List of ancient historians at the Humboldt University in Berlin
All professors who taught at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and its successor, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , are included on the list of Berlin's ancient historians . This includes all regular university professors who were allowed to give lectures, i.e. generally had a habilitation . This includes full professors , associate professors , junior professors , visiting professors , honorary professors , chair representatives and private lecturers . Middle class historians ( assistants and employees ) are only considered in justified exceptional cases.
The admission of the scientists until 1945 follows Alexander Demandt . Especially until the professorships in ancient history are established, representatives of the parent disciplines Classical Philology and General History and the neighboring disciplines will be accepted if the lecturers are teaching Ancient History. The old course catalogs are decisive for this. Even after the professorships have been established, university professors who give events on ancient history are accepted.
Since the foundation of the university in 1810, ancient history has been taught in various forms, above all within the framework of general history and classical philology . Berlin quickly developed into one, if not the center of research into the classical and ancient world in Germany. Most of the most important German ancient historians worked at the Berlin University. Theodor Mommsen was the first holder of an independent professorship , only shortly afterwards a second professorship was established, which was not filled again when the second owner, Eduard Meyer , left. After the Second World War there was a brief chair, but after Ernst Hohl's departure in 1955, no more professorial positions were filled. In 1950, teaching in ancient history began at the Free University . The basis of the library there was the specialist library of the Humboldt University, which was stolen by the first West Berlin professor, Franz Altheim , who previously taught at the HUB. The library was rebuilt from old private libraries like that of Ludwig Deubner . From the departure of Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf until shortly before the political turning point in 1989, the subject of Ancient History was largely taught by assistants and lecturers at the Humboldt University.Habilitated scientists mostly belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , but taught as visiting scholars . In 1992, as part of the reorganization of the university, two professorships were set up again, filled with Wilfried Nippel and Klaus-Peter Johne .
The first column shows the name of the person and their life data, the second column shows entry into the university, and the third column shows their departure. Column four lists the highest position achieved at the Humboldt University in Berlin. At other universities, the corresponding lecturer may have made an even more extensive scientific career. The next column lists special features, the career path or other information relating to the university or institute. The last column shows pictures of the lecturers, which is currently difficult due to the image rights. The year of appointment and departure from the apprenticeship company can vary by one year from other information, as there is often a difference of up to one year between appointment and apprenticeship start. The underlying information is not always clear.
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| August Boeckh (1785–1867) | 1810 | professor | Professor of eloquence and classical literature; taught as a classical philologist with a focus on non-fiction ; one of the greatest personalities in his field, outstanding achievements in the field of the economic history of ancient Greece; between 1835 and 1861 he was secretary of the philosophical-historical class of the Prussian Academy of Sciences |
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| Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) | 1810 | 1815 | Academy professor | teaching academician , first doctorate at university; is considered the first major representative of the subject at the Berlin University, co-founder of philological-critical history, significantly involved in the elevation of history to an independent science |
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| Friedrich Rühs (1781–1820) | 1810 | Full professor | first holder of the chair for historical studies, represented ancient history as a universal historian, he had particular merits in research on Scandinavia, but also earlier a nationalist and anti-Semite, reference to ancient history less as a publicist than as a university professor |
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| Eduard Reinhold Lange (1799–1850) | 1824 | 1838 | Private lecturer | Classical philologist, who also taught ancient history, writings on literature and mythology, also employed at the Friedrichwerder grammar school , later rector of the ducal grammar school in Oels, best known for an academic discussion with Karl Otfried Müller | |
