Gustav Heinrich Wilmanns

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Gustav Heinrich Klemens Wilmanns (born December 30, 1845 in Jüterbog , † March 6, 1878 in Baden-Baden ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

biography

From 1864 Wilmanns studied classical philology and history at the Berlin Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität with Johann Gustav Droysen , Moriz Haupt and Theodor Mommsen, among others . At the end of 1867 he received his doctorate with the thesis De sacerdotiorum pp R. quodam genere . In addition, Wilmanns passed the teacher examination and was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Dorpat , now Tartu in Estonia, during his probationary year at the Cöllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin . Shortly before, epigraphic studies had taken him to Styria at Theodor Mommsen's suggestion .

In 1872 Wilmanns received a call to the University of Strasbourg , where he initially worked as an associate professor and from 1876 as a full professor.

In the winter of 1873/1874 he went on a research trip that took him via Italy and Malta to Tunis and from there to numerous places in Roman North Africa. After a second stay in Algeria , in 1876/1877 he had collected over 11,000 stone inscriptions, which were to form the basis for his volume of North African inscriptions as part of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , which was commissioned by the Berlin Academy of Sciences .

Weakened by the rigors of his travels, he began again in 1877 with lectures at the university, but died a short time later. After his death, the CIL volume Inscriptiones Africae latinae was edited in two parts by Theodor Mommsen in 1881 .

family

Gustav Wilmanns came from a family of merchants and scholars. His father Franz Wilmanns (1799–1885) was a building officer in the Prussian civil service and had worked temporarily under Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The lawyer and member of the Reichstag Karl Wilmanns and the Germanist Wilhelm Wilmanns were his brothers. The psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns and the chemist Gustav Wilmanns were sons of his brother Franz Rudolph Florenz. The son of his brother Hilmar Franz Günther was the historian and history didactician Ernst Wilmanns . Gustav Wilmanns had no offspring.

Fonts

  • De sacerdotiorum ppR quodam genere. Praecedit quaestio: De Laurento et Lavinio oppidis. Feicht, Berlin 1867 (phil. Diss., University of Berlin, 1867; digitized in the Google book search; with Latin vita).
  • Exempla inscriptionvm latinarum in usum praecipue academicum. Composuit Gvstavus Wilmanns. 2 volumes. Weidmann, Berlin 1873 ( digitized version ).
  • The Roman camp city of Africa. In: Commentationes Philologae in honorem Theodori Mommseni. Scripserunt amici. Weidmann, Berlin 1877, pp. 190-212 ( digitized version ).
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . Vol. 8: Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Collegit Gustavus Wilmanns. Reimer, Berlin 1881 ( digital copies ; preface with necrology to Wilmanns ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Direct lineage from Peter Gustav Wilmanns ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wilmanns, Gustav Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilmanns, Gustavus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Jueterbog
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1878
Place of death Baden-Baden