Christian Gizewski

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Christian Gizewski (born January 2, 1941 in Lengerich ; † December 22, 2019 ) was a German ancient historian .

Life

Christian Gizewski was born the son of a pastor who worked at psychiatric and neurological hospitals in Westphalia. In Ibbenbüren he attended the ancient language branch of the grammar school. He then studied law and, as minor subjects, classical philology , history, philosophy , sociology and psychology at the University of Münster and at the Free University of Berlin . This was followed by practical legal training and work as a lawyer in the university administration service.

Then Gizewski studied again, this time history as a major. In 1977 he did his doctorate with Werner Dahlheim and Hans Poser on the topic of category and method problems of a systems-theoretical approach in ancient history . 1985 followed the habilitation, again supervised by Dahlheim and Rolf Rilinger , Ernst Pitz and Dieter Simon , for the subject Ancient History with the work on the normativity and structure of the constitutional conditions in the later Roman Empire . Since then, Gizewski has taught as a non-civil servant university professor, initially as a private lecturer , since July 2000 as an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Berlin, and temporarily as a guest lecturer at the University of Potsdam . Gizewski also worked as a lawyer for a number of years.

In addition to the general history of antiquity and the history of its impact in post-ancient epochs up to the present, Gizewski mainly dealt with the history, structures and theories in ancient history, as well as with projects of scientifically founded non-university historical and political education for adults as well as with the commitment modern media, especially the internet, for such purposes. To this end, he was in charge of the complex project AGiW - Old History in the WWW, which he founded as the responsible publisher, with the ongoing development of its various branches and topics. He also appeared there as a lobbyist for the concerns of unemployed, highly qualified scientists and in other science-related political issues.

In the summer semester 2011, Gizewski placed a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf on the website Alte Geschichte on the WWW, which he designed as a university professor at the TU Berlin, as part of a course on Submission, Oppression, Displacement, Enslavement and Destruction of Peoples in the History of Ancient High Cultures . The file was removed or deleted immediately by the central administration of the TU Berlin, which was not responsible for this, without checking the legal basis and for mere intervention by the Bavarian Ministry of Finance . Thereupon Gizewski began a fundamental legal dispute over the freedom of science with his university.

Fonts

  • Problems of categories and methods of a systems-theoretical approach in ancient history, discussed using social systems, texts and intellectual currents of the second century AD (dissertation), Berlin 1977
  • On the normativity and structure of the constitutional relationships in the later Roman Empire (habilitation), Beck, Munich 1988 (Munich contributions to papyrus research and ancient legal history, issue 81) ISBN 3-406-32437-1

Internet publications

  • Old history on the WWW [AGiW]. Experimental WWW project for scientific teaching, publication, discussion and news in the field of ancient history . With numerous scientific publications and elaborated course scripts. Location: ZRZ of the TU Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On this - regardless of the context in terms of content and the copyright authorization for scientific commentary: Willi Winkler : Hitler uncensored . Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 14, 2013, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Gizewski, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengerich
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2019