Günther Klaffenbach

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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

  • Inscriptiones Graecae
    • IX, 1 (2nd edition).
      • 1. Inscriptiones Aetoliae . 1932.
      • 2. Inscriptiones Acarnaniae . 1957.
      • 3. Inscriptiones Locridis occidentalis . 1968.
  • Greek epigraphy . 2nd, improved edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966 ( digitized 1st edition 1957 ).

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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