Helmut Freis

Helmut Freis (born July 29, 1935 in Merchweiler ; † August 3, 2002 in Sulzbach ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

From 1955 he studied history and classical philology with Jacques Moreau at Saarland University , passed the 1st state examination in history and Latin in Saarbrücken in February 1961 and was also given the first comprehensive study in Saarbrücken on July 9, 1962 the Cohortes urbanae and the grade summa cum laude for Dr. phil. PhD. After working in school he took on a permanent teaching position at the University of Saarland in the "Ancient History" department from 1966 and was retired as academic director in 2000 .

In addition to the Greco-Roman world and the Roman Empire, the focus of Freis' numerous works was the history of the Saar-Moselle region, which was then populated by mediomatricians and Treverians .

Fonts (selection)

• The cohortes urbanae . Dissertation, Saarbrücken 1962 (on the Roman city police established under Augustus in Rome and Lyon and since Vespasian in Carthage).
• Historical inscriptions on the Roman Empire from Augustus to Constantine . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1984, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3-534-08586-8 .
• The Saarland in Roman times . Institute for Regional Studies, Saarbrücken 1991, ISBN 3-923877-51-X .

literature

• Klaus Martin Girardet : The country's history is poorer without him . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , Saarbrücken, September 10, 2002.
• Wolfgang Müller: Obituary Helmut Freis . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region , 50/51, Saarbrücken 2002/2003, pp. 319–322.

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Freis in the catalog of the German National Library