Franz Schehl

Franz Schehl (born January 20, 1898 in Vienna , † May 9, 1956 in Portsmouth , Rhode Island ) was an Austrian ancient historian .

Life

Franz Schehl, the son of a public school director, attended grammar schools in Vienna and Graz , served as a soldier in World War I and then studied history in Graz , where he received his doctorate degree on February 6, 1925. phil. received his doctorate . Since January 1, 1927, he was a research assistant at the Ancient History Seminar in Graz, and in 1929 he completed his habilitation at the University of Graz for Ancient History. In 1932 he received a teaching assignment to the hitherto of Otto Cuntz represented chair of Roman Archeology continue. In 1934 the faculty submitted an unsuccessful application to the ministry to make him a paid associate professor. On October 1, 1936, he was appointed as associate professor for ancient history and Greek and Roman antiquity and epigraphy , succeeding Wilhelm Enßlin, at the previous chair for ancient history and antiquity there.

After the annexation of Austria , the National Socialists classified Schehl, although a Catholic, as a “first degree Jewish half-race” and in April 1938 retired. In the winter of 1938, under the influence of the November pogroms , he prepared to emigrate . From 1939 to 1940 he was a visiting professor at Bristol University . In April 1940 he moved to the USA and changed his name to Francis W. Schehl . From 1941 he headed the Classics Department at the Priory School in Portsmouth (Rhode Island) . From 1944 to 1945 he also worked for the Office of Strategic Services .

After the end of the Second World War , the University of Graz offered Schehl a return to his old position, but he declined for unknown reasons. He continued to teach at the Priory School and published minor essays. In 1941 he was accepted into the American Philological Association . He died on May 9, 1956.

Fonts (selection)

• The Roman city fortification inscriptions from the imperial era to the reign of Diocletian . Graz 1925 (dissertation).
• An archistratos des praefectus Aegypti Valerius Eudaemon . In: Annual Issues of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 24 (1927), pp. 95-106.
• Investigations into the history of the emperor Antoninus Pius . In: Hermes 65 (1930), pp. 177-208.
• To the Corinthian covenant from the year 338/37 BC Chr . In: Annual Issues of the Austrian Archaeological Institute 27 (1931), pp. 115–145.
• The Survival of the Classical Languages . In: The Classical Weekly 41 (1948), pp. 134-138.
• Darius' Letter to Gadatas . In: American Journal of Archeology 54 (1950), p. 265 (abstract of the lecture).
• The Date of Hermogenes the Architect . In: American Journal of Archeology 55 (1951), p. 152 (abstract of the lecture).
• Probouleutic Commissioners in Miletus during the Hellenistic Period . In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 82 (1951), pp. 111-126.
• On an Inscription from Phistyon in Aetolia (SB Berlin 1936, 367 ff.) . In American Journal of Archeology 56 (1952), pp. 9-19.
• On the Epinicus Inscription from Didyma . In: American Journal of Archeology 58 (1954), pp. 13-26.

literature

• Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association . Volume 87 (1956), p. VIII.
• Catherine Epstein (Ed.): A past renewed: a catalog of German-speaking refugee historians in the United States after 1933 . Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1993, p. 371. [1]
• Alois Kernbauer: From the Reich University to the Karl Franzens University . In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz 25 (1994), pp. 381–382.
• Christian Rohrmoser: Franz resp. Francis Schehl. An expelled Grazer Althistoriker , Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 2019 (publications from the archive of the University of Graz; 47), ISBN 978-3-201-02042-8 .

Web links

• Information on Franz Schehl's fragmentary estate in the Graz University Archives
• Walter Höflechner : The historical seminar of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Paragraph 5.2.4.1; 5.2.6; 6.1.3. Pp. 192, 194-196, 218-219.