Emil Kießling

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Emil Jakob Hans Kießling (born August 16, 1896 in London , † September 21, 1985 in Wiesbaden ) was a German papyrologist .

After graduating from high school on August 8, 1914 at the Humanist New High School in Darmstadt , he took part in the First World War from August 1914 to August 1919 . In 1916 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in Munich . From 1917 he studied at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg , Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin majoring in law , alongside legal papyrology, history, philosophy, religious studies and ancient languages. He passed his first state examination in law on January 14, 1921, the second on December 20, 1922. From 1921 to 1924 he was a research assistant at the law faculty in Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate on August 4, 1924 .

Since his time in Heidelberg, he worked on the two large projects started by his teacher Friedrich Preisigke , a dictionary of Greek papyrus documents and a collective book of Greek documents from Egypt , and after his death in 1924 he continued them as a life's work. At first he worked at the law faculty in Heidelberg, then at the papyrus collection of the State Museums in Berlin , where he was also editor of the journal Research and Progress on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . From October 1, 1933, he was a research assistant at the Prussian State Library in Berlin. At the end of the war he worked from May 1944 to February 1945 at the branch of the Prussian State Library in Hirschberg , and from mid-February 1945 to August 1945 at the alternative branch of the Frankfurt University Library in Mitwitz .

On July 27, 1943, Kießling received his habilitation at the University of Munich . Since the winter semester 1945/46 he had a teaching position for Roman legal history at the Philipps University of Marburg , since 1946 he had the Venia legendi for Roman law and legal papyrology there. Here he founded the Institute for Papyrus Research and Ancient Legal History . On October 23, 1951, he was appointed associate professor , and on September 1, 1961, full professor. His retirement took place in the winter semester 1967/68.

literature

  • Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis: the academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg . Vol. 2: From 1911 to 1971, arr. v. Inge Auerbach, Marburg 1979, pp. 111-112.
  • Hans-Albert Ruprecht: Emil Kießling (1896–1985) . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department , Volume 104 (1987), pp. 904-907.
  • Wolfgang Habermann: The German delegation at the International Papyrologists 'Congress in Oxford in 1937 and the papyrologists' congress planned for 1939 in Vienna , in: Archive for Papyrus Research and Related Areas 47, 2001, pp. 102–171.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - becoming and fate. Munich 1967, p. 179.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kießling, Emil Jakob Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papyrologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1985
Place of death Wiesbaden