| Christian Ludwig Ideler (1766-1846) | 1815 | Full professor | full professor since 1821; Chronology researcher and astronomer, only partly active in the field of ancient history, also dealt with new philologies and oriental studies, from 1816 to 1822 teacher of the Prussian princes Wilhelm, Friedrich and Karl, |
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| Ernst Heinrich Toelken (1785–1869) | 1815 | 1823 | Private lecturer | Numismatist and archaeologist; taught classical philology, mythology and archeology; since 1823 full professor for art history and archeology, since then no more ancient history works | |
| Johann Friedrich Gottfried Eiselen (1785–1865) | 1815 | 1821 | Private lecturer | Camera scientist , private lecturer in 1815, read ancient history, German and world history, professor in Breslau in 1821, belonged to the Lützow hunters during the wars of liberation and later wrote about them | |
| Clemens August Karl Klenze (1795–1838) | 1820 | 1838 | Full professor | Legal historian, specialist in Roman law , received his doctorate in Berlin in 1820, and full professor in 1826, majoring in Roman law and political science |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert (1799–1868) | 1826 | ???? | professor | Professor of Statistics and History, before and afterwards Professor in Königsberg, represented the sick Friedrich Wilken in Berlin for several years, did research primarily on medieval and modern history and cultural history, also held events on ancient history | |
| Friedrich Wilken (1777-1840) | 1816 | 1839 | professor | Professor of Iranian Studies, Director of the Royal Library, Rector of the University in 1821/22, Director of the newly created University Library in 1831, taught languages as well as universal history |
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| Friedrich von Raumer (1781–1873) | 1819 | 1853 1873 |
Full professor | Professor of Political Science and History, represented ancient history as a universal historian, secretary of the philosophical-historical class of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848, one of the founders of German historiography |
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| Peter Feddersen Stuhr (1787-1851) | 1820 | 1851 | Associate professor | Lecturer in 1820, private lecturer in 1821, associate professor in 1826, represented ancient history as a universal historian | |
| Carl Ritter (1779-1859) | 1820 | ???? | Full professor | Professor of geography, regional studies, ethnology and national studies, 1820 professor, 1825 full professor, taught scientific geography, one of the founders of scientific geography |
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| Heinrich Leo (1799–1878) | 1824 | 1827 | Associate professor | represented ancient history as a universal historian, private lecturer in 1824, associate professor in 1825 |
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| Karl Ludwig Blum (1796–1869) | 1825 | 1827 | Classical philologist, who also taught ancient history, moved to Dorpat in 1827 as full professor of geography and statistics, where he mainly worked on new history |
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| Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) | 1825 | 1871 | Full professor | Universal historian, one of the founding fathers of modern history, mainly works on the modern age, but also important works on ancient history |
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| Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1792–1849) | 1827 | 1849 | Full professor | Classical scholar, who also taught Ancient History, 1827 Associate Professor, 1838 professor, a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, he drove the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum ahead | |
| Ernst Alexander Schmidt (1801-1857) | 1827 | 1851 | Extraordinary professor | Medievalist, also taught ancient history | |
| Ferdinand Heinrich Müller (1805–1886) | 1831 | ???? | Associate professor | 1831 private lecturer, 1845 associate professor, only taught ancient history | |
| Carl Eduard Geppert (1811–1881) | 1836 | 1874 | Private lecturer | Classical philologist who also taught ancient history, specialist in the history of religion and theater, chronicler of Berlin |
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| Agathon Benary (1807-1860) | 1839 | 1860 | Private lecturer | Classical philologist, who also taught ancient history, high school teacher at the Cölnisches Realgymnasium |
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| Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (1812-1887) | 1840 | 1851 | Extraordinary professor | taught ancient, German and universal history, 1840 private lecturer, 1845 associate professor, one of the founders and editors of the journal for historical science | |
