Edmund Groag

Edmund Groag (born February 2, 1873 in Prerau / Moravia, † August 19, 1945 in Vienna-Mauer ) was an Austrian ancient historian and librarian.

Life

The son of a railway engineer studied after attending high school in Vienna at the local University and received his doctorate 1894th From 1901 until his retirement he worked at the Vienna National Library , most recently as a department head and senior state librarian. In addition, Groag remained scientifically active as an ancient historian and completed his habilitation in 1918. From 1925 he was associate professor of Roman history at the University of Vienna. In 1933 the German Archaeological Institute elected him a full member. After the National Socialists came to power, Groag, who came from a Jewish family but converted to Catholicism in 1901, was forced into retirement in 1938. He survived the war and the persecution of the Jews, hidden in Vienna.

Groag dealt primarily with prosopography in his work on Roman history . Together with Arthur Stein he was entrusted by the Prussian Academy of Sciences with the revision of the Prosopographia Imperii Romani . The first two volumes appeared in 1933 and 1936. In 1939, Groag and Stein had to give up the official editorship of the work, but continued to work on the third volume, which appeared on the title page in 1943 without any attribution. In addition, Groag also wrote numerous prosopographical articles for the Realencyclopedia of classical antiquity .

Fonts

with Heinrich Montzka: History of antiquity up to the foundation of the Roman Empire. Vienna 1914.
Hannibal as a politician. Seidel, Vienna 1929
with Arthur Stein: Prosopographia Imperii Romani. 2nd Edition. Volume 1, de Gruyter, Berlin 1933. Volume 2, ibid. 1936. Volume 3, ibid. 1943.
The Roman Imperial officials from Achaia to Diocletian. Hölder, Vienna 1939.
The imperial officials of Achaia in late Roman times. Budapest 1946.

literature

Who is who. Lexicon of Austrian contemporaries. Vienna 1937.
Walter Grab: Jews in German Science. Nateev Pr. And Publ. Enterprises, Tel-Aviv 1986. Proceedings of an international symposium of the same name at Tel-Aviv University, Institute for Dt. History, April 1985. Directed by Walter Grab. Supplement 10 of the yearbook of the Institute for German History at the University of Israel.

Web links

Wikisource: Edmund Groag - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Edmund Groag in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

↑ Anna Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 resigned from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914 . Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 209 ( excerpt from Google Books ).
↑ Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic" . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 , p. 192.
↑ ^a ^b Stefan Rebenich : Between adaptation and resistance? The Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1933 to 1945 . In: Beat Näf (Hrsg.): Antiquity and Classical Studies in the Time of National Socialism and Fascism . Ed. Cicero, Mandelbachtal / Cambridge 2001, ISBN 3-934285-45-7 , pp. 219-220 ( PDF ).

personal data
SURNAME	Groag, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ancient historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prerau
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1945
Place of death	Wall (vienna)

[1] Anna Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 resigned from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914 . Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 209 ( excerpt from Google Books ).

[2] Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic" . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 , p. 192.

[rebenich-3] Stefan Rebenich : Between adaptation and resistance? The Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1933 to 1945 . In: Beat Näf (Hrsg.): Antiquity and Classical Studies in the Time of National Socialism and Fascism . Ed. Cicero, Mandelbachtal / Cambridge 2001, ISBN 3-934285-45-7 , pp. 219-220 ( PDF ).