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Ingomar Weiler (2019)

Ingomar Weiler (born April 28, 1938 in Treglwang , Styria ) is an Austrian ancient historian .

Ingomar Weiler graduated from the teacher training college in Salzburg. He completed the subsequent teacher training course in history and physical education in Graz in 1962 with a dissertation from Erich Swoboda on Pannonia in the Diocletian period. Then Weiler worked as an assistant at the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck . In 1969 a one-year research stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University followed . In 1972 he completed his habilitation in Innsbruck on the subject of The Agon in Myth. On the attitude of the Greeks to competition . In 1976 he accepted the position of full professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , where he worked as a professor at the Institute for Ancient History and Antiquity until his retirement in March 2002. In 1981, he turned down a temporary call to the University of Innsbruck to succeed Franz Hampl . In 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Mainz .

In his research, Weiler combines sport with the topic of ancient history. This focus primarily includes the problems surrounding the origin of sport, criticism of the Olympics, spectator behavior and didactic tasks. In addition, he dealt with the problem of the release of slaves.

Fonts

Monographs

The presence of antiquity. Selected writings on the history, culture and reception of antiquity. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-18115-8 .
The end of slave status in ancient times. A contribution to comparative social history (= research on ancient slavery. Vol. 36). Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08208-5 .
The sport among the peoples of the ancient world. An introduction. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1981, ISBN 3-534-07056-9 (2nd, revised edition. (= WB-Forum 6). Ibid. 1988).
Greek history. Introduction, source studies, bibliography. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-06358-9 (2nd, reviewed and expanded edition, ibid. 1988).
Basic concepts and personalities of the history of physical exercises (= study texts on physical education. Vol. 15). Inn-Verlag, Innsbruck 1975, ISBN 3-85123-025-6 .
The agon in the myth. To the attitude of the Greeks to competition (= impulses of research. Vol. 16). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1974, ISBN 3-534-06821-1 (also: Innsbruck, Univ., Philos. Fac., Habil.-Schr. 1971).

Editorships

Fundamentals of Ancient Political History. Böhlau, Wien et al. 1990, ISBN 3-205-05335-4 (2nd, improved edition, ibid 1995, ISBN 3-205-98357-2 ).
Social marginalized groups and outsiders in antiquity. Lectures from the “Symposium on Social Fringe Groups and Ancient Social Policy” in Graz (September 21-23, 1987). Leykam, Graz 1988, ISBN 3-7011-7211-0 .

literature

Peter Mauritsch, Christoph Ulf : Culture (s) - Forms of the everyday in antiquity. Festschrift for Ingomar Weiler on his 75th birthday (= Nummi et Litterae. Vol. 7th General Scientific Series. Vol. 33). 2 parts. Leykam, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7011-0275-4 .
Peter Mauritsch, Werner Petermandl, Robert Rollinger and Christoph Ulf with the collaboration of Irene Huber (ed.): Antike Lebenswelten. Constancy, change, effectiveness. Festschrift for Ingomar Weiler on his 70th birthday. (= Philippika. Classical Studies. Vol. 25). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05761-5 .
Karl Christ : Klio's changes. The German ancient history from neo-humanism to the present. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54181-X , pp. 141f., 145-147, 159f. (with extensive bibliographical notes).
Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini (Ed.): Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Vol. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , pp. 443f.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hamlet, Ingomar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Treglwang