Walter Eder

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Walter Eder in July 2006

Walter Eder (born April 2, 1941 in Winterberg, Bohemian Forest , † July 16, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German ancient historian .

Life

Walter Eder, son of Emanuel Eder and his wife Anna, née Sykora, had to leave their home in Winterberg in Bohemia in July 1946 together with his parents, the older brother and the three-month-old sister. The family was moved to Bavaria and first came to Anzenkirchen . In the summer of 1951 she moved to Passau , where her father first worked as a proofreader for Passavia and then for Passauer Neue Presse .

Walter Eder attended elementary school in Anzenkirchen from 1947 to 1951 and the Leopoldinum Humanist High School in Passau from 1951 to 1960 . After graduating from high school, he studied classical philology and history at the University of Munich from the winter semester 1960 to the summer semester 1965 . From the summer semester 1964 to the summer semester 1965 he studied German and from the winter semester 1965 to 1966 law and economics . In the summer of 1965 he completed his studies for the higher teaching post with the 1st state scientific examination in the subjects Greek, Latin and history and in the same year acquired the Magister Artium in the subjects Ancient History, Greek and Latin. From March 1, 1966, he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the Free University of Berlin . From the winter semester 1966/67 to 1969 he continued his law studies at the FU. In 1968 he married Gabriele Dunst. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

In 1969 he received his doctorate with Robert Werner with the dissertation The pre-Sullan repetition procedure in Munich ; Wolfgang Kunkel was the second reviewer . In 1970 Eder was appointed Academic Councilor at the FU and in 1971 Professor of Ancient History. In 1978 he completed his habilitation on the subject of Servitus publica. Studies on the origin, development and function of public slavery in Rome at the FU. In 1980/81 and again in 1984/1985 he conducted research at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In 1981 he was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC , and in 1988/89 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . In 1992 Walter Eder was appointed C-4 professor for ancient history at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he taught and researched until his retirement in 2006.

Since 1994, on behalf of the archaeological excavation management under Volkmar von Graeve, he has been responsible for the historical and tourist preparation of the ancient ruins of Miletus in Turkey . From 1972 to 1997 he took on numerous tour guides throughout the Mediterranean, Europe and North America.

Eder was a co-founder of the Willy Scharnow Institute , the Institute for Tourism at the Free University of Berlin. There he acted as the scientific director of the scientific travel guide and planning department and was responsible for setting up a tourism archive (today the historical archive for tourism ). After his appointment to Bochum in 1992, he remained a lecturer at the Willy Scharnow Institute, which ceased teaching in 2009.

Hartmut Leppin dedicated his book Das Erbe der Antike (2010) to the memory of Walter Eder and wrote about him in the foreword: “He was a great, long-unrecognized stimulus for the subject, because he knew how to think in an original way, but he died too early to to write down everything that he thought of new and generously passed on orally to so many. "

Focus of research and teaching

Eder dealt with the history of the Mediterranean and the neighboring areas from the immigration of Indo-Europeans in the 2nd millennium BC. Until the end of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th / 6th centuries. Century, i.e. the whole of antiquity or classical antiquity in its widest temporal and spatial expansions. The focus of his work was analyzes of the emergence and decay of state structures, their religious, social and economic conditions and consequences as well as the related social and cultural conditions of ancient political systems and ways of life as well as their scientific representation in modern times. The study of Roman legal history benefited his publications on the comparative legal and constitutional history of antiquity.

Eder was one of the specialist editors for the New Pauly in the Ancient History section and wrote numerous articles himself. Together with the ancient orientalist Johannes Renger , he was also the editor of the first supplement volume of the New Pauly with the title of rulers' chronologies of the ancient world. Names, dates, dynasties.

Eder covered the same breadth of his scientific research on ancient history with the topics of his courses. Unusually for the scientific career of an ancient historian was Eder's commitment to scientific questions of the tourism industry, which made him co-founder of the Institute for Tourism at the Free University. He remained associated with him as a lecturer even after his appointment to the Ruhr University. This has resulted in numerous scientific articles and lectures on the practice of tour guidance as well as monument preservation and tourism.

Publications on Ancient History (selection)

