Ernst Kornemann

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Ernst Kornemann (1889)

Ernst Kornemann (born October 11, 1868 in Rosenthal (Hesse), † December 4, 1946 in Munich ) was a German ancient historian.

Life

The son of a landowner from Rosenthal (Hesse) studied history , classical philology and geography at the University of Gießen from 1887/88 onwards . In the three emperor year he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Giessen . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1889 , where his teachers included Theodor Mommsen , Otto Hirschfeld , Hermann Diels and Johannes Vahlen . He was particularly impressed by the already retired Mommsen, whose private college Kornemann was allowed to visit. In 1891 he was at Hirschfeld with a study of the Roman citizens in the provinces ( De Romanis civibus in provinciis imperil consistentibus ) for Dr. phil. PhD. He first worked as a high school teacher in Gießen and completed his habilitation in 1898 on the Celtic and Germanic areas of the Roman Empire. In the following years he taught at the University of Giessen as a private lecturer .

In 1902 Kornemann went to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as an associate professor , where he researched and taught for a total of sixteen years. From 1907 he was a full professor at the chair for ancient history there. In 1918 he followed the call of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University to its chair for ancient history as the successor to Walter Otto . In 1924 he resigned from his corps . In 1926/27 he was rector of the university. In 1930 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a foreign member, and in 1933 the German Archaeological Institute elected him a full member. In 1936 he retired in Breslau . In retirement, he moved to Munich, where the previous professor, Helmut Berve , was dismissed after the end of the Second World War . In the summer semester of 1946, Kornemann therefore gave another lecture there entitled "World History of the Mediterranean". He died in December at the age of 78.

Since 1942 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Services

For Kornemann during his active career as a university lecturer, teaching always came first before research. Nevertheless, he wrote some historical monographs, mainly on areas of Roman history. For Alfred Gerckes and Eduard Nordens Introduction to Classical Studies , he contributed the part The Roman Empire . The work on the Roman municipal system, which was closely based on Mommsen's, took a central place in his research. Among other things, he wrote the extensive articles on the lemmas colonia and municipium as well as mother law in Pauly's Realencyclopadie of classical antiquity . In addition, Kornemann dealt with the old Italian constitutional history as well as late antiquity and carried out research on the ancient ruler cult. His investigations on the Monumentum Ancyranum, on the other hand, which postulate a stratification of the text, find little support to this day.

In addition, he devoted a monographic study to the great women of antiquity , which, however, is of little scientific value due to their tendency to platitudes and the often uncritical adoption of ancient sources. However, Kornemann became known to a wide audience primarily through his two-volume Roman story , which was published in seven editions by the Stuttgart-based Kröner-Verlag between 1938 and 1977 and was long popular with students in particular. Following the example of Theodor Mommsen, the representation contains vivid, updating value judgments about the people involved. Kornemann stood, like Mommsen, in particular admiring the figure of Gaius Julius Caesar ; but he also praised Augustus as a brilliant statesman. Kornemann's depiction was for a long time the most popular German-language depiction in Roman history; in its assessment of the past, however, it is closely linked to the zeitgeist of the time and is therefore not free from völkisch-nationalist ideas. For Kornemann, the ancient Teutons were the direct ancestors of the Germans; they were drawn accordingly positively. In other respects, however, Kornemann was ahead of his time, for example in that he attached little importance to the year 476 (just like today's research) and rather put the end of antiquity in the 7th century .

He also published many of his research on the history of sources in the Klio (magazine) , which he himself co-founded and edited and which is still one of the most important specialist organs in ancient history.

Fonts

  • The new Livy epitome from Oxyrhynchus. Text and studies (= Klio . Contributions to ancient history. Supplement 2, ISSN  0075-6334 ). Dieterich, Leipzig 1904 (reprint. Scientia, Aalen 1963).
  • Mausoleum and account of the deeds of Augustus. Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1921.
  • with Julius Beloch : Roman History (= Introduction to Classical Studies. Vol. 3, Book 2). Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1923.
  • From the ancient state. Speech given when the Rector took office on October 15, 1926 (= Breslau University Speeches . Issue 1, ZDB -ID 846887-4 ). Ferdinand Hirt, Breslau 1926.
  • The position of women in the pre-Greek Mediterranean culture (= Orient and Antiquity. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 536323-8 ). C. Winter, Heidelberg 1927.
  • State and economy. Lecture given in the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry on February 14, 1929 (= publications of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 638066-9 ). M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1929.
  • New documents on the laconic imperial cult (= treatises of the Silesian Society for patriotic culture. Issue 1, ZDB -ID 501662-9 ). M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1929.
  • Double principle and division of the empire in the Imperium Romanum. Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1930 (reprint. Bouma's Boekhuis, Groningen 1968).
  • States, peoples, men. From the history of antiquity (= The legacy of the ancients. Row 2, Bd. 24, ZDB -ID 527990-2 ). Dieterich, Leipzig 1934.
  • The invisible borders of the Roman Empire (= publications of the Hungarian National Committee for International Spiritual Cooperation. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 2676350-3 ). Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1934.
  • Augustus. The man and his work. (In the light of German research). Lecture (= Breslauer Historische Forschungen. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 538197-6 ). Priebatsch's Buchhandlung, Breslau 1937 (reprint. Scientia, Aalen 1982, ISBN 3-511-07004-X ).
  • Roman history. 2 volumes. Kröner, Stuttgart 1938–1939 (numerous editions);
    • Volume 1: The time of the republic (= Kröner's pocket edition. Vol. 132, ZDB -ID 986558-5 );
    • Volume 2: The Imperial Era (= Kröner's pocket edition. Vol. 133).
  • The Roman Empire. Its rise and fall (= lectures by the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau in the war winter 1940/41. ZDB -ID 1225157-4 ). Korn, Breslau 1941.
  • Great women of antiquity. In the context of two thousand years of world events (= Dieterich Collection. Vol. 86, ZDB -ID 987299-1 ). Dieterich, Leipzig 1942 (numerous editions).
  • Figures and empires. Essays on ancient history (= Dieterich Collection. Vol. 107). Dieterich, Leipzig 1943 (special edition. Schibli-Doppler, Birsfelden 1980).
  • Tacitus. An appreciation in the light of Greek and Latin historiography. Dieterich, Wiesbaden 1946.
  • The Principle of Tiberius and the “Genius Senatus” (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. Born 1947, Issue 1, ISSN  0342-5991 ). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1947.
  • World history of the Mediterranean. From Philip II of Macedonia to Muhammad. 2 volumes. Published by Hermann Bengtson . Biederstein, Munich 1948–1949 (numerous editions; (partial reprint: Geschichte der Spätantike (= Beck'sche black series. Vol. 175). Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-06775-1 );
    • Volume 1: Up to the Battle of Actium (31 BC). 1948;
    • Volume 2: From Augustus to the victory of the Arabs. 1949.
  • State and Economy in Antiquity: Lecture given in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Breslau on February 14, 1929 , Breslau 1929.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Kornemann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 58/396
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  3. ^ Fekete Gézáné: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagjai, 1825-1973. Budapest, 1975. 357f.
  4. ↑ Jakob Seibert : "From seminar to seminar". In: Derselbe (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901–2001) (= Ludovico Maximilianea. Research and sources. Volume 19). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 , pp. 23–39, here p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Kornemann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian; Rector in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenthal near Kassel
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1946
Place of death Munich