Hans Krummrey

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Hans Krummrey (born May 2, 1930 in Guben ; † January 18, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German epigraphist .

Life

Hans Krummrey received his doctorate in the summer of 1961 at the University of Halle with the work Interpretations of Latin verse inscriptions . He became an employee of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and from 1967 was for decades head of the working group of the major project at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology (ZIAGA) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and later of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . Even during the GDR period, he was able to continue his studies more or less unhindered and, unlike many other employees, was not employed in other major ZIAGA projects such as the cultural history of antiquity . He only contributed articles from his specialist field to the Lexicon of Antiquity , but otherwise devoted himself to the processing and editing of inscriptions .

Krummrey was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1988 he was awarded the Leibniz Medal of the City of Berlin for his services in the field of Latin inscription .

Krummrey died at the age of 87.

Fonts

  • Interpretations of Latin verse inscriptions. Hall 1961.
  • with Theun-Matthias Schmidt : Two Roman sarcophagi (= from the collections of the Winckelmann Society in Stendal. Volume 2). Winckelmann Society, Stendal 1988.

literature

  • Isolde Stark : report and documentation. In this. (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the ancient history in the GDR. Contributions to the conference from November 21 to 23, 2002 in Halle / Saale. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08457-6 , p. 288.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When stars start talking . In: Neue Zeit , August 30, 1988, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice on the main page of the job. (No longer available online.) In: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, archived from the original on March 21, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Krummrey, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2018
Place of death Berlin