Gerhard Pfohl

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Gerhard Alois Pfohl (born February 16, 1929 in Böhmisch Eisenstein ; † June 29, 2016 in Nuremberg ) was a German classical philologist , epigraphist and medical historian .

Live and act

Pfohl was born the son of the merchant Alois Pfohl and his wife Elisabeth. His family was expelled from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and lived in Regen in the Bavarian Forest from 1946 .

After graduating from the Metten Benedictine Abbey in 1948, Pfohl studied Classical Philology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg . In 1949 he switched to the University of Erlangen , where he was shaped by Alois Gotsmich , Friedrich Stroh and Otto Seel . After the teaching examination in Greek, Latin and German in the summer of 1952, Pfohl worked from November 24, 1952 at the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Erlangen . In the fall of 1953 he was transferred to the New High School in Nuremberg . On 19 December 1953 he was at the University of Erlangen Dr. phil. PhD . In 1956 Pfohl married Alma Linder, from which three children emerged.

In addition to his work in high school, Pfohl also continued his research. He wrote numerous articles for the Anzeiger für die Antiquities , which was edited at the University of Innsbruck . At this university , Pfohl completed his habilitation in 1967 for the subject “Greek epigraphy in the context of classical philology” as an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck.

From 1965 to 1976 Pfohl worked as a lecturer at the University of Erlangen, where he held medical-historical and epigraphic exercises. In 1973 he was appointed associate professor and in 1974 titular associate professor. On July 15, 1977 he became professor and institute director for medical history and medical sociology at the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich . Pfohl retired in 1994 and lived in Nuremberg.

Gerhard Pfohl was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1974 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested on May 4, 1974 in Düsseldorf by Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Most recently he was a Grand Officer of the Papal Order of Knights (Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem). Pfohl was also a member of the Order of Malta .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Investigations into the Attic grave inscriptions. Erlangen 1953, (Erlangen, University, dissertation, 1953).
  • Story and epigram. A small source reading book of Greek inscriptions for the study of history and literature (= The ancient language teaching. Workbooks on its scientific justification and practical form. Volume 8, No. 2, supplement) Klett, Stuttgart 1965 (= The ancient language teaching. Working aids Greek. Volume 8th).
  • Bibliography of Greek Verse Inscriptions. Olms, Hildesheim 1964.
  • as editor: Greek inscriptions as evidence of private and public life. Greek – German. Heimeran, Munich 1966.
  • Poetic cabaret on ancient Greek monuments. Selected inscriptions with translations and explanations. Heimeran, Munich 1967.
  • as editor: Das Alphabet. Origin and development of the Greek script (= ways of research . 88). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968.
  • Elements of Greek epigraphy (= Libelli series. 194, ZDB -ID 846543-5 ). Checked and supplemented special edition, reprographic reprint. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1968.
  • as editor: The Epigram. On the history of an inscribed and literary genre (= ways of research. 88). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969.
  • as editor: The Greek Elegy. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-534-03858-4 .
  • Greek inscriptions. Epigraphic sources on the history of ancient medicine. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-06326-0 .
  • as editor: The Study of Greek Epigraphy. An introduction. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-04340-5 .
  • Paracelsus geriatrics and contemporary gerontology. In: Medical World. Volume 29, 1978, pp. 1862-1866.
  • Humanitas hippocratica. In: Journal of General Practice . Vol. 59, No. 35/36, pp. 1943-1954, (special print: Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983).
  • Medicine and history. Thoughts on the occasion of a hospital anniversary. Schattauer, Stuttgart et al. 1984, ISBN 3-7945-1024-0 .
  • Medicus gratiosus: Something from yesterday. (Speech for the 75th anniversary of the German Faculty Conference in 1988 in Münster / Westphalia). In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 211–220.
  • Medicina perennis. Philosophy of medicine and medicine of philosophy. ecomed, Landsberg / Lech 1994, ISBN 3-609-63410-3 .
  • Epigram Philology. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Vol. 8/9, 2012/2013, ISSN  1863-6780 , pp. 177-188.

literature

  • Robert Muth : The habilitations in Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck. In: Acta philologica Aenipontana. Vol. 4, 1979, ISSN  0065-1532 , pp. 7-21 (on Pfohl especially pp. 19 f.).
  • Who is who? 33rd edition, 1994, p. 1023.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Nürnberger Nachrichten / Nürnberger Zeitung , July 6, 2016, nordbayern.de, accessed on July 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Pfohl, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfohl, Gerhard Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, epigraphist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Eisenstein
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2016
Place of death Nuremberg , Germany