Armin Stylow

Armin Udo Stylow (born August 17, 1941 ) is a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

Armin Udo Stylow received his doctorate in 1972 from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the subject of Libertas and Liberalitas. Investigations into the domestic political propaganda of the Romans . Until his retirement he was a scientific advisor for Latin epigraphy at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). Stylow is an internationally recognized expert on the Latin inscriptions of the Iberian Peninsula . He did particularly well for the collection and publication of these inscriptions as part of the new edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) and worked for this at the University of Alcalá . The approximately 23,000 known Latin inscriptions of Iberia have meanwhile also been made accessible on the basis of Stylow's work. In addition to Géza Alföldy , Marc Mayer Olivé and Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón , Stylow was the editor of these CIL volumes. In June 2009 he was honored with a commemorative publication at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba , to which well-known scholars from antiquity contributed not only from Spain and Germany. Stylow also worked as a translator of specialist literature and, for example, translated the Marcus Aurelius biography by Anthony R. Birley into German. He is a full member of the DAI.

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Stylow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Report on the handover of the Festschrift