Dieter Knibbe

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Dieter Knibbe (born July 22, 1934 in Siegen ; † June 27, 2015 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ancient historian and epigraphist .

Life

Dieter Knibbe grew up in Austria. He attended grammar school in Villach and from 1954 studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Vienna . In 1959, with a study of the embassies of the Roman Republic in the Hellenistic East, he became Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1960 he worked on behalf of the Austrian Archaeological Institute on the excavation in Ephesus , where he recorded the city's inscriptions and advised the excavation team on questions of ancient history. In 1978 the Turkish city of Selçuk made him an honorary citizen . From 1990 to 2000 he headed the research project of the processional street and the Damiansstoa in Ephesus. In 1994 he was acting head of the Austrian Archaeological Institute for a few months.

From 1979 on, Knibbe held lectures at the University of Vienna in addition to his excavation work. In 1982 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the inscriptions of the Prytaneion of Ephesus for Roman history, epigraphy and especially Greek epigraphy of the Roman Empire . In the same year he received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art .

In 1988 he received the title of Associate University Professor. Knibbe was also a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Anton Bammer and Robert Fleischer : Guide through the Archaeological Museum in Selc̜uk-Ephesus . Vienna 1974.
  • The state market. The inscriptions of the Prytaneion, the curetes and other religious texts . Vienna 1981 (= research in Ephesos vol. 9, 1, 1).
  • with Silke Thür: Via Sacra Ephesiaca . Volume 2, Vienna 1995.
  • Ephesus. History of an important ancient city and portrait of a modern large excavation in the 102nd year of the return of the beginning of Austrian research (1895–1997) . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1998.

literature

  • Traute Wohlers-Scharf: The Research History of Ephesus. Discoveries, digs and personalities . Vienna 1996, p. 177.
  • Stones and paths. Festschrift for Dieter Knibbe for his 65th birthday . Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-900305-29-3 .
  • Hans Taeuber : Dieter Knibbe, 1934–2015 , annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 84, 2015, pp. 9–10.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oeai.at ( Memento from June 30, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Knibbe, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient historian and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2015
Place of death Vienna