| Ernst Curtius (1814-1896) | 1843 | 1896 | Full professor | 1843 private lecturer, 1857 in Göttingen on the first pure professorship for ancient history, 1868 full professor for archeology in Berlin, 1881/82 rector of the university, director of the antiquarian shop , initiator of the excavations in Olympia , research on regional studies and the history of Greece |
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| Heinrich Kiepert (1818–1899) | 1853 | ???? | professor | 1853 professor at the Berlin Academy, became professor without habilitation, 1871 full professor; taught geography and ethnology of the Old World |
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| Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884) | 1859 | 1884 | Full professor | Friedrich von Raumer's successor as professor of political science and history, represented ancient history as a universal historian, but is considered the second great personality among Berlin ancient historians after Niebuhr |
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| Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) | 1861 | 1885 | Full professor | most important researcher in the field of Roman history; Science organizer; Nobel Prize for Literature; 1861 holder of the chair for Roman antiquity |
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| Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch (1818–1880) | 1872 | 1880 | Full professor | Universal historian, especially medievalist , with many contributions to ancient history, since 1848 professor in Kiel and Königsberg, in 1872 moved to Berlin |
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| Hans Droysen (1851-1918) | 1877 | 1898 | Private lecturer | Classical philologist and epigraphist, 1879 private lecturer at the university, 1898 high school professor at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium, research on ancient warfare, biographer of Frederick the Great | |
| Elimar Klebs (1852-1918) | 1883 | 1906 | Private lecturer | 1883 private lecturer, employee at the Prosopographia Imperii Romani , 1906 professor in Marburg | |
| Wilhelm Sieglin (1855–1935) | 1898 | 1914 | Full professor | 1884 habilitation, 1896 titular professor, 1899 full professor |
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| Hermann Dessau (1856–1931) | 1884 | 19 ?? | Full honorary professor | Habilitated in 1884 without habilitation thesis; 1896 titular professor, 1917 full honorary professor. As an epigrapher, he was a scientific officer at the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum academy company | |
| Otto Hirschfeld (1843–1922) | 1885 | 1917 | Full professor | since 1869 university lecturer in Göttingen, Prague and Vienna; 1885 Mommsen's successor, enforced the establishment of the “ Institute for Antiquity ” at the university |
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| Ulrich Köhler (1833–1903) | 1886 | 1902 | Full professor | followed Droysen to his chair, next to Hirschfeld director at the Institute for Classical Studies . Previously professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1872, first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens in 1875. |
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| Ernst Fabricius (1857–1942) | 1886 | 1888 | Private lecturer | Classical archaeologist, coming from classical philology, 1886 private lecturer for the complete range of classical and ancient science subjects; 1888 as full professor in Freiburg; 1902 head of the Reich Limes Commission | |
| Friedrich Koepp (1860–1944) | 1892 | 1896 | Private lecturer | 1887 assistant at the Imperial Archaeological Institute in Berlin, 1892 private lecturer for archeology and ancient history, 1896 as professor to Münster; Excavators of the Roman camp Haltern ; Managing Director of the Westphalian Antiquities Commission in Münster, 1916 head of the Roman-Germanic Commission | |
| Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt (1861–1938) | 1893 | 1911 | Associate professor | 1893 private lecturer, 1901 adjunct professor, 1911 as full professor in Liverpool; founded the magazine Klio ; researched ancient oriental history and the eastern Mediterranean | |
| Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) | 1897 | 1927 | Full professor | 1897 Full Professor of Classical Philology, retired in 1921, taught until 1927; most important philologist of his generation; Renewed Boeckh's thoughts on the all-encompassing antiquity research and bundled them in the Institute for Antiquity Research ; 1915/1916 rector of the Berlin University; 1917/1918 member of the Prussian manor house |
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| Hans Delbrück (1848–1929) | 1896 | 1921 | Full professor | Universal and military historian; Successor to Heinrich von Treitschke's chair ; Member of the Reichstag from 1884 to 1890 ; Opponent of the stab in the back legend as well as the sole German war guilt; Revolutionized the writing of military and court martial law |
