Erich Swoboda
Erich Swoboda (born August 30, 1896 in Vienna , † November 22, 1964 in Graz ) was an Austrian ancient historian and Roman provincial archaeologist .
Life
Erich Swoboda came from a family of officers. At first he took up the career of an officer himself and also worked as a mail aviator, sports teacher and bank clerk. In 1926 he began studying archeology and ancient history at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1931 with the dissertation Octavian and Illyricum . He then worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna, and in 1938 he moved to the University of Vienna as an assistant. There he completed his habilitation in 1939 with the work of research on the Upper Moesian Limes for ancient history and was appointed associate professor in the same year. In 1946 he moved to the University of Graz as an associate professor , where he replaced Fritz Schachermeyr , who had been removed from office because of his involvement in the Nazi system, and from 1950 also as a full professor. He was also the head of the Institute for the History of Antiquity and Antiquity . He stayed at the university until his death, he was succeeded by Viktor Burr as holder of the chair. From 1951 to 1953 he was dean, from 1960/61 Swoboda was rector of the university. Ingomar Weiler is one of his students .
Swoboda dealt primarily with the history and culture as well as the material legacies of the Romans in the area of today's Austria. In 1935 he excavated the bathing complex in Enns , in 1936 the Valetudinarium and the early Christian church of Maria Anger . In 1936 and 1937 he also excavated the main building of the villa rustica near Vorchdorf , in 1937 the fort wall and the remains of the wall of Sankt Agatha in Haibach ob der Donau . Publicly, he devoted himself to Aguntum and Carnuntum , where he also carried out important excavations, but also to the social ideas of antiquity.
Swoboda received numerous honors. He received the Cross of Honor for Art and Science 1st Class and the Honor Plaque of the Province of Lower Austria . He was a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences in Zagreb , the Slovak Academy of Sciences , the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the German Academy of Sciences , a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the German Limes Commission . In 1966 the commemorative publication Corolla memoriae Erich Swoboda dedicata was published in his memory .
He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .
literature
- Artur Betz : List of publications by Erich Swoboda. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 115, 1965, 347-356.
- Eric Birley : Erich Swoboda. In: Gnomon 38, 1966, 843-844.
- Corolla memoriae Erich Swoboda dedicata (= Roman research in Lower Austria 5). Böhlau, Graz 1966 (with portrait and list of publications).
Web links
- Biography at the Archaeological Information System for Upper Austria
- Information about the estate
- Estates in Austria - Personal Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ H.-J. Drexhage, German-language dissertations on ancient history 1844-1978 (Wiesbaden 1980) No. 1861 on p. 83.
Ancient history and archeology: Adolf Bauer (1884–1916) | Rudolf von Scala (1917–1919) | Friedrich Oertel (1922–1929) | Wilhelm Enßlin (1930–1936) | Franz Schehl (1936–1938) | Fritz Schachermeyr (1941–1945) | Erich Swoboda (1947–1964) | Viktor Burr (1968–1973) | Gerhard Dobesch (1973–1975) | Ingomar Weiler (1976-2002) | Wolfgang Spickermann (since 2013). Roman antiquity: Wilhelm Kubitschek (1896–1897) | Otto Cuntz (1898–1932) | Balduin Saria (1942-1945).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Swoboda, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ancient historian and Roman provincial archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1964 |
| Place of death | Graz |