Gerhard Plaumann

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Gerhard Walter Bernhard Plaumann (born September 2, 1887 in Döhrings , Rastenburg district , East Prussia , † October 23, 1918 ) was a German papyrologist .

Life

Gerhard Plaumann, the son of the grammar school professor Emil Plaumann (1846-1897), attended the Royal High School in Danzig, where he received his school-leaving certificate on March 3, 1905. He then studied Classical Philology and Ancient History , initially for two semesters at the University of Halle , then at the University of Leipzig . Here he was particularly influenced by the ancient historian Ulrich Wilcken , the leading papyrologist in Germany at the time. He encouraged Plaumann to deal with the Egyptian papyrus documents .

In his dissertation, Plaumann examined the development of the status of the city of Ptolemais in the Greco-Roman period. The result of his investigations was an extensive monographic representation, which was honored long after its publication.

In the years after his doctorate (1910), Plaumann served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian army and then got a job as a research assistant at the papyrus collection of the Royal Museums in Berlin . During the following years he published several papyrological and historical studies as well as numerous articles for the real encyclopedia of classical antiquity .

When the First World War broke out , Plaumann, lieutenant in the reserve, volunteered. He was used on the Western Front. Plaumann also continued his scientific work in the field: he read proofs for the introduction to papyrus studies by his friend Wilhelm Schubart (published in May 1918) and worked on a study of the office of the Idios Logos. But before the end of the war, Plaumann fell on October 23, 1918, in the last weeks of the war.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ptolemais in Upper Egypt. A contribution to the history of Hellenism in Egypt . Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1910. Reprinted by Ann Arbor 1980.
  • The so-called Senatusconsultum ultimum, the quasi-dictatorship of the later Roman Republic . In: Klio . Volume 13 (1913), pp. 321-386.
  • Greek papyri from the Gradenwitz Collection . Winter, Heidelberg 1914.
  • The Idioslogos. Investigation of the financial management of Egypt in the Hellenistic and Roman times . Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1919 (with an obituary by Wilhelm Schubart).

literature

  • Historical society in Berlin (ed.): Messages from historical literature . Volume 46-47 (1918), pp. 6ff.
  • Obituary for Dr. Gerhard Plaumann . In: Official reports from the royal art collections . Volume 40, 1918 (1919), p. 65
  • Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg : German ancient scholars in the First World War : In: Trude Maurer (Hrsg.): Colleagues, fellow students, fighters. European universities in the First World War . Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08925-8 , pp. 239-254 (on Plaumann especially p. 240).

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personal data
SURNAME Plaumann, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plaumann, Gerhard Walter Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papyrologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Döhrings , Rastenburg district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1918