Gabriele Bockisch

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Gabriele Bockisch (born January 10, 1936 in Berlin ; † September 3, 2012 in Rostock ) was a German ancient historian .

life and career

Gabriele Bockisch began studying general history at the Humboldt University in Berlin after graduating from high school in 1954 . In 1956 she moved to the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where she studied Ancient History , Classical Archeology and Classical Philology . In 1958, Bockisch passed her university final examination ( state examination ) in two main subjects, general history with a focus on ancient history and classical archeology, and in 1960, after completing her postgraduate studies at Humboldt University, a university final examination in the field of classical philology in the subjects of Greek and Latin studies .

From 1958 Bockisch worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquity (since 1969 part of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology / ZIAGA) at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . In 1965 she received her doctorate as Dr. phil. , again at the Humboldt University on the subject of Harmostaí. Lacedaemon and the Hellenic Poleis from the Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Kings , experts were Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and Johannes Irmscher . A rigorosum in the field of ancient oriental archeology was recognized as a minor examination . Bockisch was appointed senior assistant in 1967 after a lecture and colloquium on the so-called Constitution of the Lycurgus . In 1968 he completed his habilitation on The Carians and Their Dynasts . Reviewers were again Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and Johannes Irmscher as well as Robert Heidenreich . With this she had acquired the faculties for general history with a special focus on ancient history. Then Bockisch became a research assistant at ZIAGA, which meanwhile belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

The printing of the habilitation thesis in an academy series was rejected by Elisabeth Welskopf on the grounds that there was a “lack of Marxist theory”. Her applications to the history section of the Humboldt University for a vacant position in the field of ancient history were not considered in 1970 and 1982 because she refused to join the SED . From 1971 to 1982 Bockisch taught on a fee basis at the Humboldt University in the areas of Ancient History and Classical Philology. In September 1987 she was appointed to succeed Wolfgang Hering at the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock as a university lecturer in classical philology.

After the reopening of the Institute for Classical Studies in 1991, she gave courses on ancient history as well as Graecum and Latinum courses. In 1992 she became HRG professor, but not under administrative law. In 1993 Gabriele Bockisch was a member of the curriculum commission at the Ministry of Culture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Since 1993/94 she has been teaching as a research assistant in the Department of Ancient History at Rostock University.

1960 to 1968 Bockisch took part in the excavation campaigns in the north Bulgarian Limes Fort Iatrus as part of the ZIAGA . Another task within the framework of the ZIAGA was the work as the scientific secretary of the Klio magazine from 1958 to 1970. In 1970 she even became the scientific head of work - the editor-in-chief - of the Klio . Since 1969 there was also a service obligation to work in so-called “major projects” in addition to the publication of the Klio . The main research areas of her scientific work are the constitution of Sparta ( Lycurgica ), ancient Caria and the laconic Helena . What was particularly striking about Gabriele Bockisch was her versatility. She taught in the fields of ancient history and classical philology - here both ancient Greek and Latin -, was active in archaeological research and was also familiar with neighboring disciplines. Her Karian studies were funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation .

Fonts

  • Abram B. Ranowitsch. Essays on Ancient History (Ed.), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1961 (Lebendiges Altertum, Vol. 4)
  • Cornelius Nepos. Attic statesmen from a Roman perspective - Themistocles, Alkibiades, Thrasybul (with Joachim Klowski), Buchner, Bamberg 2006 (Auxilia, vol. 56) ISBN 978-3-7661-5456-9

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personal data
SURNAME Stubborn, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2012
Place of death Rostock