Sprachenkonvikt in Leipzig until 1951 , began studying art history and classical archeology at the University of Leipzig in the same year . In 1955 he finished his studies and in 1956 became a research assistant in the museum of the archaeological institute of Leipzig University. The doctorate on the subject of the Boeotian board idols followed in August 1958, reviewers were Johannes Jahn and Herbert Koch . The habilitation on the subject of studies on the problem of counterfeiting was accepted in July 1963. Reviewers were Jahn and Robert Heidenreich as well as Jiří Frel . Since September 1978 Paul was Associate Professor for Classical Archeology in Leipzig. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he became full professor of classical archeology in 1991. Eberhard Paul was significantly involved in the development of the Museum of Antiquities at the University of Leipzig , whose first director he was from its founding in 1994 until his retirement in 1997. During this time the first reorganization and reorganization of classical archeology took place after the fall of the Wall. His successor, both as a professor of classical archeology and as head of the Antikenmuseum in Leipzig, was Hans-Ulrich Cain .

Paul's main focus was on the field of Greek vases, Greek and Roman portrait sculpture and the problem of antiquity.

Paul was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1991 he became a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . He was married to the archaeologist Verena Paul-Zinserling .

Fonts (selection)

• Ancient world in clay. Greek and Roman terracottas from the Archaeological Institute in Leipzig , Seemann, Leipzig 1959
• Tanagra figures from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , photographs by Walter Danz, Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1962
• The false goddess. History of forgery of antiquities , Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1962 (also L. Schneider, Heidelberg 1962; Russian: Poddel'naja boginja , Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Moscow 1982)
• Wörlitz antiques. A collection of classicism sculptures , State Palaces and Gardens of Wörlitz, Oranienbaum and Luisium, Wörlitz 1965
• Ancient Rome , Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1970
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum . DDR 2, Leipzig 2 , Academy, Berlin 1973
• Greek terracottas , Insel, Leipzig 1974
• Fake antiquity. From the Renaissance to the Present , Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1981 (also: Schroll, Wien-München 1982 ISBN 3-7031-0536-4 ; Lithuanian: Suklastota deivė , Vyturys, Vilnius 1992 ISBN 5-7900-0355-9 )
• Antique ceramics in the Lindenau Museum , State Lindenau Museum, Altenburg 1992 (The collections of the State Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-86104-015-8
• with Susanne Pfisterer-Haas : Black-figure vases. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1995 (Small series of the Antiken-Museum der Universität Leipzig, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-929031-01-9
• Sponsors of the Ancient Museum. Yesterday and Today (Ed.), UniMedia, Baalsdorf 1996 ISBN 3-932019-06-7
• Attic red-figure vases , Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1997 (Small series of the Antiken-Museum der Universität Leipzig, Vol. 4) ISBN 3-931922-61-8

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 476-477.

Web links

• Eberhard Paul in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Eberhard Paul as a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Eberhard Friedrich Oscar Paul in: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig