Adolf Bauer (ancient historian)

Adolf Bauer (born March 5, 1855 in Prague , † January 13, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ancient historian .

Life

Adolf Bauer, who came from a farming family in Egerland , studied history at the University of Vienna , where he was particularly influenced by Max Büdinger . After graduating as Dr. phil. (1876) he deepened his studies at the universities of Bonn (with Arnold Dietrich Schaefer ) and Berlin and stayed as a private teacher for noble families in Cairo and Venice. In 1880 he qualified as a professor for ancient history at the University of Graz and was appointed associate professor in 1884. With his appointment as full professor (1891) he became the first professor of this subject at the university. To train his students, he founded the ancient history department of the historical seminar and set up a paleographic apparatus.

Adolf Bauer spent almost his entire career at the University of Graz despite several calls from German universities. In the years 1895/1896 and 1903/1904 he was dean of the philosophical faculty, in 1910/1911 rector of the university. He received rich recognition for his scientific achievements: he was appointed court counselor and a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . In 1916, Bauer accepted a position at the University of Vienna. However, he died a few years later. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

The Origin of Herodotic History: A Critical Investigation . Vienna 1878 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Themistocles. Studies and contributions to Greek historiography and source studies . Merseburg 1881
The Cyrus legend and related things . In: Meeting reports of the philological-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . Volume 100 (1882), pp. 495-579
Plutarch's Themistocles for source-critical exercises . Leipzig 1884
with Georg Busolt and Iwan von Müller : The Greek State, War and Private Antiquities . Nördlingen 1887 ( Handbook of Classical Studies 4.1). Second edition, Munich 1893
The battle of Issus. In: Alfred Hölder (Ed.): Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna, Vol. 2. First booklet with 118 text figures, Vienna 1899, pp. 105–128.
Ancient history textbook for the upper grades of grammar schools . Vienna 1903 (numerous reprints)
with Josef Strzygowski: An Alexandrian World Chronicle . Text and miniatures from a Greek papyrus from the W. Goleniščev collection . Vienna 1905
Origin and continuation of the Christian world chronicle . Graz 1910
From Greek to Christianity . Leipzig 1910. Second edition, published by Wilhelm Bauer, Leipzig 1923
From Judaism to Christianity . Leipzig 1917

literature

Fritz Schachermeyr : Bauer, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 635 f. ( Digitized version ).}
Bauer, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 54.
Hubert Partisch: Austrians from Sudeten German tribe . 9th Edition (1967), p. 14

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Grave site Adolf Bauer , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 66, Row 10, No. 64.

personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1919
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Grave site Adolf Bauer , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 66, Row 10, No. 64.