Karl Menadier
Karl Menadier (born February 10, 1889 in Berlin , † December 9, 1914 in Insterburg ) was a German numismatist .
Life
Karl Menadier was the son of the numismatist and director of the Berlin Coin Cabinet Julius Menadier and Ida Menadier, nee. Baroness von Düring (1858–1934). After attending grammar school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, he studied history and classical philology in Grenoble , Tübingen and Berlin . During his studies he arranged and cataloged the ancient coins in the Münzkabinett of the city of Mainz . He received his doctorate on October 14, 1913 with the work The Coins and Minting, suggested by Karl Regling, at the Scriptores Historiae Augustae under Otto Hirschfeld and Eduard Meyer . In it he came to important results for the Historia Augusta : He was able to prove "that not a single one of the coin notes in the emperor's biography can be traced back to an actual historical background".
Karl Menadier was supposed to work at the Greek Mint . For 1914/15 he had been awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute , which he could no longer take due to the beginning of the First World War . He was employed as an officer in East Prussia, was awarded the Iron Cross awarded and died in December 1914 in a military hospital in Insterburg of typhoid .
Publications
- The coins and the minting of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. sn, Berlin 1913, (Also in: Zeitschrift für Numismatik . Vol. 31, 1914, pp. 1–144; digitized version ).
literature
- Swiss Numismatic Review . Vol. 20, 1915, p. 157 .
- Numismatic journal. Vol. 49, 1917, ISSN 0250-7838 , p. 149 .
- Kurt Regling : Karl Menadier. In: Journal of Numismatics. Vol. 32, 1920, pp. 182-183, ( digitized version ).
Footnotes
- ↑ Karl Manadier family tree on www.einegroßefamilie.de
- ↑ Julius Menadier: The coins and the coinage in the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. Diss., Berlin 1913, p. 37.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menadier, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German numismatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1914 |
| Place of death | Insterburg |