Volker Fadinger

Volker Fadinger 2014

Volker Fadinger (born February 7, 1941 in Schulzendorf , Teltow district , now Dahme-Spreewald district ) is a German ancient historian . He lives in Berlin-Zehlendorf .

Volker Fadinger is the son of the graduate engineer Wilhelm Fadinger and his wife Charlotte, nee Schöne. At the beginning of 1945 his parents left the Brandenburg homeland with him, his twin brother and a younger sister just before they were occupied by the Red Army . They fled to relatives in Gendorf, today part of Burgkirchen an der Alz in Upper Bavaria , where the family found a new home. After four years of attending elementary school in Burgkirchen, he entered the ancient-language humanistic grammar school in the nearby Burghausen / Salzach in autumn 1950 , where he graduated from high school in June 1960.

From 1960 to 1966 he studied Latin , Greek and history at the University of Munich . He completed his studies with the 1st state examination for teaching at grammar schools. This was followed by postgraduate studies until 1968 at the Free University of Berlin in the subjects of history, classical philology , philosophy and archeology .

In 1969, Fadinger received his doctorate in Ancient History at the University of Munich with the dissertation Source investigations on the history of the 2nd triumvirate under Robert Werner and Siegfried Lauffer . In the same year it came in a much expanded version under the title: The foundation of the principle. Source-critical and constitutional investigations on Cassius Dio and the parallel tradition , Munich 1969 in the book trade.

During his studies, Fadinger was a temporary research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Munich. From March 4, 1966 to June 30, 1967 he taught and researched, first as a research assistant, then from July 1, 1967 as research assistant to Robert Werner at the Department of Ancient History at the Free University of Berlin. In 1970 he was appointed to the Academic Council , and in 1971 he was appointed Professor of Ancient History (C2) at the Free University of Berlin. He stayed in this position at the Department of Ancient History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin until he retired on April 1, 2006. Fadinger has been married since 1966. The marriage resulted in two sons.

His main areas of research are archaic and classical Greece, the influence of oriental cultures on Greek and Roman civilization, the crisis of the late Roman republic and the Augustan principate . In his investigations, Fadinger is particularly interested in Christianity and its relationship to the Roman state, the Augustus principle, the development and nature of the institution of ordination in antiquity , the historical Jesus, the Greek tyranny , Solon and the hero's tomb of Vergina .

Writings and essays (selection)

• Source research on the history of the 2nd Triumvirate. Dissertation Munich 1969.
• The rationale of the principate. Source-critical and constitutional studies on Cassius Dio and the parallel tradition. Munich 1969.
• The state as the prey of the parties. Crisis and fall of the Roman Republic (133–30 BC). Volume 1. Prehistory and beginning of the crisis from approx. 200 BC Until the death of C. Marius in 86 BC. Chr. (Self-published), Berlin 2000.
• Greek tyranny and the ancient Orient. In: K. Raaflaub (ed.) With the collaboration of Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Beginnings of political thinking in antiquity. Middle Eastern cultures and the Greeks. Writings of the Historical College, ed. v. the Stiftung Historisches Kolleg., Kolloquien 24, Munich 1993, pp. 263-316 and pp 404-412. ISBN 3-486-55993-1 .
• Solon's doctrine of Eunomia and the idea of ​​justice of the ancient oriental rule of creation. In: H.-J. Gehrke, A. Möller (ed.), Past and Lifeworld. Social communication, awareness of tradition and historical awareness. (= ScriptOralia 90). Tübingen 1996, pp. 179-218. ISBN 3-8233-5400-0 . In addition now the detailed review and examination of Fadinger's theses by H. BARTA, Solon's Eunomia and the concept of the Egyptian Ma'at - A comparison to Volker Fadinger's takeover thesis , in: Robert Rollinger-Brigitte Truschnegg (ed.), Antiquity and the Mediterranean : The ancient world on this side and the other side of the Levant . Festschrift for Peter W. Haider on his 60th birthday, Oriens et Occidens 12, Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2006, 409–443. ISBN 978-3-515-08738-4 . Even more detailed DERS., "Eunomia" and Egyptian "Ma'at". In: Graeca non leguntur? On the origins of European law in ancient Greece, Volume II - Archaic Basics, Part 2, Chap. 17, Wiesbaden 2011, 217-277. ISBN 978-3-447-06587-0 .
• The assassination attempt on King Philip II of Macedon in Aigai in 336 BC Chr. In: P. Neukam (Ed.): Legacy and Challenge, Dialogue School and Science (= Classical Languages ​​and Literatures, Vol. XXXI), Munich 1997, pp. 101–145. ISBN 3-7627-8366-7 .
• Peisistratos and Phye. A contribution to the sacred legitimation of tyrannical rule in the archaic city-state of Athens. In: W. Pircher, M. Treml (eds.) Tyrannis und Verführung , Vienna 2000, pp. 9–70. ISBN 3-85132-247-9 .
• Sulla as Imperator Felix and "Epaphroditos" (= "Darling of Aphrodite") , in: N. Ehrhardt-LM Günther (ed.), Resistance-Adaptation-Integration. The Greek world and Rome. Festschrift for Jürgen Deininger on his 65th birthday, Steiner-Verlag Stuttgart 2002, 155–188. ISBN 3-515-07911-4 .
• Entry with hurdles . In: Wikimedia Germany e. V. (Ed.): Everything about Wikipedia and the people behind the largest encyclopedia in the world. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2011, p. 273, ISBN 978-3-455-50236-7 .
• Peisistratos of Athens as aisymnet and tyrant: The two stages of a dictatorial seizure of power in ancient Greece, in: M. Schuol- Chr. Wendt- J. Wilker (ed.), Exempla imitanda. Coping with the present with the past? Festschrift for E. Baltrusch on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Göttingen-Bristol, CT, USA, 2016, 47–63. ISBN 978-3-525-25323-6 . ISBN 978-3-647-25323-7 (e-book).

literature

• Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: K. Kubicki, S. Lönnendonker (eds.): The history sciences at the Free University of Berlin , Göttingen 2008, pp. 16 ff., 21f, 30f. and 33, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Fadinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Volker Fadinger at the FU Berlin