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| Eduard Meyer (1855-1930) | 1902 | 1923 | Full professor | since 1884 professor in Leipzig, Breslau, Halle and Munich, since 1902 in Berlin; Successor to Koehler; most important ancient historian since Mommsen; 1919/20 rector of the university; his chair remained vacant after his departure; Representatives of the cycle theory; The main work is the history of antiquity |
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| Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) | 1902 | 1926 | Full professor | Holder of an extraordinary chair for German archeology, first chair for prehistory and early history ; mostly dealt with the contrast between Romans and Teutons in teaching |
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| Eduard Norden (1868–1941) | 1906 | 1941 | Full professor | Professor of Classical Philology; Rector of the university in 1928; Due to his outstanding position, he was able to teach until 1935, but had to emigrate to Switzerland in 1938 because of his Jewish origins. |
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| Kurt Regling (1876-1935) | 1907 | Honorary professor | Numismatist; 1920 honorary professor; 1921 director of the Berlin Coin Cabinet | ||
| Ernst Herzfeld (1880–1948) | 1909 | 1935 | Full professor | 1917 professor of oriental archeology or regional and ancient studies; only in 1910 a lecture on Alexander the great | |
| Arthur Rosenberg (1889-1943) | 1914 | 1933 | Private lecturer | Communist, member of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1927; as a Jew, his license to teach was revoked in 1933 | |
| Paul Martin Meyer (1866-1935) | 1916 | 1931 | Honorary professor | Papyrologist; 1916 adjunct professor, 1917 honorary professor | |
| Ulrich Wilcken (1862–1944) | 1917 | 1931 | Full professor | most important Berlin ancient historian after Meyer, successor to Hirschfeld's professorship; Pioneer of Greco-Roman papyrology in Germany; founded the archive for papyrus research and related fields | |
| Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen (1833–1903) | 1917 | 1933 | Honorary professor | Private scholar; Epigraphist and Classical Archaeologist | |
| Eugen Täubler (1879–1953) | 1918 | 1922 | Private lecturer | as a Jew, his license to teach was revoked in 1933; researched Jewish history in antiquity and the relationship between the Jews and the Greeks and Romans | |
| Emil Forrer (1894–1986) | 1925 | 1929 | Private lecturer | Assyriologist and Hittiteologist ; Director of the Middle East Department ; Work on the Achijawa theory | |
| Elias Bickermann (1897–1981) | 1929 | 1933 | Private lecturer | Moldovans; As a Jew, his license to teach was revoked in 1933, went first to France, then to the USA; researched Jewish history in the time of Hellenism | |
| Ernst Stein (1891–1945) | 1929 | 1932 | Associate professor | Ancient historian and Byzantinist; 1929 private lecturer, 1931 associate professor; renounced his teaching license in 1933 to forestall his discharge from university service as a Jew and went to Washington | |
| Lothar Wickert (1900–1989) | 1930 | 1935 | Private lecturer | Latin epigrapher; 1930 private lecturer; 1935 to Königsberg; wrote mainly biographical treatises, Mommsen biographer | |
| Hans Erich Stier (1902–1979) | 1930 | 1936 | Private lecturer | Ancient historians without any noteworthy effect on the subject; Most of all his Germanocentric writings are remembered; from 1936 professor in Münster; CDU politician | |
| Wilhelm Weber (1882–1948) | 1932 | 1945 | Full professor | National Socialist; working less through his many writings than through his many disciples; cooperated with the office of Rosenberg and influenced the appointment policy in ancient history through expert opinions | |
| Wilhelm Schubart (1873–1960) | 1912 | 1937 | Honorary professor | Classical philologist, ancient historian and papyrologist; headed the Berlin papyrus collection from 1912 to 1937; 1912 professor; 1920 Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Frankfurt am Main; resigned from all offices in 1937 in protest against the National Socialists | |
| Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905–1965) | 1934 | 1935 | Private lecturer | belonged to the George circle ; 1936 professor in Giessen, 1948 in Munich; Co-founder of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy ; Brother of Berthold and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , husband of Melitta Schiller |
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| Günther Klaffenbach (1890–1972) | 1935 | 1955 | professor | 1929 professor at the Berlin Academy; Headed the Inscriptiones Graecae there ; 1935 honorary professor, 1946 professor with teaching assignment | |
| Johannes Stroux (1886–1954) | 1935 | 1954 | Full professor | Classical philologist; Head of the Institute for Antiquities, 1946/47 rector of the university; 1945 to 1951 President of the Prussian / German Academy of Sciences in Berlin |
