Franz Joseph Dölger Institute

The Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for the Study of Late Antiquity is one of the "central scientific institutions" of the University of Bonn serving interdisciplinary research and is directly assigned to the University Senate.

task

The task of the institute is to research the late antique foundations of European culture. According to the statutes, it is fulfilled by the director and the employees of the institute with the help of German and foreign scholars.

The research results of the institute are preferably published in the Reallexikon für Antike und Christianentum and in the yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Further series of publications of the institute are the supplementary volumes as well as the small series of supplementary volumes of the yearbook for antiquity and Christianity and the monograph series Theophaneia .

The “work center” of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts “for the publication of the Real Lexicon (RAC) and the yearbook (JbAC) for antiquity and Christianity” is set up in the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute .

history

The institute, named after the Bonn church historian Franz Joseph Dölger , was founded in 1955 by Theodor Klauser at the University of Bonn. At the same time, on the initiative of Clemens Plassmann, the Association for the Promotion of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn e. V. , which was the legal sponsor of the institute until the end of 1975. Since January 1, 1976, the institute has been incorporated into the University of Bonn, retaining its original task. The work on the Reallexikon and the yearbook for antiquity and Christianity founded in 1958 is carried out by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . The development of the Real Lexicon , whose articles are not only a summary of the state of research, but also carry out initial research on the special topic of the transformation of ancient cultures into the early medieval and early Byzantine and thus into today's European culture, is done by the respective editors of the Real Lexicon , the scientific staff of the Institute and a large number of international researchers from the relevant fields. The institute's library is also open to external visitors.

Directors of the Dölger Institute

• Theodor Klauser (1955–1972)
• Ernst Dassmann (1972-2001)
• Georg Schöllgen (since 2001)

literature

• Theodor Klauser : The Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity and the FJ Dölger Institute in Bonn. Reports, considerations, guidelines . 2nd ext. Ed., Anton Hiersemann Verlag , Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-7772-7014-8 .
• Ernst Dassmann (Ed.): The Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity and the FJ Dölger Institute in Bonn. With indexes for the keywords A to Ianus and the authors, volumes 1–16 . Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7772-9427-6 .
• Ernst Dassmann: Origin and development of the “Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity” and the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute in Bonn . In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . No. 40, Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1997, pp. 5-17.
• N. Borengässer: Correspondence between Theodor Klauser and Jan Hendrik Waszink 1946–1951. A historical contribution to the continuation of the RAC after World War II . In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. No. 40, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1997, pp. 18-37.

Web links

• Website of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for the Study of Late Antiquity: History of the Institute. Retrieved December 11, 2015 . 
2. ^ Association for the promotion of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn e. V .; accessed on February 21, 2014.