Thomas Fischer (ancient historian)

Thomas Fischer (born September 23, 1944 in Tübingen ; † January 31, 1994 in Bochum ) was a German ancient historian and numismatist .

Thomas Fischer was the grandson of the orientalist Enno Littmann and the son of the physician Herbert Fischer . After graduating from Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen , he studied Ancient History, Egyptology and Classical Archeology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1963 to 1969 . In 1970 he received his doctorate in Munich with a thesis supervised by Hermann Bengtson on Antiochus VII's campaign against the Parthians . He then worked as a research assistant in Tübingen at the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East and in 1976 moved to the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he worked as a lecturer and head of the ancient coin collection. 1984 followed the habilitation. Until his death in 1994, Fischer worked as a private lecturer.

His main research interests were Seleucid numismatics, especially in connection with biblical history, as well as Roman numismatics and the philosophy of antiquity . He was the editor of the “Little Booklets of the Coin Collection at the Ruhr University Bochum”.

Fonts

• Investigations into the Parthian War of Antiochus VII in the context of the Seleucid history. Self-published, Tübingen 1970 (also dissertation, Munich 1970).
• The Roman gold coins in the coin collection of the Ruhr University Bochum (= small booklets of the coin collection at the Ruhr University Bochum. No. 1). Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1976, ISBN 3-921543-48-7 .
• Drafting a standard proseminar in ancient history. Rule and principate of Augustus. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1979, ISBN 3-88339-052-6 .
• Seleucids and Maccabees. Contributions to the history of the Seleucids and the political events in Judea during the 1st half of the 2nd century BC Chr. Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1980, ISBN 3-88339-138-7 .
• as ed. with Peter Ilisch : LAGOM. Festschrift for Peter Berghaus for his 60th birthday on November 20, 1979. Numismatischer Verlag der Münzenhandlung Dombrowski, Münster 1981, ISBN 3-921507-03-0 .
• Silver from the tomb of David? Jewish and Hellenistic things on coins of the Seleucid king Antiochus VII. 132–130 BC Chr. (= Small notebooks of the coin collection at the Ruhr University Bochum. No. 7). Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1983, ISBN 3-88339-325-8 .
• Molon and his coins (222–220 BC) (= small notebooks of the coin collection at the Ruhr University Bochum. No. 9). Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1988, ISBN 3-88339-325-8 .
• Ideology in writing and pictures. Augustus as the "father" of his sons and the fatherland (= small notebooks of the coin collection at the Ruhr University Bochum. No. 8). Studienverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1990, ISBN 3-88339-820-9 .

Web links

• Literature by Thomas Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• CV and epilogue. In: Thomas Fischer: Investigations into the Parthian War Antiochus VII. In the context of the Seleucid history. Self-published, Tübingen 1970, p. 125.
• Silvia Hurter: Thomas Fischer 1944-1994. In: Schweizer Münzblätter 173 (1994), p. 26 ( PDF; 174 KB ).