Helmut Kalex

Helmut Kalex (born November 24, 1931 in Ruhland OL ; † January 6, 2011 in Leipzig ) was a German ancient historian .

Helmut Kalex passed his Abitur in 1950 and then studied history and geography at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig (KMU) until 1954 . He finished his studies with the state examination . This was followed by a scheduled academic traineeship at the Department of Ancient History at the Historical Institute of SMEs and from 1957 to 1959 a scientific assistantship at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences . He received his doctorate in 1960 on the subject of On some problems of slavery in Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt , reviewers were Franz Altheim and Wolfgang Müller . After completing his doctorate, he became a research assistant at the SME. In February 1969 Kalex became a university professor for the history of antiquity at the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig . The PhD B with a thesis on the topic of social differentiation and the development of the “barbaric” kingship among the Lombards was assessed in November 1982 by Rigobert Günther . In 1992 it was wound up.

Kalex participated in several major projects of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . For Johannes Irmscher's introduction to classical antiquity , he contributed the contributions of history and classical antiquity as well as history, methodology and didactics of teaching in ancient history . He also worked on the lexicon of antiquity published by Irmscher .

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. 329.