Ernst Badian

Ernst Badian (born August 8, 1925 in Vienna , † February 1, 2011 in Boston ) was an Austrian-American ancient historian .

Ernst Badian's family emigrated from Austria to New Zealand in 1938. He studied in Christchurch and Oxford , England with Ronald Syme . From 1954 to 1964 was a lecturer at the University of Durham . In Oxford he received his doctorate in 1956 ( D. phil. ), In Wellington in 1962 a second time (Litt. D.). He then held various professorships in England and the USA. Badian taught from 1965 to 1969 as a professor of ancient history at the University of Leeds . From 1969 to 1971 he was Professor of History and Classical Antiquity at the University at Buffalo . From 1971 until his retirement in 1998 he taught as a professor at Harvard , and since 1982 as John Moors Cabot Professor of History . Badian is the founder and was editor of the American Journal of Ancient History through 2001 . He was a fellow of the British Academy (since 1965), a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1974) and a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences . In 1999 he received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art .

Badian has dealt intensively with Alexander the Great , judging the Macedonians extremely negatively, not least because of the impact of the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s. This interpretation is very influential to the present day, but it is also controversial.

Fonts

• Foreign Clientelae 264-70 BC Clarendon Press, Oxford 1958. Corrected reprint 1972.
• Studies in Greek and Roman History. Blackwell, Oxford 1964.
• Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic. University of South Africa, Pretoria 1967. 2nd edition Blackwell, Oxford and Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1968.
  German translation: Roman imperialism in the late republic. Teubner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-519-07400-1 .
• Lucius Sulla. The deadly reformer (= The Todd Memorial Lectures. Vol. 7). Sydney University Press, Sydney 1970, ISBN 0-424-06090-6 .
• Titus Quinctius Flamininus. Philhellenism and Realpolitik. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati 1970 (part of the Lectures in Memory of Louise Taft Semple series ).
• Publicans and Sinners. Private Enterprise in the Service of the Roman Republic. Blackwell, Oxford and Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1972. New edition Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1983, ISBN 0-8014-9241-6 .
  German translation: Tax collectors and sinners. Entrepreneur in the service of the Roman Republic. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-13143-6 .
• From Plataea to Potidaea. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1993, ISBN 0-8018-4431-2 .
• Collected Papers on Alexander the Great. Routledge, London / New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-37828-4 .

literature

• Martina Pesditschek: Badian, Ernst. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , column 44 f.
• Uwe Walter : Geniuses? Not creditworthy. The ancient historian Ernst Badian has died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 10, 2011, p. 31.

Web links

• Entry on Ernst Badian in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Literature by and about Ernst Badian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in the Harvard Gazette

Remarks

1. ↑ " reign of terror "; see. on this, Badian's important essay Harpalus. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 81, 1961, pp. 16-43.
2. ↑ See the various papers by AB Bosworth and Ian Worthington .