Horst Braunert

Horst Braunert at a student sit-in for the handover of the CAU rectorate (1968)

Horst Braunert (born March 11, 1922 in Görlitz , † August 19, 1976 in Kiel ) was a German ancient historian .

After military service and brief imprisonment, Horst Braunert began studying classical philology, history, archeology, Egyptology and ancient legal history in Bonn from 1945. Even before his doctorate, he presented the extensive and fundamental essay Foreign Guests at the Ptolemaic Court , in which, based on the dating of the inscriptions on the Hâdra vases , extensive historical statements about the early Ptolemaic Empire are obtained. He received his doctorate from Friedrich Oertel on the population history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. In 1951 Braunert became an assistant at the ancient history seminar in Bonn. In his habilitation thesis from 1959 he dealt with the internal population movement in Egypt.

In 1962, at the instigation of Friedrich Vittinghoff , Braunert was appointed as an adjunct professor and scientific adviser to Kiel and a year later Vittinghoff's successor as full professor of ancient history and director of the Institute for Classical Antiquity. Braunert was elected dean and rector (1968/69) in Kiel. He turned down calls to Tübingen (1966) and Cologne (1974). He died unexpectedly in 1976 at the age of 54. His successor was Frank Kolb .

Braunert's main research interests were the ancient legal and social history, papyrology , the report of deeds ( Res gestae ) of Augustus and Greek history in classical and Hellenistic periods. He was co-editor of Hermes magazine . In terms of science policy, Braunert was active in the West German Rectors' Conference and in the Science Council. Michael Zahrnt is one of his academic students .

Fonts

Collections of articles

• Kurt Telschow, Michael Zahrnt (Hrsg.): Politics, law and society in the Greco-Roman antiquity. Collected essays and speeches (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 26). Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-911710-5 , pp. 342-345 (list of publications).

Monographs

• Internal migration. Studies on the social history of Egypt in the Ptolemaic and Imperial times (= Bonn historical research. Vol. 26, ZDB -ID 500545-0 ). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1964 (at the same time: Bonn, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1959).

Editorships

• Studies in papyrology and ancient economic history. Dedicated to Friedrich Oertel on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Habelt, Bonn 1964.

literature

• Dieter Timpe : Horst Braunert † . In: Gnomon . Vol. 49, 1977, pp. 634-637.
• Braunert, Horst. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1970. Volume 1: A – M. 11th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1970, ISSN  1616-8399 , p. 320.
• Braunert, Horst. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 2: Brann - Einslin. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-25032-0 , p. 25.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Braunert in the catalog of the German National Library