Eberhard Erxleben

Eberhard Erxleben (born August 4, 1925 in Eberswalde , † March 24, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German epigraphist .

Eberhard Erxleben studied ancient history and epigraphy. Influenced by Günther Klaffenbach , Erxleben began to be enthusiastic about epigraphy. From 1951 to 1964 Erxleben was a research assistant at the Münzkabinett of the State Museums in Berlin. In 1964 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the thesis The Coin Law of the Delisch-Attic League . From 1964 he worked with Reinhard Koerner on the Inscriptiones Graecae . In 1972, Erxleben succeeded Günther Klaffenbach as head of the Inscriptiones Graecae at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , making him the fifth director of the Greek inscription company founded in 1815 at the Berlin Academy. Erxleben wrote only a few epigraphic and economic-historical essays. His main activity was the monumental corpus of pre-eclipse inscriptions of Attica , which was created in 1962 by David Lewis and with the help of Lilian Jeffery in more than thirty years of work and revised and published by Erxleben. In August 1990 he retired.

Works

• The coinage law of the Delisch-Attic League. Berlin 1962.
• Inscriptiones Graecae
  • Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno anteriores. Volume 3: Indices . Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-11-010362-1 . (in cooperation with David Lewis, Klaus Hallof)

literature

• Klaus Hallof : Eberhard Erxleben † . In: Gnomon Vol. 82 (2010), pp. 767f.