Emilio Gabba

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Emilio Gabba (born March 31, 1927 in Pavia ; died August 12, 2013 ) was an Italian ancient historian .

Emilio Gabba came from a long-established family from Pavia and was a descendant of the Paveser mathematician Felice Casorati . Gabba studied with Plinio Fraccaro at the University of Pavia , where he received his doctorate in 1948. In 1949/50 he received a scholarship from the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples. From 1955 to 1958 he was an assistant for Greek and Roman history at the university in his hometown. From 1958 to 1974 he was a professor at the University of Pisa . From 1974 Gabba taught as a professor of Roman history until his retirement in 1996 at the University of Pavia.

As a professor in Pisa, together with Arnaldo Momigliano, he founded a fundamental renewal of the subject of ancient history, both in terms of content and methodology, by thoroughly studying the history of ancient historiography, i.e. H. the way ancient man himself thought of his culture and society. His main focus was on Greek historians who devoted their works to depicting the expansion of Rome, such as Polybius , Dionysius and Appian , whose civil wars he edited together with the Graecist Domenico Magnino in Italian translation. He then developed a picture of the ups and downs of the Roman Republic with a deep understanding of the military, social and economic aspects on the one hand and a keen sense for political and legal institutions of the Roman Republic on the other. Gabba recognized the essential foundations of further Roman history in the institutional and territorial legacies of the Roman municipalities . His list of publications includes more than 800 titles.

Gabba was the editor of the Athenaeum magazine from 1990 . Due to his extensive knowledge of Italian and European culture, he was entrusted with the management of the Rivista Storica Italiana (1995-2005). He was visiting professor in Oxford , Philadelphia and Berkeley and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1973, 1985-1986).

The universities of Dijon , Strasbourg and Mainz awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1988 corresponding member, full member from 1992), from 1993 of Academia Europaea , from 1988 corresponding member of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere , the British Academy , the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in Paris and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Washington. Gabba was also chairman of the Società Pavese di Storia Patria and the Center for the History of the University of Pavia.

Fonts

  • Roma arcaica. Storia e storiografia. Rome 2000, ISBN 88-87114-68-4 .
  • Italia romana. Como 1994.
  • Aspetti culturali dell'imperialismo romano. Florence 1993, ISBN 88-383-1393-8 .
  • Dionysius and the history of archaic Rome. Berkeley et al. a. 1991, ISBN 0-520-07302-9 .
  • Del buon uso della ricchezza. Saggi di storia economica e sociale del mondo antico. Milan 1988, ISBN 88-7802-043-5 .
  • Republican Rome, the army and the allies. Oxford 1976, ISBN 0-631-17150-9 .

literature

  • Anselmo Baroni (Ed.): Emilio Gabba. Bibliografia 1949–1995. New Press, Como 1996.
  • Francesco De Nicola: Le lettere di Arnaldo Momigliano a Emilio Gabba. Ricostruzione di un rapporto culturale (= Biblioteca di Athenaeum. Vol. 39). New Press, Como 1998.
  • Rotary Club Pavia: Premio Internazionale Gerolamo Cardano 2008. Pavia 2008 online (PDF; 168 kB) .
  • Leonhard Schumacher (Ed.): Honorary doctorate Emilio Gabba on May 19, 1998 by the Department of History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Speeches of the academic celebration. Institute for Ancient History, Mainz 1998.
  • Donatella Zoroddu (Ed.): Bibliografia di Emilio Gabba, 1995-2006. New Press, Como 2007.
  • Lucio Troiani: Emilio Gabba (1927-2013). In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Année Vol. 39 (2013), pp. 11-14 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Gabba, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2013