  • The pre-Sullan repetition method. Munich 1969 (Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, dissertation, July 18, 1969).
  • Servitus publica. Studies on the origin, development and function of public slavery in Rome (= research on ancient slavery. Vol. 13). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03365-3 (Berlin, Free University, habilitation paper, 1978).
  • The Political Significance of the Codification of Law in Archaic Societies: An Unconventional Hypothesis. In: Kurt A. Raaflaub (Ed.): Social Struggles in Archaic Rome. New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1986, ISBN 0-520-05528-4 , pp. 262-300, (Expanded and updated edition. Blackwell, Oxford 2005, ISBN 1-4051-0061-3 , pp. 205, 239 -267).
  • Selfconfidence and Resistance: The Role of demos and plebs after the Expulsion of the Tyrant in Athens and the King in Rome. In: Toro Yuge, Masoki Doi (Ed.): Forms of Control and Subordination in Antiquity. Proceedings. The Society for Studies on Resistance Movements in Antiquity et al., Tokyo et al. 1988, ISBN 90-04-08349-9 , pp. 165-175.
  • as editor: State and Statehood in the Early Roman Republic. Files from a symposium, 12. – 15. July 1988, Free University of Berlin. Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05539-8 .
  • Who Rules? Power and Participation in Athens and Rome. In: Anthony Mohlo, Kurt Raaflaub, Julia Emlen (Eds.): City States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy. Athens and Rome, Florence and Venice. Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-515-05873-7 , pp. 169-196.
  • Polis and Politai. The dissolution of the aristocratic state and the development of the political citizen. In: Irma Wehgartner (Red.): Euphronios and his time. Colloquium in Berlin, 19./20. April 1991 on the occasion of the exhibition Euphronios, the painter. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88609-129-5 , pp. 24–38.
  • Group consciousness and xenophobia. Forms of integration and exclusion in ancient societies. In: Intercultural. Forum for intercultural communication, education and advice. Volume 4, 1993, pp. 25-39.
  • as translator: Marcel Detienne : Dionysus. Divine wildness (= Edition Pandora. Vol. 5). Translated from the French by Gabriele and Walter Eder. Campus-Verlag ua, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-593-34728-8 , ISBN 3-423-04655-4 (also: (= dtv 4655). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423- 04655-4 ).
  • The Power of Tradition in the Age of Augustus. The Principate as a "binding link" between the Republic and Empire. In: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher (Eds.): Between Republic and Empire. Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate. 1st paperback printing. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1993, ISBN 0-520-08447-0 , pp. 71-122.
  • Between monarchy and republic. The People's Tribunate in the Early Roman Republic. In: Bilancio critico su Roma arcaica fra monarchia e repubblica. In memoria di Ferdinando Castagnoli (Roma, 3-4 giugno 1991) (= Atti dei convegni Lincei. 100, ISSN  0391-805X ). Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1993, pp. 9-127.
  • The history of the Imperium Romanum (Republic and Principate). In: Jochen Martin (ed.): The old Rome. History and culture of the Roman Empire. Bertelsmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-570-12178-X , pp. 44-78.
  • as editor: The Athenian Democracy in the 4th Century BC Chr. Completion or decline of a constitution? Files from a symposium 3. – 7. August 1992, Bellagio. Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06387-0 .
  • Legal developments and constitutional crisis in Athens and Rome. In: Ernst Günther Schmidt (Ed.): Greece and Rome. Comparative studies on development tendencies and high points of ancient history, art and literature. Universitäts-Verlag et al., Tbilissi et al. 1996, ISBN 5-511-00669-6 , pp. 131–151.
  • as editor with Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp : People and Constitution in pre-Hellenistic Greece. Contributions to the symposium in honor of Karl-Wilhelm Welwei in Bochum, 1. – 2. March 1996. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07088-5 .
  • Aristocracy and the Coming of Democracy. In: Ian Morris , Kurt A. Raaflaub (Eds.): Democracy 2500? Questions and challenges (= Archaeological Institute of America. Colloquia and Conference Papers. 2). Kendall / Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque IA 1998, ISBN 0-7872-4466-X , pp. 105-140.
  • Democracy and Megalomania: The Paradoxes of Athenian Democracy. In: Bernd Effe , Reinhold F. Glei (Hrsg.): Genie und Wahnsinn. Concepts of psychological “normality” and “abnormality” in antiquity (= Bochum Colloquium on Ancient Studies . Vol. 46). WVT - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-402-0 , pp. 83-95.
  • The Harpalos Affair. In: Leonhard Burckhardt , Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg (Ed.): Great trials in ancient Athens. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46613-3 , pp. 201-215.
  • as translator: Marcel Detienne: The Adonis Gardens. Spices and Fragrances in Greek Mythology. Translated from the French by Gabriele and Walter Eder. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-14475-9 .
  • Dormant Potentials: The Role of Tribunes and Ephors in Constitutional Crises. In: Norbert Ehrhardt , Linda-Marie Günther (Hrsg.): Resistance - Adaptation - Integration. The Greek world and Rome. Festschrift for Jürgen Deininger on his 65th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-07911-4 , pp. 49-60.
  • as editor with Johannes Renger : rulers chronologies of the ancient world. Names, dates, dynasties (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Vol. 1). Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2004, ISBN 3-476-01912-8 (In English: Chronologies of the Ancient World. Names, dates and dynasties. Translated and edited by Wouter FM Henkelman. Assistant editor Robert Chenault. Brill, Leiden et al. 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15320-2 ).
  • Augustus and the Power of Tradition. In: Karl Galinsky (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2005, ISBN 0-521-00393-8 , pp. 13-22.

Publications on tourism, monument preservation and tour guides (selection)

  • Antiquity and Tourism. In: Koldewey Society, Association for Building History Research: Report on the 40th conference for excavation science and building research. From May 20 to 24, 1998 in Vienna. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-3020-1 , pp. 50-58.
  • Planning of scientific study trips. In: Günther Haedrich, Claude Kaspar, Kristiane Klemm, Edgar Kreilkamp (eds.): Tourism Management. Tourism marketing and planning. 3rd, completely revised and significantly expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015185-5 , pp. 531-554.
  • History and tourism. In: Klaus Bergmann , Klaus Fröhlich, Annette Kuhn , Jörn Rüsen , Gerhard Schneider (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Geschichtsdidaktik. 5th, revised edition. Kallmeyer, Seelze-Velber 1997, ISBN 3-7800-4920-1 , pp. 718-727.
  • Draft of a monument preservation and touristic overall concept for the city ruins of Miletus. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1995, pp. 275-282.
  • Scientific tour guide and cultural tourism. In: Christoph Becker, Albrecht Steinecke (ed.): Cultural tourism in Europe. Growth without limits? (= ETI studies. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 2128576-7 ). European Tourism Institute, Trier 1993, pp. 161-184.
  • The beginnings of tourism research in Germany. In: Tourism and Transport. Vol. 3, 1988, ISSN  0179-7425 , pp. 12-20.
  • Make the invisible visible. Considerations for the Reconstruction of Ancient Monuments. In: Universitas. Vol. 42, 1987, ISSN  0041-9079 , pp. 644-655.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Leppin: The legacy of antiquity. Munich 2010. p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterberg, Bohemian Forest
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2009
Place of death Berlin