Helga Koepstein
Helga Köpstein (* as Helga Schicker on January 22, 1926 in Berlin ) is a German Byzantinist .
Life
Helga Köpstein graduated from high school in 1944 and studied classical philology and history from 1946 to 1951 at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). As early as 1948/49 she was an assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the HUB, and from 1949 to 1951 a research assistant. She passed the state examination in 1951. After that she was a research assistant at the Commission for Late Antique Religious History of the German Academy of Sciences until 1955 . In 1955 Helga Köpstein became a research assistant in the Byzantine Studies group at the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquity , where she also headed the area of Greek history. The doctorate took place in April 1964 at the HUB with a thesis on slavery in the last two and a half centuries of the Byzantine Empire. Philological-historical investigation . After completing her doctorate, Helga Köpstein became head of the Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium Department at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology (ZIAGA) of the GDR Academy of Sciences . In June 1978 he received his PhD B at the academy on the topic of the change in agricultural conditions in Byzantium from the 6th to the 8th century . In September 1980 she was appointed professor at the academy, and from 1981 to 1984 she headed the research area Greco-Roman Antiquity at ZIAGA. In 1986 Helga Köpstein retired. Alongside Friedhelm Winkelmann and Johannes Irmscher , Helga Köpstein was probably the most important Byzantinist in the GDR.
Helga Köpstein was married to the historian Horst Köpstein .
Fonts
- On slavery in the outgoing Byzantium. Philological-historical investigation. Academy, Berlin 1966 (Berlin Byzantine Works, Vol. 34)
- Studies of the 7th century in Byzantium. Problems of the formation of feudalism. (Ed. With Friedhelm Winkelmann ), Academy, Berlin 1976 (Berlin Byzantine Works, Vol. 47)
- Special features of the Byzantine feudal development. A collection of contributions from the early centuries. (Ed.), Academy, Berlin 1983 (Berlin Byzantine Works, Vol. 50)
- Studies of the 8th and 9th centuries in Byzantium. (Ed. With Friedhelm Winkelmann), Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 1976 (Berlin Byzantine Works, Vol. 51)
- Thomas. Rebel and counter-emperor in Byzantium. ( Illustrated historical booklets : Booklet 39), Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1986, DNB 860430723 .
- The Treptower Memorial. Berlin 1987
- The Soviet memorials in Berlin. Berlin 2006
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. 354.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koepstein, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schicker, Helga (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Byzantinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |