Hans-Georg Kolbe

Hans-Georg Kolbe (born October 7, 1925 in Weimar , † 2005 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

Life

Hans-Georg Kolbe attended the Princely School in Grimma from 1938 . From the winter semester 1946/47 to the winter semester 1950/51 he studied classical philology and history at the University of Leipzig , especially with Wilhelm Schubart . From May 1951 he was a research assistant at the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1958 he received his doctorate under Günther Klaffenbach at the University of Berlin . After working at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , he had been a seconded advisor to the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute since 1963 . After Helmut Schläger's accidental death in 1970, he became Second Director of the Rome Department and remained so until his retirement on October 31, 1990.

Kolbe is primarily concerned with Roman epigraphy .

His son is the politician Manfred Kolbe (* 1953).

Publications (selection)

• The governors of Numidia from Gaul to Constantine (268–320) (= Vestigia 4). CH Beck, Munich 1962 (dissertation, with curriculum vitae).

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann, Theodor Kraus: Department Rome . In: Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute 1929 to 1979 . Zabern, Mainz 1979, pp. 1–39, here p. 32.
• Archäologischer Anzeiger 2006/2, p. 148 (death notification).