Leuphana

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Location of Leufana after Ptolemy

Leuphana (Λευφάνα) is a place name that is mentioned in the Atlas Geographia compiled by Ptolemy around 150 .

Ptolemy mentions in Geographica 2, 10 a settlement named Leuphana in the Germania not occupied by the Romans . Johann Grasse equated this with Lüneburg in his place-name dictionary.

According to Birgit Günnewig, Leuphana is located on the lower course of the Elbe . But you don't know on which side. One suspects it near Hamburg , near Dömitz (Mecklenburg) or in the area of ​​the Altmark .

Ptolemy (and thus also Graess) may have been wrong. He could have mistaken it for Levefanum , which was on the left bank of the Rhine . Since Ptolemy can be shown to have incorrectly named other poleis , this suspicion is obvious. The name researcher Jürgen Udolph also takes the view that “Leuphana” has nothing to do with Lüneburg. He is supported by his colleagues.

Investigations by the Institute for Geodesy of the Technical University of Berlin after a geodetic deformation analysis of the Ptolemaic map come to the conclusion that Leufana is probably the Hitzacker east of Lüneburg on the Elbe , which speaks for the correctness of the Ptolemaic localization. This finding is supported by the excavations in Marwedel near Hitzacker, where the University of Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin and their archaeologists Olaf Fabian and Ivonne Baier found a settlement dating from 78/80 to 225. The princely graves of Marwedel were found here in 1928 and 1944 , two elite graves with rich additions from the Germanic era around 150.

Since March 20, 2007, the University of Lüneburg has been called "Leuphana". The advertising agency Scholz & Friends Hamburg had developed the new image as Leuphana University Lüneburg pro bono .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ptolemy 2:11
  2. ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Graesse: Orbis latinus or directory of the most important Latin town and country names. 2nd edition, with special consideration of the medieval and more recent Latinity, revised. by Friedrich Benedict. Berlin 1909. Online
  3. ↑ Birgit Günnewig: Leuphana. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . de Gruyter, Berlin 2001.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Professor on Leuphana excursion. In: State newspaper for the Lüneburg Heath . March 3, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.das-weisse-gold.de
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Leuphana was in Holland. In: State newspaper for the Lüneburg Heath . March 10, 2007.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.das-weisse-gold.de
  6. ^ Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 41.
  7. ↑ Historians locate Leuphana near Hitzacker on the Elbe. In: Der Elbländer 12/2010. P. 22.
  8. ↑ One year later: How the university got its name. ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 501 kB) In: AStA newspaper Uni Lüneburg. November 14, 2007, pp. 2-3. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / muster.asta-lg.de
  9. ↑ Brand development for universities. On: markenbusiness.com. March 29, 2007.

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