Gert Audring

Gert Audring (born February 6, 1944 in Schrimm ) is a German ancient historian . He is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he works in the Philosophical Faculty at the Institute for History.

Life and accomplishments

Gert Audring studied history , English and Latin at the University of Potsdam and the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1969 he passed the state examination for scientific professions. From 1971 to 1991, Audring first worked as an employee, from 1986 as head of the Greco-Roman history department at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1973 he was with the work of the economic and social position of farmers in the polis Athens during the late 5th and 4th century. BC About doctorate , surveyors were Elisabeth Welskof and Heinz Kreißig . In 1985 he received his PhD B with the thesis on the structure of the territory of the Greek poleis in archaic times . In 1988 he was appointed professor. After the end of the GDR , Audring was able to continue his work as part of the scientist integration program from 1992 . Subsequently, he found a job with a project at the German Research Foundation , the indexing and online publication of important correspondence from the estate of Eduard Meyer .

Gert Audring's main areas of work are Greek economic and social history as well as the history of science and science . From 1988 to 1991 he was editor-in-chief of the ancient historical journal Klio . Audring also worked as a translator for Xenophon . In 2008 he was named among the lecturers at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Fonts

On the economic and social position of the peasant in the Athens polis during the late 5th and 4th centuries BC Dissertation A [Dissertation], Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1973.
On the economic and social situation of the Attic farmers in the late 5th and 4th century BC In: Studies on the Athenian social structure and Roman economic policy in Asia Minor (= yearbook for economic history. Special volume 1977). Berlin 1977, pp. 9-86.
On the structure of the territory of the Greek poleis in archaic times (according to the written sources) (= writings and sources of the Old World. Volume 29). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000699-4 (at the same time dissertation B [habilitation thesis], Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1985).
as editor: Eduard Meyer - Victor Ehrenberg. An exchange of letters, 1914 - 1930. Akademie-Verlag / Teubner, Berlin / Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-519-07421-4 & ISBN 3-05-000975-6 .
Xenophon. Economic writings. Greek and German by Gert Audring (= writings and sources of the Old World. Volume 38). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-001855-0 .
as editor: Ulrich Wilcken. Letters to Eduard Meyer 1889–1930 (= Xenia. Konstanz Lectures on Ancient History and Research. Volume 36). Constance 1994.
as editor: Scholars' everyday life. The correspondence between Eduard Meyer and Georg Wissowa (1890–1927). Weidmann, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-615-00216-4 .
with Kai Brodersen : OIKONOMIKA. Sources on economic theory of ancient Greece. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21725-0 .
as editor: Eduard Meyer. History of Egyptian and Babylonian-Assyrian literature (1879). A documentation. Speyer 2009, ISBN 978-3-93952-606-3 .

literature

Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 109.

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Audring, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schrimm

[1] Gert Audring at the Humboldt University in Berlin

[2] Course catalog of the Institute for History of the Humboldt University