Egon Braun

Egon Braun (born September 10, 1906 in Trieste , † September 14, 1993 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian of philosophy and classical archaeologist .

Egon Braun grew up in Trieste and Carniola . From 1925 he studied classical philology , comparative linguistics and archeology at the University of Vienna . After receiving his doctorate , he worked from September 1, 1929 as a provisional unskilled worker at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), to which he remained associated until the end of his life. In 1932 he moved to the archive, where he was promoted to senior state archivist. He later worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Vienna.

Braun's research was devoted to the politics of Aristotle and the excavations of the OeAI. He edited the annual books of the ÖAI (from 1929), the museum and excavation guides of the ÖAI (from 1935), the excavation reports of Salona (from 1939) and Ephesus (from 1951), the individual publications of the ÖAI (from 1951) and the contributions to Roman soil research in Austria (from 1955).

Fonts (selection)

• Quatenus in sermone Sallustiano poetica lectaque dictio reperiatur . Vienna 1929
• The criticism of the Lacedaemonian constitution in the Politika of Aristotle . Klagenfurt 1956 ( Kärntner Museumschriften 12)
• Aristotle on civic and human virtue: on Politica III, 4 and 5 . Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1961
• The third book of Aristotelian 'Politics': Interpretation . Vienna / Graz 1965

literature

• Dieter Knibbe : In piam memoriam Egon Braun . In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna . Vol. 63 (1994), pp. 1-4
• 100 years of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 1898–1998 . Vienna 1998, pp. 128–129 (with portrait)

Web links

• Literature by Egon Braun in the catalog of the German National Library