Bernhard Palme
Bernhard Palme (born July 19, 1961 in Vienna ) is an Austrian papyrologist and ancient historian and the first university professor for papyrology at the University of Vienna .
Life
In 1979 Bernhard Palme began studying ancient history and history as well as Egyptology and archeology at the University of Vienna. One of his electives was the papyrology offered by Hermann Harrauer , whose first graduate student he became. The graduation to Mag. Phil. took place in 1984, the doctorate to Dr. phil. 1989, also with Hermann Harrauer.
Since autumn 1983 he has been a member of the Commission for Ancient Legal History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (initially part-time, currently on a voluntary basis). Since 1986 he has been editor of the magazine Tyche , which is published by Viennese ancient historians and papyrologists.
From 1992 to 1993, Palme was a Humboldt fellow at the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University . He then received an APART scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he was the first humanities scholar to receive the Start Prize from the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) . This enabled him and his team, consisting of papyrologists from different countries, to begin with a systematic edition of unpublished holdings in the Vienna papyrus collection. Over 60,000 papyrus documents were viewed.
In 1998 he completed his habilitation in ancient history and papyrology. In the same year he received the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities . In 2004 he received the professorship for ancient history and papyrology at the University of Vienna. Palme is a member of the Committee of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues and currently head of the project “Edition of Greek Papyri from the Collection of the Austrian National Library ”. Since 2007 Palme has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 2008 Palme was elected a corresponding member and in 2012 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .
Since 1990 he has been teaching at the universities of Salzburg , Graz and Vienna (here since 1994).
Palme holds a two-semester introductory lecture in papyrology and offers a seminar at the University of Vienna. In the meantime, a diploma thesis or dissertation from the papyrology department is completed each year , making papyrology one of the most frequently chosen subjects at the Vienna Institute for Ancient History and is only surpassed by the subject of Roman history. Palme also offers introductory courses for history students in Vienna.
As a professor of papyrology, he is planning a doctoral college for papyrology in order to accelerate the existing international exchange even more and to support young researchers, Palme is working on the realization of a doctoral program in cooperation with other European centers of papyrology such as Oxford , Strasbourg , Heidelberg and Trier .
He also gives numerous lectures on ancient history, papyrology and Greek epigraphy at adult education institutions .
Research priorities
- “Wiener Editionsprojekt” (START project): Edition of unpublished papyrus documents from Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine and early Arab Egypt.
- Bilingual process protocols of late antiquity : annotated new edition of all papyrologically and epigraphically transmitted files from processes.
- The hierarchy of the late Roman army: Systematic presentation of the internal organization of the late Roman troop units, evaluating the literary, legal, papyrological and epigraphic sources.
- Checklist of Attic Inscriptions I: Decrees: Checklist and bibliography on the Athenian decrees after Euclidean
Fonts
- The archive of Johannes Apaitetes, phil. Dipl. Arb., Vienna 1984
- The office of απαιτητής in Egypt, phil. Diss., Vienna 1989 (printed 1990)
- Administration and military in late ancient Egypt, intellectual. Habil. Schr., Vienna 1998 (submitted 1997)
- (Ed.), Viennese papyri as a celebratory gift for the 60th birthday of Hermann Harrauer (P. Harrauer), Vienna 2001.
- Documents on administration and the military from late ancient Egypt. Vienna 2002. (Corpus Papyrorum Raineri XXIV). XXII + 224 pages, 20 plates. [printed version of the habilitation thesis]
numerous essays, reviews, and critically commented bibliographies
literature
- Michael Freund: mental flashes. Vienna 1997, pp. 48–50, ISBN 3-211-83047-2
- AJB Sirks : Answer to Bernhard Palme. In: Hans-Albert Rupprecht (Ed.): Symposion 2003. Lectures on Greek and Hellenistic legal history (Rauischholzhausen, September 30 - October 3, 2003). In: Files of the Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History. Volume 17, o. O. 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3686-2 , pp. 409-414
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Palme in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Bernhard Palme at the University of Vienna
First chair / professorship: Otto Hirschfeld (1876–1885) | Eugen Bormann (1885–1914) | Wilhelm Kubitschek (1916–1929) | Rudolf Egger (1929–1945) | Artur Betz (1946–1975) | Gerhard Dobesch (1976-2007) | Fritz Mitthof (since 2008)
Second chair / professorship: Emil Szanto (1901–1904) | Adolf Wilhelm (1905–1933) | Josef Keil (1936–1950) | Fritz Schachermeyr (1952–1963 / 70) | Ernst Kirsten (1970–1981) | Peter Siewert (1983-2005) | Thomas Corsten (since 2010)
Third chair / professorship: Adolf Bauer (1916–1919) | Ekkehard Weber (1980-2007) | Bernhard Palme (since 2004)
Other positions: Roman Stiglitz (1973–1987)
Professorship for Etruscology and Italian Antiquity: Luciana Aigner-Foresti (1994–2001) | Petra Amann (since 2013)
Josef Karabacek (1899–1904, director of the court library ) | Karl Wessely (1904–1922, curator “extra statum” ) | Theodor Seif (1923–1930, Oriental Department ) | Hans Gerstinger (1923–1936, until 1931 Greek department , then overall management ) | Walter Till (1936–1942 and 1948–1951) | Franz Unterkircher (1951–1956, official director, actually director of the manuscript collection ) | Herbert Hunger (1956–1962) | Helene Loebenstein (1962–1984) | Hermann Harrauer (1984-2005) | Cornelia Römer (2005–2009) | Bernhard Palme (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palme, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian papyrologist and ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |