Franz Hampl

Franz Hampl (born December 8, 1910 in Bozen , † October 30, 2000 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian ancient historian .

Franz Hampl, son of an Austrian officer who fell in 1914, and a mother from Merano , grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg . He studied in Leipzig, where his uncle Hans Driesch was a professor, Frankfurt and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1934 at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation The King of the Macedons . He then received an assistant position to Helmut Berve in Leipzig and completed his habilitation in 1937 with a thesis on The Greek State Treaties of the 4th Century BC. Chr. And received a university professorship in 1939 after joining the NSDAP . At the beginning of the Second World War , Hampl was drafted and spent the rest of the war as an officer. Although he accepted an offer at the University of Giessen , he was never able to teach because of his military service. When the University of Giessen was temporarily closed in 1945, Hampl was unemployed. In 1946 he went to the newly founded University of Mainz as a full professor . In 1947 he became professor for ancient history at the University of Innsbruck and remained in this position until his retirement in 1978. His successor was his student Reinhold Bichler .

Hampl dealt in particular with Macedonian and Roman history, ancient constitutional law, the history of religion, mythology, ancient and modern historiography, as well as historical theory and ancient cultural contacts. In 1992 he was awarded the Tyrolean State Prize for Science .

literature

Karl Christ : Klio's changes. The German ancient history from neo-humanism to the present. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54181-X , pp. 139f.
Claudia Deglau: The ancient historian Franz Hampl between National Socialism and Democracy: Continuity and change in the subject of ancient history (= Philippika. Marburg antiquity treatises. Volume 115). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10905-5 .
Peter W. Haider, Robert Rollinger (ed.): Ancient historical studies in the field of tension between universal and scientific history. Festschrift for Franz Hampl for his 90th birthday on December 8, 2000. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07767-7 . Table of contents (PDF; 66 kB) and introduction (PDF; 72 kB)
Ingomar Weiler: Franz Hampl . In: Reinhold Bichler (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History in Innsbruck. Franz Hampl on his 75th birthday ( Research on Innsbruck University History. Volume 13). Innsbruck 1985, ISBN 3-900-25902-X , pp. 61–74 ( online ; MS Word ; 332 kB).
Robert Rollinger: Franz Hampl (December 8th, 1910 - October 30th, 2000): An ancient historian between universal theory and homeland - an obituary. In: Montfort. Quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlberg, 53rd volume, volume 1/2001, ISBN 3-85430-298-3 , pp. 7-10 ( online at ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online ).

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Hampl in the catalog of the German National Library
List of publications on the website of the University of Innsbruck (PDF; 127 kB)

Remarks

↑ Date of joining February 3, 1939, membership number 6.444.652, see Jörg-Peter Jatho, Gerd Simon: Gießener Historiker im Third Reich . Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88349-522-4 , p. 74.
^ Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Hampl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 2000
Place of death	innsbruck

[1] Date of joining February 3, 1939, membership number 6.444.652, see Jörg-Peter Jatho, Gerd Simon: Gießener Historiker im Third Reich . Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88349-522-4 , p. 74.

[2] Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.