Heinrich Chantraine

Heinrich Chantraine (born February 10, 1929 in Betzdorf ; † December 9, 2002 in Mossautal ) was a German ancient historian and numismatist .

Heinrich Chantraine studied history and classical philology at the University of Mainz after graduating from high school in 1948 . In 1955 he was studied by Hans Ulrich Instinsky in Mainz with investigations into Roman history at the end of the 2nd century BC. . Chr doctorate. Chantraine worked from 1957 to 1958 on the project “Fund coins from the Roman era in Germany” led by Konrad Kraft (the volume he published on found coins in the Palatinate was published in 1965) and was then an assistant at the University of Mainz, where he joined in 1965 habilitated in a paper on freedmen and slaves in the service of the Roman emperors . In 1967 Heinrich Chantraine was appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim . He was dean and vice dean, from 1970 to 1973 Vice-Rector and from 1986 to 1988 Rector of the University of Mannheim. In 1995 he retired.

The main research areas of Chantraines were late antiquity , Roman social history and auxiliary sciences, especially numismatics and metrology . He has published numerous scientific papers. From 1988 he was a corresponding member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and a longstanding member of the Ekkehard Foundation's board of trustees.

literature

• Heinz Heinen : Obituary for Heinrich Chantraine. In: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Yearbook. Volume 54/55, 2003/2004, pp. 145-147.
• Stefan Rebenich : Chantraine, Heinrich. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 222 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Chantraine in the catalog of the German National Library