Ettore Pais

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Ettore Pais (born July 27, 1856 in Borgo San Dalmazzo , † March 28, 1939 in Rome ) was an Italian ancient historian and classical archaeologist .

life and career

Ettore Pais was the son of Piedmontese parents. His father Michele Pais Leone was a nobleman, his mother's name was Carlotta Tranchero. Between 1874 and 1878 he studied in Lucca and Florence, his most important teachers were Atto Vannucci and Domenico Comparetti . From 1880 to 1884 he was employed at the University of Sassari and arranged the archaeological museum of the university. He also continued his studies with Theodor Mommsen at Berlin University between 1881 and 1883 , focusing on legal history . Until 1884 he also worked on the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum project headed by Mommsen , for which he co-edited the fifth part. In 1884 he initiated the publication of the magazine Nuovo Bullettino Archeologica Sardo , which was given a modern cut and also included topics on medieval archeology, ethnography and anthropology . Pais began his academic career at the University of Palermo in 1886, and in 1888 he became a full professor of ancient history at the University of Pisa . In 1899 he moved to the University of Naples . Between 1901 and 1905 he directed the excavations in Pompeii and was director of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples . He then taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . From 1923 to 1931 he taught as a professor of ancient history at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of his career he has also taught at the universities of Bucharest , Prague , Madrid , Barcelona , Boston , Cambridge , New York , Chicago and the Sorbonne . Pais was also active as a politician and was a senator from 1922 until his death . First, he represented an imperial policy that saw Italy as the dominant power in the Mediterranean . Luigi Facta planned with him as a senator after the First World War , but this did not materialize due to Benito Mussolini's takeover . After initial rejection, Pais came to terms with the fascists.

Pais was an argumentative scientist who was not infrequently offensive. Despite his respect for this, he denied Mommsen's results in researching the Twelve Tables law , which he considered a more recent construct. The universities of Oxford, Chicago and Paris awarded him honorary doctorates . He was a member of the editorial board of the ancient historical journal Klio . Pais achieved his greatest scientific achievements in exploring Sardinia.

The Accademia dei Lincei he belonged since 1898 as corresponding member, for socio nazionale he was in 1910. Since 1902 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • La Sardegna prima del dominio romano. Studî storici ed archeologici. In: Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Class di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. Memory. Anno 278, Series 3, Volume 7, 1880/1881, pp. 259-378.
  • Sulla civiltà dei nuraghi e sullo sviluppo sociologico della Sardegna. In: Archivio storico sardo. Volume 6, 1910, ISSN  2037-5514 , pp. 85-192.
  • Storia della Sardegna e della Corsica durante il dominio romano. Nardecchia, Rome 1923, ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Leandro Polverini (Editor): Aspetti della storiografia di Ettore Pais. Università degli Studi di Perugia. Incontri perugini di storia della storiografia antica e sul mondo antico, VII. Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples 2002, ISBN 88-495-0535-3 . Review by Filippo Canali De Rossi in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Web links

supporting documents

  1. See the official website of the excavations in Pompeii ; all other Wikipedia language versions give the wrong years 1910 to 1914.
  2. Codification and legitimation of law in antiquity and in the ancient Orient
  3. Annuario della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1993, p. 366