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| Werner Peek (1904-1994) | 1937 | 1945 | Extraordinary professor | Epigraphist; 1937 university lecturer, 1944 adjunct professor | |
| Berthold Rubin (1911–1990) | 1942 | 1942 | Lecturer | Ancient historian and Byzantinist; Specialist in late antiquity ; Right-wing populist, keynote speaker at the founding of the NPD | |
| Johannes Straub (1912–1996) | 1943 | 1944 | Lecturer | Specialist in late antiquity; 1944 Professor in Erlangen, then in Bonn | |
| Ernst Hohl (1886–1957) | 1950 | 1955 | Full professor | 1919 professor in Rostock; 1950 successor to Weber's chair; Head of the Classical Institute | |
| Werner Hartke (1907-1993) | 1955 | 1958 | professor | Classical philologist; Head of the Classical Institute; 1958 President of the German Academy of Sciences | |
| Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979) | 1958 | 1964 | Professor | Professor with teaching assignment (without chair); Head of the Classical Studies Institute; interpreted ancient history very broadly; Author of well-known children's books on the North American Indians | |
| Johannes Mathwich | 1958 | 1970 | Senior assistant | 1958 assistant, later senior assistant; was to be Welskopf-Henrich's successor, but did not receive a doctorate or habilitation; Fled from the republic in 1970 | |
| Heinz Kreissig (1921–1984) | 1961 | 1969 | scientific Assistant | 1961 Aspirant, 1961 to 1965 Research Associate, 1965 to 1969 Head of the Working Group on Ancient Economic History at the Institute for Economic History at the HUB, 1970 to 1980 Head of the Greco-Roman Antiquity Research Department at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, there since 1973 professor | |
| Armin Jähne (* 1941) | 1970 | 1995 | Associate professor | 1970 Senior Scientific Assistant and Head of Ancient History, 1988 Associate Professor | |
| Gert Audring (* 1944) | 1988 | professor | 1988 to 1991 professor, 1992 research assistant; Head of the Greco-Roman history department at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR | ||
| Peter Musiolek (* 1927) | 1988 | ???? | Honorary Lecturer | Honorary lecturer, specialist in Greco-Roman social history | |
| Hans-Joachim Gehrke (* 1945) | 1991 | 1991 | Visiting professor | Visiting professor in the summer semester 1991, participation in the restructuring of the university in the field of classical studies |
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| Klaus-Peter Johne (* 1941) | 1992 | 2009 | professor | together with Nippel first professor in 1992 after the reorganization of the university due to reunification, retired in 2007, continues to teach; Specialist in Roman history, especially the Historia Augusta | |
| Wilfried Nippel (* 1950) | 1992 | 2015 | professor | together with Johne in 1992 first professor after the reorganization of the university due to reunification; Specialist in historical anthropology and constitutional history. Senior professor since 2015 | |
| Klaus Hallof (* 1957) | 1993 | Extraordinary professor | Extraordinary professor of epigraphy, teaches classical philologists; since 1993 head of Inscriptiones Graecae | ||
| Günter Poethke (* 1939) | 1995 | Extraordinary professor | Papyrologist; 1995 private lecturer, 1999 adjunct professor, also teaches historical subjects with classical philologists | ||
| Elke Hartmann (* 1969) | 2002 | 2010 | Junior professor | first junior professor of the department; Specialist for gender studies | |
| Marietta Horster (* 1961) | 2007 | 2010 | Professor | 2007/08 substitute professor | |
| Ulrich Huttner (* 1965) | 2008 | 2009 | Private lecturer | 2008 substitute professor, 2009 private lecturer | |
| Aloys Winterling (* 1956) | 2009 | professor | 2009 Professor, successor to Johnes, previously since 1993 Professor in Bielefeld, Freiburg / Br. and Basel; Research focuses on the area of Greek and Roman social history as well as historical anthropology | ||
| Claudia Tiersch (* 1967) | 2010 | Professor | 2010 professor (early appointment); 2015 Chair successor Nippel |
First chair / professorship:
- 1861–1885: Theodor Mommsen
- 1885–1917: Otto Hirschfeld
- 1917–1931: Ulrich Wilcken
- 1932–1945: Wilhelm Weber
- 1950–1955: Ernst Hohl
- 1992–2015: Wilfried Nippel
- Since 2015: Claudia Tiersch (appointed early in 2010)
Second chair / professorship:
- 1886–1902: Ulrich Köhler
- 1903–1923: Eduard Meyer
- 1992–2007: Klaus-Peter Johne
- Since 2009: Aloys Winterling
literature
- Alexander Demandt : Ancient History at the Berlin University (1810–1960) . In: Willmuth Arenhövel and Chista Schreiber: Berlin and the ancient world. Essays , Wasmuth, Berlin 1979, pp. 69-98.
- Isolde Stark : Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and Ancient History in the GDR , Franz Steiner 2005. ISBN 978-3-51-508457-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Demandt: Ancient History at the Berlin University (1810–1960). In: Willmuth Arenhövel and Chista Schreiber: Berlin und die Antike , pp. 69–98.