Heinrich Swoboda (ancient historian)

Heinrich Swoboda (born October 15, 1856 in Vienna , † June 13, 1926 in Prague ) was an Austrian ancient historian .

Life

Swoboda came from a family of officers and attended the Benedictine collegiate high school in Kremsmünster until 1874 . After graduating from high school, he began to study history at the University of Vienna , among others with Max Büdinger , Otto Benndorf and Otto Hirschfeld . Swoboda received his doctorate in Vienna in 1879 and went to Berlin University for further studies , where he became a student of Theodor Mommsen and Adolf Kirchhoff . In the winter of 1881/1882 he stayed in Athens and further developed his epigraphic knowledge under the direction of Ulrich Köhler .

In 1883 Swoboda received his habilitation at the University of Prague on the basis of his first work on Thucydides and other work, and from April 1884 taught as a private lecturer. He spent the winter of 1886/87 in Rome. In 1891 he became professor for ancient history in Prague, in 1899 professor for Greek antiquity and epigraphy, and also co-director (1911 director) of the seminar for classical archeology and epigraphy. Swoboda headed ancient history research at the University of Prague, of which he was rector in 1914/15, beyond the collapse of old Austria until his death in 1926. He declined calls to the universities of Halle and Graz.

Swoboda's research interests were Greek history and epigraphy , in particular state administration and constitutional law. His work applied, for example, to the Greek popular resolutions or the Athenaion politeia, which was newly found at the time and attributed to Aristotle . In 1902 he led an archaeological-epigraphic research trip through Asia Minor. Swoboda was a full member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Academy of Sciences in Vienna and Göttingen. He was also co-founder and managing director of the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Bohemia from 1891 to 1900 .

Fonts

• Thucydideic Source Studies , Innsbruck 1881.
• The tradition of the marathon battle , Vienna 1884.
• The Greek popular resolutions. Epigraphic studies . Teubner, Leipzig 1890 ( online ).
• To the documents of Pergamon . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 46, 1891 ( online ).
• The newly found writing of Aristotle from the State of Athens , Prague 1893.
• The Athenian Decrees in favor of the Sami , Prague 1893.
• Greek history . Göschen, Leipzig 1896 ( online ). 4th edition 1914. Revised reprint 1921.
• Contributions to Greek legal history . Böhlau, Weimar 1905 ( online ).
• Representation of individual states and interstate relations , in the Handbook of Classical Studies , in the Greek Political Science Department 4.1.1.2, Munich 1926, reprint Verlag Beck 1972.

literature

• Pavel Kolář: History at the German University in Prague 1882-1938 . In: Hans Lemberg (Hrsg.): Universities in national competition. On the history of Prague universities in the 19th and 20th centuries . Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56392-0 (publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Volume 86), pp. 95-114 (on Swoboda: pp. 91-92).
• Arthur Stein : Heinrich Swoboda. Born October 15, 1856, died June 13, 1926 . In: Conrad Bursian (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch für die Altertumswwissenschaft . Volume 48, 1928, pp. 115–144.
• Martina Pesditschek:  Swoboda, Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 85 f. (Direct links on p. 85 , p. 86 ).

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Swoboda  - Sources and full texts

• Doctoral act, archive of the University of Vienna, PH RA 154