Heinz Berthold

Heinz Berthold (born September 4, 1927 in Leipzig ; † September 27, 2017 ) was a German historian of religion who primarily dealt with late antiquity .

Heinz Berthold passed his Abitur in 1946 and studied Classical Philology , Ancient History , Classical Archeology and German Studies at the University of Leipzig from 1947 to 1951 . In 1951 he took his diploma and in 1952 became a research assistant at the Institute for Late Antique Religious History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). In December 1959, he did his doctorate under Franz Dornseiff and Arno Mauersberger with a thesis on Aulus Gellius. Breakdown and selection of its subjects . In June 1975, took place Promotion B at Horst Gericke , Peter Nagel and Johannes Irmscher with Scripture texts and studies on Makarios / Symeon. Early Christian Literature as a Source for Social History . Since September 1988, Berthold has been an associate professor for late antique religious history and patristics at the theology section of the MLU . In 1992 he retired. His edition of Senecas Von der Seelenruhe has reached a double-digit print run in various publishers in East and West Germany and after reunification, also from the happy life of the same author experienced several editions. With the Bulgarian classical philologist Veselin Beševliev , he published the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea in nine volumes. There were also editions of the works of Makarios and Aulus Gellius .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 131.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Berthold in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary