Anton von Premerstein

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Anton Ritter von Premerstein (born April 6, 1869 in Laibach ; †  February 6, 1935 in Marburg ) was an Austrian ancient historian , epigraphist and papyrologist .

Life

Anton von Premerstein came from a family that can be found in the Wippachtal in the Krain region up to the 11th century. The son of an administrative officer attended high school in Ljubljana and completed both his studies in classical studies and law with a doctorate (1893 sub auspiciis imperatoris and 1897). From 1892 to 1894 he did military service. In 1895 he got a job at the court library . In 1899 he was able to complete his habilitation at the University of Vienna . In 1906 he was appointed second secretary of the Athens branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and in 1909 its director. In 1912 he took over the chair of ancient history at the University of Prague . The First World War interrupted his scientific career. He initially worked for the Austrian Red Cross and in 1916 became a consultant for the welfare of prisoners of war at the Austrian legation in Bern. In 1916 he accepted a position at the University of Marburg , where he worked until his death. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Premerstein presented numerous papers on the history of the Roman Danube provinces. His research on the so-called report of Augustus' deeds is particularly significant. Premerstein was able to assign the largest, initially not yet classified, inscribed fragment of the finds in Antioch in Pisidia by William Mitchell Ramsay from the years 1914 and 1924 to the 34th chapter of the deed report. In place of Theodor Mommsen's text reconstruction hypothesis [... praestiti omnibus dignitate ...] , Premerstein put the formula [a] uctoritate [omnibus praestiti] . With the term auctoritas a better understanding of the Augustan principle could be achieved.

In his posthumously published main work Vom Wesen und Werden des Principat, his auctoritas section linked to the Antiochenum investigation. In addition, it dealt with issues related to the work of Friedrich Münzer and Matthias Gelzer , which primarily dealt with the prosopographical structures and the social foundations, especially of the Roman nobility . The depiction was published from the estate by his student Hans Volkmann . Premerstein was a full member of the Austrian and German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding member of the Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna.

Fonts

Monographs

  • On the becoming and essence of the principate. New York 1964.
  • The consular assassination attempt on Hadrian in AD 118. Aalen 1963.
  • The five newly found edicts of Augustus of Cyrene. Weimar 1928.
  • On the so-called Alexandrian acts of martyrdom. Leipzig 1923.

Editorships

  • together with William Mitchell Ramsay : Monumentum Antiochenum: The newly found record of the "Res gestae divi Augusti" in the Pisidic Antioch. Aalen 1963.

literature

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Premerstein, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Premerstein, Anton Ritter von; Premerstein, Anton Maria Amand from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1935
Place of death Marburg