Erich Pernice

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Erich Anton Pernice (born December 19, 1864 in Greifswald , † August 1, 1945 in Freest ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Erich Pernice was the son of the Greifswald gynecologist Hugo Pernice and grandson of the lawyer Ludwig Pernice . One of his ancestors was the wine merchant Marchese Pernice de Penta di Casinca, Conte di Castellare, who immigrated to Germany from Ala (Trentino) around 1735 . Pernice was also known as a wine expert in later life.

He passed his Abitur in Greifswald and began studying law , classical philology and archeology at the University of Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In Bonn, under the influence of academic teachers such as Hermann Usener , Franz Bücheler , Heinrich Nissen and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, he finally switched to archeology. However, he saw his friend Franz Winter as his actual teacher . In 1888 he received his doctorate in Bonn with the thesis Galeni de ponderibus et mensuris testimonia and in the same year he passed the state examination for higher education. A year later, a study trip took him to Rome , Pompeii and other areas on the Italian mainland and Sicily for the first time . The travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) was awarded to him for 1890/91 and 1891/92. During this time he took part in the excavation on Kerameikos in Athens , led by Alfred Brueckner . From 1892 Pernice was back in Germany. The habilitation took place in 1894 at the University of Greifswald , the subject of the habilitation thesis was Greek weights.

In 1895 Pernice went to the Antiquarium of the Berlin museums as an unskilled worker . A year later he completed his habilitation in Berlin and became a private lecturer at the university . In 1897 he became assistant director at the Berlin museums. In 1903 Pernice left Berlin and followed a call to the extraordinary chair for Classical Archeology in Greifswald. In 1906 he became a full professor. He turned down offers to the University of Strasbourg and the University of Breslau . For four months each in 1908 and 1909 he took part in the excavations in Miletus led by Theodor Wiegand . There he was responsible for the excavations at the Temple of Athena, where he unearthed evidence of the archaic city. From 1912 Pernice devoted himself extensively to research on Pompeii, which was interrupted by the First World War and could not be resumed until 1925. In 1934 he retired and initially lived in Greifswald, later in a small fisherman's cottage near Wolgast until his death . From 1940 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The main merit of Pernice was the Pompeii project initiated in 1912, which the DAI continues to this day. Pernice himself contributed several works to this company. He also made an outstanding contribution to the publication of finds from the Berlin Antiquarium. He wrote articles for several major projects such as Friedrich Lübker's Reallexikon des classical antiquity (1914) or Georg Lehnert's Illustrated History of Applied Arts (1907/08). For Alfred Gerckes and Eduard Nordens Introduction to Classical Antiquity , he wrote the section on Greek and Roman private life . In addition, he researched ancient metrology , especially ancient weights.

Fonts

  • German excavations in the countries of classical antiquity . Moninger, Greifswald 1922 (German collection, vol. 1).
  • Pompeii . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1926.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Pernice obituary in the 1946 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).

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predecessor Office successor
Paul Römer Rector of the University of Greifswald in
1918 		Friedrich Pels Leusden
personal data
SURNAME Pernice, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pernice, Erich Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1945
Place of death Freest