Erich Boehringer

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Erich Max Boehringer (born August 10, 1897 in Hamburg ; † April 3, 1971 there ) was a German classical archaeologist and numismatist .

life and work

Boehringer comes from a middle-class family; his father was a chemist and ran a chemical factory in Hamburg. He was the brother of the industrialist, private scholar and writer Robert Boehringer .

Boehringer grew up in Basel and after attending grammar school there, he volunteered for military service in 1914. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1915 because of distinction from the enemy. He was the model for Stefan George poem to a young leader in the First World War . George, whom Boehringer met in 1917, had a major influence on him. After graduating from high school in Lörrach in July 1919, Boehringer studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Greek in Freiburg i. Br. , Würzburg , Basel and Berlin . Influenced by Kurt Regling , he wrote his dissertation with Heinrich Bulle in Würzburg on the coins of Syracuse , which, with the use of the comparative die method, set the trend for ancient numismatics .

After receiving his doctorate in 1925, Boehringer worked for a year as an assistant at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome before receiving the DAI's travel grant in 1926/27 . From 1927–29 he worked again as an assistant at the DAI in Rome, from 1929–30 he took part in research in Sicily, and from 1930–31 he was employed as a research assistant at the Berlin Collection of Antiquities. Since receiving the travel grant, he took part in the excavations in Pergamon under the direction of Theodor Wiegand , whom he temporarily represented as excavation manager. The results of his work in Pergamon were the two volumes on the Temenos for the ruler's cult and the arsenals of Pergamon.

In 1932 Boehringer completed his habilitation in Greifswald , was from 1934 to 1938 representative of the professor of classical archeology in Greifswald, then associate professor and finally professor in 1942. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . During the Second World War he worked from March 1940 to April 1943 as a cultural attaché at the German embassy in Athens. The outcome of the war drove him out of Greifswald and he was responsible for evacuating the university.

Boehringer went to Göttingen , where in 1946 he was given a teaching position for “classical archeology, excavation, ancient iconography and numismatics”. In addition, from 1945-48 he was also the honorary managing director of the “Academic Aid Organization of the University of Göttingen” and founded the “Academic Burse Göttingen”. Nothing is known about its denazification .

In April 1954 Boehringer became President of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, and he played a key role in its reconstruction. He also taught as an honorary professor for classical archeology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1957 Boehringer resumed the excavations in Pergamon. In 1960 he retired early in order to be able to devote himself entirely to scientific work, especially the excavations in Pergamon.

He was also involved in the Baden-Württemberg FDP / DVP , for which he ran in vain for the German Bundestag in 1961. In 1956 he was proposed as Minister of Education for Lower Saxony, but ultimately did not accept the office.

His son is the classical archaeologist and numismatist Christof Boehringer .

Fonts (selection)

  • The coins of Syracuse. 2 volumes. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1929.
  • The Caesar of Acireale. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1933.
  • with Friedrich Krauss : The Temenos for the ruler's cult (= antiquities of Pergamon. Volume 9). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1937.
  • with Ákos von Szalay: The Hellenistic Arsenals (= Antiquities of Pergamon. Volume 10). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1937.
  • with Robert Boehringer: Homer. Portraits and evidence. Volume 1: Roundworks. Shepherd, Breslau 1939.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet minutes 1956 .
  2. ↑ Everything that has appeared. See Otmar Seemann : Cumulative addendum to war: MNE. 3rd, improved and increased edition. Walter Krieg, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-920566-38-6 , p. 30.

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personal data
SURNAME Boehringer, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehringer, Erich Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 1971
Place of death Hamburg