Karl Friedrich Stroheker

Karl Friedrich Stroheker (born August 23, 1914 in Ulm , † December 12, 1988 in Tübingen ) was a German ancient historian .

The son of a pedagogue graduated from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium Stuttgart . He studied history, classical philology, archeology and philosophy in Tübingen, Königsberg and Berlin. His academic teachers were primarily Woldemar Graf Uxkull-Gyllenband , Heinrich Dannenbauer , Otto Weinreich and Wilhelm Weber . Stroheker received his doctorate from Uxkull-Gyllenband at the University of Tübingen in 1937 and completed his habilitation under Joseph Vogt in 1943 after military service in World War II . He was then a university lecturer in Tübingen from 1944 and an adjunct professor from 1950. In the meantime, in 1947/48 he spent three semesters at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg i.Br. active as substitute professor. In 1959 he became an associate professor in Tübingen. He was a full professor there since 1963 and retired in 1979. 1963/64 he was visiting professor at Princeton University . He rejected appointments to chairs in Saarbrücken, Münster and Salzburg. Stroheker was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and its commission for ancient history and epigraphy as well as the Roman-Germanic commission .

Grave of Karl Stroheker in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart, Department 7.

A research focus of Stroheker was the history of late antiquity , especially in the west of the Roman Empire. He has written numerous writings on the history of late ancient Gaul and Spain as well as the Germanic peoples of the migration period. He presented a standard work on the subject of the Gallo-Roman noble families. Other topics were the history of Sicily and the recent Greek tyranny. Together with Gerold Walser, Stroheker was co-founder and long-time editor of the journal Historia and co-editor of the Lexikon der Alten Welt . Perhaps his most important student was the ancient historian Alexander Demandt .

Fonts

See Wolfgang Haase: Directory of the writings of Karl Friedrich Stroheker (1914–1988) . In: Historia . Volume 39, 1990, pp. 257-260.

Monographs

• Eurich, King of the Visigoths. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1937 (at the same time: Tübingen, university, dissertation, 1937).
• The senatorial nobility in late antique Gaul. Alma Mater-Verlag, Tübingen 1948; Reprint Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1970.
• Dionysius I. Figure and history of the tyrant of Syracuse. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958.

Collections of articles

• Germanism and late antiquity. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich 1965.

Editorships

• Polis and Empire. Contributions to ancient history. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich 1965, ISBN 3-7608-0042-4 .

literature

• Wolfgang Haase: Late Antiquity and Germanism. Karl Friedrich Stroheker 65. In: Journal for Württemberg State History. Volume 37, 1978, pp. 15-26.
• Jörg A. Schlumberger: Karl Friedrich Stroheker †. In: Gnomon. Volume 63, 1991, pp. 187-190.
• Gerold Walser: In memory of Karl Friedrich Stroheker (1914–1988). In: Historia. Volume 38, 1989, pp. I-II.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1980. Volume S – Z , De Gruyter, Berlin 1980, p. 3879.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Stroheker in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ^ Karl Friedrich Stroheker: The senatorial nobility in late antique Gaul. Tuebingen 1948.