Gerhard Winkler (epigraphist)

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Gerhard Winkler (born February 2, 1935 in Vienna ; † November 19, 2012 ibid) was an Austrian classical philologist , ancient historian and epigraphist .

Life

Gerhard Winkler received his doctorate in 1958 at the University of Vienna with the thesis The Reichsbeamten von Noricum and their staff . He then embarked on a career as a high school teacher, later he was director of the upper secondary high school in Perg until his retirement . In addition, Winkler continued to work scientifically. His processing of the Roman milestones Noricum within the framework of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum was of particular importance . Winkler dealt with Upper Austrian history in the area of ​​ancient history and epigraphy. As a classical philologist, in the tradition of Roderich König, he obtained a German-language complete edition of the Naturalis Historia of the elder Pliny . Winkler received the title of Hofrat and was Vice President of the Upper Austrian Museum Administration and Chairman of the Society for Regional Studies.

On his 70th birthday a volume of the yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association was published in 2004 as a commemorative publication and on his 75th birthday, the anthology Varia Norica. Collected essays 1969–2009. In 1999 Winkler was awarded the Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria and in 2000 the Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for the humanities.

Gerhard Winkler had been a member of the K.Ö.HV Pannonia Wien and founding member of the K.Ö.St.V. Severina Linz, both in ÖCV . During his activity as a grammar school teacher he became an honorary member of the MKV connections K.Ö.St.V. Sternstein in Bad Leonfelden and the K.Ö.St.V. Riedmark in Perg . He was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof .

Fonts (selection)

  • The imperial officials of Noricum and their staff until the end of Roman rule (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 261, Abh. 2). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1969.
  • The Roman stone inscriptions from Lauriacum. Museum Association Lauriacum, Enns 1971.
  • The Romans in Upper Austria. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1975, ISBN 3-85214-106-0 .
  • The Roman roads and milestones in Noricum - Austria (= Small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of Southwest Germany. No. 35; also Itinera Romana. Volume 6). Society for Prehistory and Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, Stuttgart 1985.
  • with Anne Kolb , Gerold Walser , Manfred G. Schmidt , Ulrike Jansen: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . XVII: Miliaria provinciarum Raetiae et Norici. Pars IV: Illyricum et provinciae Europae Graecae. Fasc. I: Miliaria provinciarum Raetiae et Norici. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005.
  • Publisher: Museum Lauriacum permanent collection “Roman times” Research in Lauriacum (= research in Lauriacum. Volume 12 = special volume 1, 2 volumes). Mayer, Klosterneuburg and Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901025-65-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Winkler: Varia Norica Collected Essays 1969 to 2009 in the series Research in Lauricum (special volume 2, 434 pages)
  2. ↑ Culture medal presented by the state of Upper Austria , in: Kirchenzeitung im Netz , Diözese Linz, December 21, 1999 ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Upper Austrian Museum Association. Society for regional studies. Association report for the year 2001. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 147, 2, Linz 2001 ( PDF (571 kB) on ZOBODAT ).
  4. ^ Grave site Gerhard Franz Maria Winkler , Vienna, Döblinger Friedhof, Group 36, Row 3, No. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian high school director, ancient historian, classical philologist and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2012
Place of death Vienna , Austria