Alexander Fuks

Alexander Fuks (born May 30, 1917 in Breslau ; † November 29, 1978 ) was an Israeli ancient historian and papyrologist.

Life

Fuks completed his school education in Wroclaw. He emigrated to Palestine and came to Jerusalem in 1935 , where he studied at the Hebrew University and obtained a Ph.D. in 1946. received. In 1962 he became professor for classical studies . The focus of his work was Athenian history. Together with Avigdor Tcherikover he worked on the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum . After Tcherikover died in 1958 after the first volume was published, Menachem Stern took its place. This monumental work includes papyri and ostraka from Egypt in the period between Alexander the Great and the Arab conquest of the country.

Publications (selection)

• The Ancestral Constitution: Four Studies in Athenian Party Politics at the End of the Fifth Century. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
• The Athenian Commonwealth. 1957 [Hebrew].
• (Mithrsg.) Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum . 3 volumes. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press, 1957-1964.
• Social Conflict in Ancient Greece. Jerusalem: Magnes Press et al. a., 1984, ISBN 965-223-466-4 .

literature

• Moshe Amit: Alexander Fuks (1917–1978). In: Aegyptus 59 (1979), pp. 268-270.
• Deborah Levine Gera: Bibliography of the Writings of Alexander Fuks. In: Scripta Classica Israelica 5 (1979-1980), pp. 2-7.