Adolf Lippold

Adolf Lippold (born October 23, 1926 in Erlangen ; † June 11, 2005 in Regensburg ) was a German ancient historian .

Adolf Lippold, son of Georg Lippold , received his doctorate in 1952 from the University of Erlangen under Johannes Straub . In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn . From 1968 until his retirement in 1994 Lippold taught at the University of Regensburg as a professor of ancient history .

Lippold was the editor of Regensburg Historical Research . Lippold, who specialized in the history of late Roman antiquity , also wrote various articles for large projects such as Pauly's Realencyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquity (RE), the Little Pauly and the Reallexikon für Antiquity and Christianity . Lippold's monograph on Theodosius I and the corresponding article in the RE are still regarded as important studies, as is his work on the Historia Augusta , although his theses on the dating of this source did not prevail.

Fonts (selection)

Rome and the barbarians in the judgment of Orosius . Dissertation, University of Erlangen 1952.
Consules. Studies on the history of the Roman consulates from 264 to 201 BC Chr. Habelt, Bonn 1963.
Theodosius the great and his time. 1st edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1968; 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-06009-9 (= Beck's black series. Volume 209).
The Historia Augusta. A collection of Roman emperors' biographies from the time of Constantine. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07272-1 .

Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen : Lippold, Adolf. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Col. 743 f.