Günther Klaffenbach
Günther Klaffenbach (born June 20, 1890 in Berlin , † March 3, 1972 in Berlin) was a German epigraphist .
Life
The son of a businessman attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, where the teachers Johannes Kirchner and Hans Pomtow aroused his interest in Greek epigraphy at an early age. He studied in Heidelberg and Berlin (among others with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ) classical philology and archeology as well as history and philosophy and received his doctorate in 1914. After participating in the First World War and a serious wound, he worked as a teacher at the Kleist grammar school in Berlin from 1920. At the intercession of Wilamowitz, he took over the supervision of the Inscriptiones Graecae at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1929 as the successor to Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen . In 1953 he became a full member of the academy and head of the inscription edition.
From 1935 to 1955, Klaffenbach held lectures as an honorary professor at Berlin University . He was a corresponding member of several academies, such as the British Academy from 1961 , and an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Rennes and Besançon.
Klaffenbach devoted himself entirely to the Inscriptiones Graecae and tried to maintain their central position in Greek epigraphy. He edited several volumes of the inscription corpus and wrote an introduction to Greek epigraphy that is still useful today.
Fonts
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Inscriptiones Graecae
- IX, 1 (2nd edition).
- 1. Inscriptiones Aetoliae . 1932.
- 2. Inscriptiones Acarnaniae . 1957.
- 3. Inscriptiones Locridis occidentalis . 1968.
- IX, 1 (2nd edition).
- Greek epigraphy . 2nd, improved edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966 ( digitized 1st edition 1957 ).
literature
- Günter Dunst: Klaffenbach, Günther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 700 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Irmscher : Memorial words for Günther Klaffenbach, spoken at the urn burial on April 13, 1972 . In: Archives for Papyrus Research and Related Areas . Volume 22/23 (1973/1974), pp. 399-401.
Web links
- Literature by and about Günther Klaffenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Klaffenbach, Günther |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German epigraphist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1972 |
Place of death | Berlin |