Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum

Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum (born March 14, 1939 in Berlin ; † November 30, 2004 in Tübingen ) was a German ancient historian .

Hildegard Temporini graduated from high school in 1958 in Frankfurt. She studied Latin, history and classical archeology in Frankfurt and from 1959/60 Tübingen . She received her doctorate from Joseph Vogt in Tübingen in 1966/67 with an ancient history dissertation on The Women at the Court of Trajan . Her habilitation with her thesis on historical and archaeological studies on the succession arrangements in the Roman Empire also took place in Tübingen in 1975, making her the first female historian at the university to do a habilitation. From 1977 to 2004 she taught as a professor of ancient history at the University of Tübingen.

Temporini's research focuses on the Roman Empire , the history of women in antiquity and the relationship between women and the politics and culture of the Roman Empire. From 1972 to 2004 she was co-editor of the series Rise and Fall of the Roman World and from 1984 to 2004 (co-) editor of the journal Historia . Her anthology, published in 2002, Die Kaiserinnen Roms. From Livia to Theodora is considered to be the authoritative handbook for women at the Roman imperial court. Temporini was married to the international lawyer Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The women at Trajan's court. A contribution to the position of the Augustae in the Principate. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1978. ISBN 3-11-002297-4 .

Editorships

• first alone, later together with Wolfgang Haase : The rise and fall of the Roman world. History and culture of Rome as reflected in recent research (ANRW). de Gruyter, Berlin 1972 ff.
• The empresses of Rome. From Livia to Theodora. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49513-3 .

literature

• Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto : Temporini-Countess Vitzthum, Hildegard. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1217 f.
• Heinz Heinen : Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum, 1939–2004. In: Historia . Volume 54, 2005 pp. II-IV.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary by Mischa Meier ( memento of July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Tübinger Universitäts-Nachrichten No. 120 of February 20, 2005 (accessed on September 16, 2012)