Franz Miltner

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Franz Miltner (born October 28, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † July 23, 1959 there ) was an Austrian classical archaeologist and ancient historian .

Life

Miltner, the son of a ministerial advisor, studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Vienna from 1921 to 1925 , where he received his doctorate in 1925 with a thesis on Roman ship types. In 1926 or 1927 he became a research assistant at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI). He took part in its excavations in Ephesus and directed the excavations in Carnuntum in Lower Austria from 1926 to 1931, and in Alt-Smyrna from 1935 to 1936 .

After completing his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 1932 with a paper on ancient naval warfare and marine life published as a RE article , he succeeded Carl Lehmann-Haupt as associate professor for ancient history in Innsbruck in 1933 . After research stays in Ankara, he received a full professorship at the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck in 1939 or 1940, where he was dean from 1939 to 1942. In 1944/45 he did military service.

Miltner, who advocated National Socialism , made among other things after the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Research Foundation that a racial-historical institute should also be set up in Rome and became a member of the NSDAP .

After the end of World War II, Miltner's closeness to National Socialist ideas led to the loss of his professorship and his early retirement in 1945/46.

Thanks to the efforts of friends and colleagues, Franz Miltner was able to resume his archaeological activity. He had been carrying out excavations on behalf of the OeAI since 1948 and in 1950 took over the excavation management in Aguntum . In 1954 he was employed again as a first class state archaeologist at the ÖAI and directed the excavations in Ephesus from 1954 until his unexpected death in 1959.

Miltner became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in 1932 and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1943 . From 1937 to 1945 he was editor of the magazine Klio (together with Lothar Wickert ) and the Historia Mundi .

The main focus of Miltner's scientific work was on excavations in Asia Minor and at Roman provincial sites in Austria. During the time of National Socialism, he also turned to ancient historical topics, which he treated under current political aspects. He was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

In 1971 the Miltnerweg in Vienna- Simmering (11th district) was named after him.

His grandson Harold Ian Miltner is a journalist and writer.

Fonts

  • The second amphitheater in Carnuntum . 1931. 5th edition 1949.
  • Naval warfare. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement V, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 864-905. and marine life. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume V, Stuttgart 1931, Sp. 906-962.
  • The Cömeterium of the Seven Sleepers . 1936 (research in Ephesus IX / 2).
  • Germanic heads of antiquity . 1938.
  • Roman times in Austrian lands . 1948.
  • Lavant and Aguntum . 1950.
  • Ephesus. City of Artemis and John. 1958.
  • Excavation reports on the excavations in Ephesus in the annual journals of the Austrian Archaeological Institute .

literature

  • Fritz Eichler : Franz Miltner . In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Vol. 44 (1959), supplement p. 1 f.
  • Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 284.
  • Josef Keil : Franz Miltner . In: Gnomon . 31: 654-655 (1959).
  • Josef Keil: Franz Miltner. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 110 (1960), pp. 361-372.
  • Karl Reinhard Krierer: “Pictures from German life. Germanic heads of antiquity ”. A sketch for Franz Miltner. In: Fritz Blakolmer, Hubert D. Szemethy (Eds.): Files from the 8th Austrian Archaeological Day Vienna 1999 . Phoibos, Vienna 2001, pp. 217–224 ( short version online ).
  • Martina Pesitschek: Franz Miltner (1901–1959) . In: Gunnar Brands , Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Classical archaeologists and National Socialism (= people - cultures - traditions. Studies from the research clusters of the German Archaeological Institute. Vol. 2.1). Leidorf, Rahden 2012, pp. 177–191
  • Ursula Quatember: On F. Miltner's excavation work on Kuretenstrasse . In: Barbara Brandt, Verena Gassner, Sabine Ladstätter (eds.): Synergia. Festschrift for Friedrich Krinzinger . Phoibos, Vienna 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 271-278.
  • Christoph Ulf : Franz Miltner . In: Reinhold Bichler (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History in Innsbruck. Franz Hampl on his 75th birthday (= research on Innsbruck university history. Vol. 13). Kommissionsverlag der Wagner'schen Universitätsbuchhandlung, Innsbruck 1985, pp. 47–59 (including Eva-Maria Pyrker, Christoph Ulf: List of publications by Franz Miltner, pp. 104–106).
  • Christoph Ulf:  Franz Miltner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 534 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Völkl : [Obituary for Franz Miltner] . In: Anzeiger für die Altarwissenschaft . Vol. 12 (1959), col. 189-191.
  • Gudrun Wlach: Franz Miltner . In: 100 Years of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (1898–1998) (= special publications of the ÖAI. Vol. 31). ÖAI, Vienna 1998, pp. 126–128.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77476-1 , p. 284.
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Ulf :  Franz Miltner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 534 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 442.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 442, source BA R 73/11865.
  5. ^ Peter Goller , Gerhard Oberkofler : University of Innsbruck. Denazification and rehabilitation of Nazi cadres (1945–1950). Bader, Angerberg 2003, p. 67.
  6. ^ Franz Miltner grave site , Vienna, Grinzinger Friedhof, Group 24, Row 2, No. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Miltner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1959
Place of death Vienna