Detlef Lotze

Detlef Lotze (born November 14, 1930 in Halle / Saale ; † September 20, 2018 in Jena ) was a German ancient historian .

Detlef Lotze passed his Abitur in 1949 and then studied Classical Philology and History until 1953 . He passed the faculty examination in 1953 for the subjects Greek and Latin, in 1954 he became a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU). He was there in December 1956 with the work Μεταξυ ελευθερων και δουλων. Studies on the legal status of unfree rural populations in Greece up to the 4th century BC Chr. , PhD. His reviewers were Friedrich Zucker and Helmut Berve . Lotze then became a senior scientific assistant. The habilitation took place in June 1962 on the subject of Lysander and the Peloponnesian War . From September 1963 he worked as a lecturer in ancient history at the FSU. After the fall of the Wall , Lotze was professor of ancient history at the Friedrich Schiller University from 1990 until his retirement in 1996. From 1991 to 1993 Lotze was also Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. He was a full member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt (1993) and the German Archaeological Institute .

Lotzes research focus was the history of classical Greece , especially in the area of social and constitutional history . Lotze also worked as a translator for ancient Greek historians ( Anabasis of Xenophon ). He was married and the father of two daughters.

Fonts

• Lysander and the Peloponnesian War (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 57, No. 1, ISSN  0080-5297 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
• Greek history. From the beginnings to Hellenism (= Beck'sche series. 2014). CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39500-7 .
• Citizens and unfree people in pre-Hellenistic Greece. Selected articles (= Classical Studies Colloquium. 2). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07673-5 .

literature

• Detlef Lotze: The old history in Jena from 1945 to 1989. In: Isolde Stark (Hrsg.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old history in the GDR. Contributions to the conference from November 21 to 23, 2002 in Halle / Saale. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08457-6 , pp. 108-116.
• Detlef Lotze: The subject of ancient history in the Jena Association of Classical Studies from 1945 to 1989. In: Uwe Hoßfeld , Tobias Kaiser, Heinz Mestrup (ed.): University in Socialism. Studies on the history of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990). Volume 2. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 , pp. 1749–1766.
• Lothar Mertens : The lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 401.

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlef Lotze in the catalog of the German National Library