Behrendt Pick

Behrendt Pick (born December 21, 1861 in Posen , † May 4, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German numismatist .

Behrendt Pick attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium his hometown and studied from 1880 at the University of Berlin , where he in 1884 with the work De senatus consultis Romanorum Dr. phil. received his doctorate . On the advice of his doctoral supervisor Theodor Mommsen , he turned primarily to numismatics. For several years he worked as a librarian at the Royal Library . In 1888 he went to the University of Zurich , where he completed his habilitation in 1889 and was appointed associate professor for Roman antiquities, history and numismatics in 1891. In 1893 he moved to the ducal library in Gotha , where he was entrusted with the management of the coin cabinet (from 1899 with the title "director"). From March 6, 1896, he also taught ancient numismatics as an associate professor at the University of Jena . From 1903 to 1905 he organized and cataloged the “Academic Coin Cabinet of the University of Jena”. In 1911 the University of Jena appointed him honorary professor; In 1931, Pick stopped teaching.

In 1934 Pick was retired because of his "Mosaic Faith". He moved to Berlin, where he committed suicide in 1940.

For his services to numismatics, Pick received the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1935 .

Fonts (selection)

• De senatus consultis Romanorum. Pars prior. Berlin 1884, (dissertation).
• The ancient coins of Northern Greece . Volume 1: The ancient coins of Dacien and Moesien.
  • Half volume 1. Reimer, Berlin 1898, ( digitized version ).
  • with Kurt Regling : Half volume 2, section 1: The coins of Odessos and Tomis. Reimer, Berlin 1910.
• The coinage in ancient studies. A presentation. Perthes, Stuttgart et al. 1922.
• Essays on numismatics and archeology. Frommann, Jena 1931, (pp. VII – XII: List of publications).

literature

• Philipp Lederer : Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. Behrendt Pick 1861–1940. In: Swiss Numismatic Review. Vol. 28, 1941, pp. 87-89 .
• Wolfgang Steguweit , Ute Werneburg: The Roman coins of the Münzkabinett Gotha. In memory of Behrendt Pick (December 21, 1861 - May 4, 1940). City museums, Gotha 1980.
• Traditions. Fractions. Changes. The University of Jena 1850–1995. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20248-4 , pp. 343, 431.

Web links

• Literature by and about Behrendt Pick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Behrendt Pick's courses at the University of Zurich (winter semester 1889 to summer semester 1893)