Hans Ulrich Instinsky

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Grave of Hans Ulrich Instinsky in the main cemetery in Mainz

Hans Ulrich Instinsky (born March 16, 1907 in Freiberg in Saxony; † June 30, 1973 in Mainz ) was a German ancient historian .

At the humanistic grammar school, Hans Ulrich Instinsky was significantly influenced by Karl Buchheim . After graduating from high school in Freiberg in 1926, Hans Ulrich Instinsky studied history, classical philology and German at the University of Munich for three semesters . However, under the influence of Helmut Berve , he decided on the ancient history and went there with him in 1927, when Berve was called to Leipzig . In Leipzig he studied classical philology and classical archeology for two semesters. This was followed by a further six semesters at the University of Freiburg and the doctorate there in 1931 with Walther Kolbe with the thesis The writing time of the writing of the State of Athens . He broke off a planned academic career because of the global economic crisis and worked as a journalist for five years.

In 1936 Instinsky took over the publication of the Roman milestone inscriptions for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum as a scientific assistant at the Berlin Academy of Sciences . His rejection of National Socialism resulting from his Christian faith hampered his academic career. Due to illness, he only had to do military service for a short time. Instinsky's habilitation at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin was prevented by Wilhelm Weber ; Instead, he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main in 1942 with Matthias Gelzer on the subject of Emperor and Eternity and gave his trial lecture in March 1943 in Heidelberg through the mediation of his college friend Hans Schaefer . The Berlin Faculty of Philosophy, however, refused to transfer the venia legendi to him. Instead, Instinsky took over a professorship in Hamburg in 1943 through Bruno Snell's mediation . In the same year he and Herbert Nesselhauf refused to be named as the editor of the third volume of the new edition of Prosopographia Imperii Romani instead of Arthur Stein and Edmund Groag, who had been dismissed as Jews . Instinsky received a lectureship in Hamburg in February 1945 and stayed there until 1948. That year he accepted a professorship for Ancient History at the University of Mainz . He turned down appointments to Würzburg, Berlin and Bochum. Since 1969 Instinsky was a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature .

He published over 150 titles. The focus was earlier on Hellenism, the Roman Principal Period and late antiquity. Instinsky dealt intensively with pagan antiquity and Christianity in his works and research. He was also active in the epigraphic and numismatic field.

He was married. The marriage had six children. He died of heart failure in June 1973.

Fonts

  • The late Roman silver treasure trove from Kaiseraugst (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born in 1971, No. 5, ISSN  0002-2977 ). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature ao, Mainz ao 1971.
  • Formalities in the correspondence of Pliny with Emperor Trajan (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1969, No. 12). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature and others, Mainz and others 1969.
  • Marcus Aurelius Prosenes - freedman and Christian at the imperial court (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born in 1964, No. 3). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, among others, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1964.
  • The old church and the salvation of the state. Kösel, Munich 1963.
  • The seal of the emperor Augustus. A chapter on the history and symbolism of the ancient ruler's seal (= German contributions to ancient studies. Vol. 16, ZDB -ID 525848-0 ). Grimm, Baden-Baden 1962.
  • The year of the birth of Christ. A historical study. Kösel, Munich 1957.
  • Bishop's chair and imperial throne. Kösel, Munich 1955.
  • Security as a political problem of the Roman Empire (= German contributions to classical studies. Vol. 3). Publishing house for art and science, Baden-Baden 1952.
  • Alexander the Great on the Hellespont. Küpper, Godesberg 1949.
  • Emperor and Eternity. In: Hermes . Vol. 27, H. 3/4, 1942, pp. 313-355 (Frankfurt am Main, University, habilitation paper, 1942).
  • The time of writing by the State of Athens. Mauckisch, Freiberg in Sachsen 1933 (Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1931).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ To the following Stefan Rebenich : Between adaptation and resistance? The Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1933 to 1945. In: Beat Näf (Hrsg.): Antiquity and Ancient Studies in the Time of Fascism and National Socialism (= Texts and Studies in the History of Humanities. Vol. 1). Edition Cicero, Mandelbachtal et al. 2001, ISBN 3-934285-46-5 , pp. 203–244, here: pp. 220 f. ( online ).
  2. ^ Karl Christ : Klios Wandlungen. The German ancient history from neo-humanism to the present. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54181-X , pp. 92-93.
  3. ^ Walter Schmitthenner: Nekrolog Hans Ulrich Instinsky †. In: Historische Zeitschrift 218 (1974), pp. 781–784, here: p. 782.
personal data
SURNAME Instinsky, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1973
Place of death Mainz