Gerhard Perl
Gerhard Perl (born February 19, 1927 in Ortelsburg ; † October 30, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
In 1951 Gerhard Perl became a research assistant at the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquities of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1953 from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on the subject of critical investigations into Diodor's Roman year count . At the academy, Perl was involved in many large-scale projects, not infrequently in a leading position, for example as a department head for the constitution of the cultural history of antiquity . His commentary on Tacitus ' Germania is considered outstanding and fundamental. It was also Perl's habilitation thesis at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU). In addition to his work at the academy, Perl took on teaching assignments at the HU Berlin, where, as a Latinist, he and several other academy employees supported the responsible ancient historian Armin Jähne . After the fall of the Berlin Wall he became a professor of classical philology, particularly historiography, at the Free University of Berlin .
Gerhard Perl died on October 30, 2008 in a traffic accident.
Fonts
- Critical investigations into Diodor's Roman census , Academy, Berlin 1957 (Writings of the Section for Classical Studies of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Vol. 9)
- Germania. Latin and German , Academy, Berlin 1990 ( Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium C.E. Part 2 / Writings and sources of the Old World , Vol. 37.2) ISBN 3-05-000349- 9
literature
- Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers : Gerhard Perl † . In: Gnomon , Volume 82 (2010), pp. 188–191 (with list of publications)
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Perl in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Schuller : Contents of ancient historical research in the GDR , In: Isolde Stark (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the ancient history in the GDR , Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, p. 85
- ↑ Bernd Florath: On the discussion about the Asian production method , In: Isolde Stark (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old history in the GDR , Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, p. 186
- ↑ Vademecum of History, 1994, p. 509. 1998/1999, p. 493
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perl, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ortelsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berlin |