Jaroslav Šašel

Jaroslav Šašel (born January 21, 1924 in Šmarje pri Jelšah ; † March 25, 1988 in Ljubljana ) was a Yugoslav provincial Roman archaeologist and epigraphist .

life and work

Jaroslav Šašel, the son of the worker Josip Šašel and Therezija Filipowsky, attended elementary school from 1930 to 1935 and the grammar school from 1935, first in Maribor , from 1936 to 1943 in Ljubljana . He could not start his studies immediately, but had to do military service in a punitive battalion. From 1947 he studied archeology and ancient history at the University of Ljubljana , especially with the archaeologist Josip Korošec and the historian Fran Zwitter , and in 1950 acquired the Bacchalaureate in both subjects. From 1951 to 1961 he worked as an assistant at the University's Archaeological Seminar, from 1961 at the Archaeological Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Research stays took Šašel to the University of Graz , the École française d'Athènes and the Institute for Advanced Study (1969/70 and 1981/82). His international reputation shows his membership in various scientific associations: he was an honorary member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie and the Society of Antiquaries of London , corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Austrian Archaeological Institute , external member of the Center for Epigraphy and Numismatics in Belgrade and since 1985 corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Šašel dealt intensively with the archaeological and especially epigraphic evidence of the ancient history of Slovenia. He published several individual studies on the Roman settlement history of Emona, which was in the area of ​​Ljubljana. He published several writings together with his wife Ana Šašel (1921-2001), a classical philologist and librarian, so in 1955 an archaeological travel guide through Emona and 1963 and 1978 editions of newly discovered Latin inscriptions. In addition, he participated in international projects such as the Tabula Imperii Romani (participation in the sheet L-33, Trieste , published 1961; author of the sheet K-34, Naissus , published 1978), the Prosopographia Imperii Romani (volume 4, published 1966) and Pauly's real encyclopedia of classical antiquity , for which he wrote numerous detailed articles.

Jaroslav Šašel was the father of the archaeologist Marjeta Šašel Kos .

Fonts (selection)

• Pogled v emonske plasti . 1951
• with Ana Šašel: Vodnik po Emoni . Ljubljana 1955
• with Ana Šašel: Inscriptiones Latinae quae in Iugoslavia inter annos MCMXL et MCMLX repertae et editae sunt . Accedunt corrigenda ad volumen I operis V. Hoffiller et B. Saria, ancient inscriptions from Yugoslavia, Zagreb 1938, indices, tabulae geographicae duae. Ljubljana 1963 ( situla 5).
• Živa antique . Skopje 1963
• with Ana Šašel: Inscriptiones latinae quae in Iugoslavia inter annos MCMLX et MCMLXX repertae et editae sunt . Accedunt nonnullae ad annos MCMXL-MCMLX pertinentes (praecipue in ephemeris Vjesnik za arheologiju i historiju dalmatinsku editae). Ljubljana 1978 ( Situla 19).
• Opera selecta . Ljubljana 1992 ( Situla 30)

literature

• Slovenski biografski leksikon . Volume 11: Stel - Švikaršič . Ljubljana 1971.
• Jenő Fitz : Jaroslav Šašel † . In: Gnomon . Vol. 61 (1989), pp. 475-476.
• Stane Gabrovec: Jaro Šašel (1924–1988) . In: Arheološki vestnik . Volume 41, 4 (1990), pp. 17-24 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Peter Petrù: Šašel, Jaroslav (1924–1988) . Slovenska biografija. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2013 (accessed August 4, 2019).