Fritz Gschnitzer

Fritz Gschnitzer (born January 6, 1929 in Innsbruck ; † November 27, 2008 in Neckargemünd ) was an Austrian ancient historian .

Fritz Gschnitzer came from a Tyrolean family of scholars. His father was the lawyer Franz Gschnitzer , his brother the surgeon Franz Gschnitzer .

From 1947 he studied Classical Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Indo-European Studies in Innsbruck , where he received his doctorate from Franz Hampl in 1951 with the topic The communities of the Middle East during the Achaemenid period and in 1957 he completed his habilitation with the work Dependent Places in Ancient Greece . From 1955 to 1962 he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck. In 1962 he became a full professor of ancient history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ; he held the office until his retirement in 1997. Wolfgang Blösel was one of his academic students in Heidelberg .

Gschnitzer was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He dealt mainly with the Greek constitutional and social history, the Mycenaean philology and the history of the ancient Orient as well as Greek onomastics and epigraphy , for which extraordinary linguistic knowledge enabled him.

Fonts

• Dependent places in ancient Greece . Beck, Munich 1958.
• Church and government. Of the basic forms of the Greek state system (Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Meeting reports. Vol. 235, 3). Böhlau, Vienna, 1960.
• Studies in the Greek terminology of slavery. 2 volumes. (On commission from) Steiner, Wiesbaden 1964 and 1976.
  • Volume 1: Basic features of pre-Hellenistic language use (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1963, No. 13).
• The seven Persians and the kingdom of Darius. A contribution to the history of the Achamenids and the analysis of Herodotus (session reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Born 1977, 3). C. Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1977.
• Greek social history. From the Mycenaean to the end of the classical period . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-03552-4 (also Italian and Spanish translation).
• Small writings on ancient Greece and Rome . 2 volumes. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001 and 2003, ISBN 3-515-07805-3 , ISBN 3-515-08037-6 .

literature

• Tassilo Schmitt : Gschnitzer, Fritz. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 515 f.
• Tassilo Schmitt: Mountain farmers instead of Philhellenes. On the death of the ancient historian Fritz Gschnitzer from Heidelberg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 4, 2008, p. 13.
• Hans-Joachim Gehrke : Fritz Gschnitzer (6.1.1929 - 27.11.2008). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for 2008 , Heidelberg 2009, pp. 169–172.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Gschnitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary from Heidelberg University