Hatto H. Schmitt
Hatto Herbert Schmitt (born February 15, 1930 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German ancient historian .
Life
Hatto H. Schmitt studied history and ancient studies in Munich (among others with Hermann Bengtson ) and Tübingen. In 1955 he received his doctorate from Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in Munich with a thesis on Rome and Rhodes and completed his habilitation in 1963 in Würzburg, where he had followed Bengtson, with studies on the history of Antiochus the Great and his time . In 1964 he went to the Saarland University as an adjunct professor , and in 1965 as a full professor to Bonn, where he also became rector a few years later. In 1978 he returned to Munich as Bengtson's successor and was retired there in 1998.
The main focus of Schmitt's research is Greek history, especially Hellenism , on which he and Ernst Vogt published the Small Dictionary of Hellenism (in the last edition Small Lexicon of Hellenism ) and the Lexicon of Hellenism . He was involved in Bengtson's work on the ancient treaties and published a volume in 1969 with the treaties from 338 to 200 BC. Chr. Out.
From September 1973 on, Hatto H. Schmitt was, together with Thomas Nipperdey and Michael Zöller, one of the three chairmen of the Federal Freedom of Science (BFW) founded in 1970 , an association for educational policy in response to the student movement .
literature
- Kai Brodersen : Hatto H. Schmitt. Professor in Munich April 1, 1978 to March 31, 1998 . In: Jakob Seibert (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901-2001) . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002, pp. 174-182, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hatto H. Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
First chair: Arnold Dietrich Schaefer (1865–1883) | Heinrich Nissen (1884–1911) | Ulrich Wilcken (1912–1915) | Conrad Cichorius (1916–1928) | Friedrich Oertel (1929–1952) | Johannes Straub (1953–1982) | Klaus Rosen (1982–2002) | Winfried Schmitz (since 2003)
Second chair: Hatto H. Schmitt (1965–1978) | Gerhard Wirth (1979–1991) | Hartmut Galsterer (1992-2004) | Konrad Vössing (since 2005)
First chair: Robert Pöhlmann (1901–1914) | Ulrich Wilcken (1915–1917) | Walter Otto (1918–1941) | Helmut Berve (1943–1945) | Alexander Schenk Count von Stauffenberg (1948–1964) | Hermann Bengtson (1966–1977) | Hatto H. Schmitt (1978-1998) | Martin Zimmermann (since 2002)
Second chair: Siegfried Lauffer (1963–1979) | Christian Meier (1981-1997) | Jens-Uwe Krause (since 1998)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitt, Hatto H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmitt, Hatto Herbert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |