Ernst Stein (historian)

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Ernst Edward Aurel Stein (born September 19, 1891 in Jaworzno , Galicia , † February 25, 1945 in Friborg , Switzerland ) was an Austrian ancient historian and professor of Byzantine history .

Life

The nephew of the British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein came from the liberal Jewish upper class - his father was the director of a coal mine - and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1914 under the Mommsen student Ludo Moritz Hartmann with a thesis on the late antique Ravenna . After completing his habilitation in Vienna in 1919, he taught there as a private lecturer. In 1927 he became an employee of the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt am Main. In 1929 he switched to the Berlin University as a private lecturer , where he was appointed associate professor in 1931. In 1932 he went to the University of Brussels as a visiting professor and in 1934 was appointed professor of Byzantine history at the Catholic University of Washington, DC. In 1937 he returned to Europe because he had received an appointment as professor of Byzantine philology at the University of Leuven . After the German occupation of Belgium, Stein fled to the as yet unoccupied southern France in 1940 and had to emigrate to Switzerland in 1942. There he worked as a private lecturer in Geneva. In 1945, Stein was unable to take up another appointment at the University of Leuven.

Act

Stein's fields of work include administrative, military, church and legal history in late antiquity , and he also made contributions to the Realencyclopedia of classical antiquity . In addition, he edited the estate of Emil Ritterling on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences from 1928 . His main work is the only posthumously complete history of the late Roman Empire (1928), the second volume of which was published in 1949 by Jean-Rémy Palanque (1898–1988) as Histoire du Bas-Empire , since Stein has been since the transfer of power to the National Socialists 1933 no longer wrote in German.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the history of Ravenna in late Roman and Byzantine times . In: Klio 16, 1920, pp. 40-71 (excerpt from the dissertation).
  • Studies on the history of the Byzantine Empire , Stuttgart 1919 (habilitation).
  • Investigations into the office of the Praetorian prefecture since Diocletian , Vienna 1922 (ND Amsterdam 1962).
  • In memory of LM Hartmann . In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 18, 1925, pp. 312–332.
  • History of the late Roman Empire, Vol. 1: From the Roman to the Byzantine state (284–476 AD) . Vienna 1928 [2. Brussels 1959 edition, in French Language]; Vol. 2: Histoire du Bas-Empire: De la disparition de l'Empire d'Occident à la mort de Justinien (476-565 AD) . Published by Jean-Rémy Palanque . Brussels / Paris 1949 [ND Amsterdam 1968] - contains pp. VII – XXII summary of Stein's life.
  • The imperial officials and troops in Roman Germany under the principate . Presented by Ernst Stein using Emil Ritterling's estate. Vienna 1932 (contributions to the administrative and military history of Gaul and Germania; 1).
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . Volume XIII. Inscriptiones trium Galliarum et Germaniarum Latinae . Pars VI: Signacula publice laterculis impressa . Edidit E. Stein. Berlin 1933 (reprint 1974)
  • Opera minora selecta . Published by Jean-Rémy Palanque. Amsterdam 1968.

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  1. ↑ He converted to the Roman Catholic faith, cf. Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 , p. 1110.
  2. ↑ Bibliography in: Ernest Stein: Histoire du Bas-Empire II , Brussels / Paris 1949, pp. XIX – XXI.
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Ernest; Stein, Ernst Edward Aurel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Jaworzno
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1945
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland