István Hahn

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István Hahn (born on March 28, 1913 in Budapest ; died on July 26, 1984 there ) was a Hungarian ancient historian and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Hahn graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1935 to become a secondary school teacher in Latin, Greek and history , and received his doctorate. His dissertation topic was " The creation of the world in the Islamic legends ". In 1937 he passed his rabbi exam at the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest. From 1937 to 1942 he worked as a teacher at the educational institute of the Israelite community in Pest . In 1941 he became a teacher at the rabbinical seminary, where he taught Jewish philosophy. During this time Hahn researched and published on the relationship between the religions of antiquity, especially between Judaism and Greek and Roman antiquity.

In 1948 Hahn was appointed rector of the Ignác Goldziher grammar school in the Józsefváros district of Budapest . From 1949 to 1951 he was then deputy rector of the Fazekas-Gimnázium . From 1951 he was briefly a teacher at the vocational school Zalka Máté before he became deputy rector of the teachers' college in Budapest in 1952, which is now part of the West Hungarian University . From 1955 to 1957 he was head of the history department there. In 1953 he successfully completed his Russian studies at his old alma mater .

In 1957 Hahn became a research assistant at the Faculty of Greco-Roman History at Eötvös Loránd University, in 1959 he became a private lecturer and in 1963 a full professor. In 1983 he retired. At the same time he headed the Faculty of History at the University of Science in Szeged from 1959 to 1962 . He taught history of the ancient Orient, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire. Hahn dealt intensively with the history of religions, with ancient urban culture and the polis , military science, the Mycenaean culture and the democracy of Athens . He also dealt intensively with Greek and Roman mythology . To better understand the nature of the ancient empires, he examined the writings of ancient historians such as Herodotus , Thucydides, and Appian .

In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in 1982 a full member.

The urn containing Hahn's remains was buried in the Farkasréti cemetery.

Works

  • A világteremtés az iszlám legendáiban . Budapest 1935.
  • with Adolf Fisch: A felavatott ifjú Könyve . Budapest 1938.
  • Zsidó ünnepek és népszokások . Budapest 1940.
  • A fény ünnepe (Hanukkah) . Budapest 1941.
  • A zsidó nép története a babiloni fogságtól napjainkig . Budapest 1947.
  • Történelem. A középiskolai általános továbbképzés és oktatókáderképzés tananyaga. Ősközösség, ókor, korai középkor . Budapest 1953.
  • Az időszámítás története . Budapest 1960.
  • Az ókor története . Budapest 1967.
  • Istenek és népek . Budapest 1968. German: Götter und Völker . Corvina-Verlag, Budapest 1977, ISBN 963-13-0068-4 .
  • with Máté Györggyel: Carthage . Budapest 1972.
  • Világtörténet képekben . Budapest 1972.
  • Róma istenei . Budapest 1975.
  • with László Kákosy: Oikumené Studia ad historiam antiquam classicam et orientalem spectantia . 4 volumes, Budapest 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983.
  • Hitvilág és történelem. Tanulmányok az ókori vallások köréből . Budapest 1982.
  • Pál Engel, Péter Hanák, Géza Komoróczy: Világtörténet évszámokban 1789-ig / összeáll . Budapest 1982, ISBN 963-281-054-6 .
  • Naptári rendszerek és az időszámítás . Budapest 1983. German: sunny days - lunar years: via calendar systems and time calculation . Akzent series Volume 83. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-332-00267-8 .
  • Álomfejtés és társadalmi valóság. Artemidorus Daldianus mint társadalomtörténeti forrás . Budapest 1985. German: Interpretation of dreams and social reality: Artemidorus Daldianus as a source of social history . Universitätsverlag Konstanz 1992, ISBN 3-87940-395-3 .
  • A próféták forradalma . Budapest 1998, ISBN 963-85697-8-6 .
  • Keresztények, zsidók az ókori Rómában . História, Budapest 2004.

Awards and honors

  • 1970: Academy Award
  • 1974: Apáczai Csere János Prize
  • The Faculty of Ancient History at Eötvös Loránd University has been awarding the István Hahn lectureship since 2008 .
  • In 2013 the “Non Omnis Moriar” foundation organized a two-day conference in honor of Hahn's 100th birthday.

literature

  • Györgý Németh (ed.): Commemorative publication for István Hahn . Chairs for History at Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest 1993.
  • Berend T. Iván: Hahn István . Magyar Tudomány, Budapest 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tamás Turán, Carsten Wilke (ed.): Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The 'Science of Judaism' between East and West . (= European-Jewish study contributions , Volume 14). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, p. 51
  2. ^ Hermann Imre Schmelzer: Hahn Istvánra emlékezve , Szombat, December 23, 2015
  3. ^ Hahn, István . In: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon. 1000–1990 , Volume III (H – K), Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 2002, ISBN 963-547-759-7 , p. 25f ( online )
  4. ↑ Invitation and program , International Conference in Memory of István Hahn, Association internationale d'épigraphie grecque et latine, accessed on December 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian ancient historian and professor at the Eötvös Loránd University
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1984
Place of death Budapest