Corrector

Corrector (from Latin corrigere "to improve") was the official title for the imperial governors who were previously sent to the provinces as legati Augusti pro praetore ad corrigendum statum in the Roman Empire and late antiquity since the end of the 3rd century . As a rule, they were of senatorial rank and exercised the imperium maius of the emperor , especially in the senatorial provinces , in order to promote and implement reforms in administration and constitution. In particular, they had the right, withdrawn from the senatorial provincial administrators, to order measures in the free communities, the civitates liberae ; they could also take the place of proconsul in the senate provinces.

tasks

A corrector was originally used by the emperor since the time of Trajan, for example in the case of gross grievances in a province, for example in the case of misconduct by the governor or when the post of governor was not filled. The corrector's powers almost reached those of a governor. From a military point of view, however, his power was limited, so in the event of incidents in the legions his own officials were called in.

Under Aurelian , Pomponius Bassus was appointed corrector totius Italiae (governor of all Italy) as a special official. Only in the course of the Diocletian reforms was the whole of Italy divided into fixed administrative districts, which differed from the provinces only in that the title corrector, which was already known in Italy, was partially retained for their governors . But they received the full power of the other provincial governors, so that they exercised civil and criminal justice and took over the entire administration.

The Roman province of Augustamnica in Egypt also had a corrector as governor instead of a praeses .

literature

Anton von Premerstein : Corrector . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Sp. 1646-1656.
Christian Gizewski : Corrector. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , column 201 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus-Peter Johne , Udo Hartmann , Thomas Gerhardt (ed.): The time of the soldiers emperors. Crisis and transformation of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD (235–284). De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 665. 812
↑ Werner Eck : The state organization of Italy in the high imperial era. De Gruyter, Berlin 1966. p. 2
↑ Klaus-Peter Johne, Udo Hartmann, Thomas Gerhardt (ed.): The time of the soldiers emperors. Crisis and transformation of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD (235–284). De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 668.
↑ Heinz Hübner : The Praefectus Aegypti from Diocletian until the end of Roman rule. Filser-Verlag, Munich-Pasing 1952. p. 12

[1] Klaus-Peter Johne , Udo Hartmann , Thomas Gerhardt (ed.): The time of the soldiers emperors. Crisis and transformation of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD (235–284). De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 665. 812

[2] Werner Eck : The state organization of Italy in the high imperial era. De Gruyter, Berlin 1966. p. 2

[3] Klaus-Peter Johne, Udo Hartmann, Thomas Gerhardt (ed.): The time of the soldiers emperors. Crisis and transformation of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD (235–284). De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 668.

[4] Heinz Hübner : The Praefectus Aegypti from Diocletian until the end of Roman rule. Filser-Verlag, Munich-Pasing 1952. p. 12