Wolf Liebeschuetz

Wolf Liebeschuetz (full name John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz, born June 22, 1927 in Hamburg ) is a British ancient historian of German origin.

Life

Wolf Liebeschuetz was born on June 22, 1927 in Hamburg as the first child of the historian Hans Liebeschütz and the doctor Rahel Liebeschütz-Plaut . His father taught at various schools and held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Hamburg until he was dismissed in 1934 due to his Jewish descent. Despite the increasing hostility towards the Jews in Nazi Germany, the family stayed in Hamburg. It was only after Hans Liebeschütz had been arrested twice by the Gestapo and finally held for four weeks in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp that the family decided to emigrate to England. Wolf Liebeschuetz was sent ahead together with his siblings Hugo (* 1929) and Elisabeth (* 1932) and reached England on December 14, 1938.

In 1945 Liebeschuetz obtained the general higher education entrance qualification ( Higher School Certificate ) at the Whitgift School in Croydon . He had originally aimed to study medicine, but after his military service, which he completed in Egypt, he decided in 1946 to study ancient and medieval history at University College in London. He graduated in 1951 and obtained the Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Westminster College London the following year . He then returned to University College as a Ph.D. student. His supervisor was Arnaldo Momigliano .

Between 1958 and 1963 Liebeschuetz worked as a teacher. In 1963 he got a job as a research assistant at the University of Leicester . 1979 followed a professorship at the Institute for Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Nottingham ; at the same time he was entrusted with the management of the institute. In 1992 Liebeschuetz retired and in the same year became a member of the British Academy .

His research focus is on the Roman religion of the imperial era and late antiquity and the change from the ancient to the medieval world.

Fonts (selection)

• Continuity and Change in Roman Religion. Oxford 1979, ISBN 0-19-814822-4 .
• Barbarians and Bishops. Army, Church and State in the Age of Arcadius and Chrysostom. Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-814886-0 .
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman City. Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-815247-7 .
• Decline and Change in Late Antiquity. Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography. Aldershot 2006, ISBN 0-86078-990-X .
• Ambrose and John Chrysostom. Clerics between Desert and Empire. Oxford 2011, ISBN 0-19-959664-6 .
• East and West in Late Antiquity. Leiden / Boston 2015 (collected articles), ISBN 978-90-04-28292-6 .

literature

• John Drinkwater, Benet Salway (Ed.): Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected. Essays presented by Colleagues, Friends & Pupils (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 91). London 2007, ISBN 978-1-905670-04-8 .

Web links

• JHWG Liebeschuetz on the homepage of the Department of Classics at the University of Nottingham
• Publications by JHWG Liebeschuetz in the Opac der Regesta Imperii