Friedrich Vittinghoff

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German nobleman and politician of the same name, see Friedrich von Vittinghoff .

Friedrich Vittinghoff (born May 19, 1910 in Essen , † June 11, 1999 in Nuremberg ) was a German ancient historian .

Friedrich Vittinghoff studied history, classical philology and Protestant theology in Bonn and Berlin . Since May 1933 he was a member of the SA and since 1937 a member of the NSDAP . He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1934/35 with the thesis The Public Enemy in the Roman Empire . In 1939 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel with a paper reviewed by Paul L. Strack . Her theme was the rise of the subjugated peoples in Rome's bourgeoisie and ruling class. He initially worked as a private lecturer, from 1943 he taught as an associate professor at the University of Posen . After the end of the Second World War , Vittinghoff, who was a soldier in the Wehrmacht for five years , became a prisoner of war . In 1950 he received a teaching position at the University of Marburg and in 1955 he was appointed to a professorship for Ancient History at the University of Kiel as the successor to Alfred Heuss . In 1962 he was offered a professorship at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . There he was also press officer and editor of the magazine Das Neue Erlangen . In 1966 he moved to the University of Cologne , where he was director of the Ancient History Department at the Institute for Classical Studies until his retirement in 1978. Vittinghoff's students include Werner Eck , Hartmut Galsterer , Hartmut Wolff .

Vittinghoff researched primarily on the Roman imperial era and dealt particularly with the fundamental problems of the Roman urban system, created a documentation of all Roman and Latin cities founded in the Roman Empire. Important topics in his work are also early Christianity, the ancient city, the transition from late antiquity to the Middle Ages, and the slave-holding state. He was co-editor of the Handbook of European Economic and Social History .

Fonts

• The public enemy in the Roman Empire. Investigations on the "damnatio memoriae" (= New German Research. Volume 84). Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1936.
• Roman colonization and civil rights policy under Caesar and Augustus (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. 1951, no. 14). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz 1952.
• European economic and social history in the Roman Empire. (= Handbook of European Economic and Social History. Volume 1). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-12-904730-1 .
• Emperor Augustus. Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1959 (3rd revised and supplemented edition 1991).
• Civitas Romana. City and political-social integration in the Roman Empire of the Imperial Era. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-91305-X .

literature

• Herbert Heinrichs: On the retirement of Prof. Dr. F. Vittinghoff. In: History in Cologne . 2, 1978, pp. 12-17.
• Werner Eck : Studies on ancient social history: Festschrift for Friedrich Vittinghoff (on the occasion of his 70th birthday on May 19, 1980) (= Cologne historical treatises. Volume 28). Böhlau, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-412-01180-0 .
• Werner Eck (Hrsg.): Religion and Society in the Roman Empire. Colloquium in honor of Friedrich Vittinghoff (= Cologne historical treatises. Volume 35). Böhlau, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-412-17589-7 .
• Vittinghoff is seventy years old. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. No. 114, 15/16. May 1980, p. 14.
• The old historian Prof. Vittinghoff is 70 years old. In: Kölnische Rundschau. May 17, 1980.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Vittinghoff in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ^ Stefan Rebenich: National Socialism and Ancient History. Continuity and discontinuity in research and teaching. In: Isolde Stark (ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old history in the GDR. Contributions to the conference from November 21 to 23, 2002 in Halle / Saale, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 42–64, here: p. 49.