Jürgen Deininger

Jürgen Rolf Deininger (born June 10, 1937 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † April 14, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German ancient historian .

The son of a Swabian merchant family graduated from high school in 1956. From 1956 to 1961 he studied history, Latin, French and political science at the universities of Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau . His doctorate on the provincial assemblies in the Roman Empire during the time of the Principate under Joseph Vogt and the first state examination followed in 1961 in Tübingen. As a research assistant to Walter Schmitthenner , he worked from 1963 to 1967 at the Saarland University and from 1967 to 1969 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1969 he completed his habilitation there with Schmitthenner on The Political Resistance Against Rome in Greece in Ancient History. From 1969 to 1976 Deininger was Robert Werner's successor full professor of ancient history at the Free University of Berlin . He rejected an appointment to Bochum that was received at the same time, as did appointments to Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main. Lifelong friendships developed in Berlin with Werner Dahlheim , Alexander Demandt , Kurt Raaflaub and Wolfgang Schuller .

From 1976 until his retirement in 2002 he was the successor of Hans Rudolph full professor of ancient history at the University of Hamburg . Deininger was the commissioner for the partnership with the University of Bordeaux and thus significantly shaped the scientific relations between the University of Hamburg and France. Deininger was visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux in 1981/82 and 1991/92. He had been married since 1970. His wife Helga Deininger gave the courses "French for Historians" at the history seminar for many years. Deininger had been a member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences since 1993 (later the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg ). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007 by the University of Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III and in 2012 as Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques . He lived in Hamburg-Othmarschen until his death .

Deininger's main research areas were the formation of the Roman Empire, the transition from republic to monarchy in Rome and the development of the constitution in antiquity. He presented five monographs and over 60 articles. Deininger was the editor of two volumes of the Max Weber Complete Edition ( The Roman Agricultural History in Its Significance for Constitutional and Private Law and Social and Economic History 1893-1908 ). Deininger also researched Max Weber's view of antiquity.

Fonts

Monographs

• The provincial diets of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian (= Vestigia. Contributions to ancient history . Vol. 6). Beck. Munich 1965 (at the same time: Tübingen, university, Phil dissertation).
• Political Resistance to Rome in Greece, 217–86 BC Chr. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1971, ISBN 3-11-001605-2 (also: Freiburg i.Br., university, habilitation paper, 1968/69).
• The ancient world as seen by Max Weber (= Eichstätter Hochschulreden. Volume 59). Minerva publication, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-597-30059-6 .
• Flumen Albis. The Elbe in ancient politics and literature (= reports from the meetings of the Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften eV Volume 15, Issue 4). Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-525-86294-6 .

Editorships

• Max Weber. Complete edition. Section 1. Volume 2: The importance of the Roman agricultural history for public and private law. Mohr, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-16-844982-2 .
• Max Weber, complete edition. Department 1. Volume 6: On the social and economic history of antiquity. Writings and speeches 1893–1908. Mohr, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148800-8 .

literature

• Linda-Marie Günther , Norbert Ehrhardt (Hrsg.): Resistance - Adaptation - Integration. The Greek world and Rome. Festschrift for Jürgen Deininger on his 65th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-07911-4 .
• Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11–40, here: pp. 17–18 and pp. 32–33.
• Linda-Marie Günther, Volker Grieb (ed.): Imperial Rome and the Hellenistic East. Festschrift for Jürgen Deininger on his 75th birthday. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10169-1 .
• Helmut Halfmann : Deininger, Jürgen Rolf. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . Vol. 7, Wallstein, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3579-0 , pp. 63-65.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Deininger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Deininger at the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
• Loreen Tornier: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Jürgen Deininger June 10 , 1937 - April 14 , 2017, University of Hamburg, April 19, 2017.

Remarks

1. ↑ Barbara Vogel : History in Hamburg since 1970. In: Rainer Nicolaysen , Axel Schildt (Hrsg.): 100 years of history in Hamburg. Berlin et al. 2011, pp. 295–330, here: p. 313.
2. ↑ List of honorary doctorates from the University of Bordeaux , accessed on January 23, 2020.