List of ancient historians at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
The list of ancient historians at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg includes all university professors who taught or teach ancient history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . This normally includes all regular university professors who were allowed to give lectures, i.e. who had completed their habilitation . In particular, these are full professors , non-scheduled professors , junior professors , guest professors , honorary professors , chair representatives and private lecturers . Old historians of the middle level (lecturers: assistants and employees ) are only taken into account in justified exceptional cases (e.g. as academic advisors for life).
The ancient history chair was established in the winter semester of 1887/88. Initially it was institutionally linked to Classical Archeology . The separation took place in 1928. Until 2004 the institute was an independent institution, since then it has been part of the Center for Classical Studies. In 1960 a second chair specializing in Roman history was established, while the first general chair became a chair with special reference to the history of ancient Greece. The Heidelberg ancient history is very much oriented towards research into epigraphy and social history.
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 names the highest position achieved at Heidelberg University. 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.
| scientist | from | to | Functions | Remarks | image |
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| Boeckh, August (1785–1867) | 1807 | 1809 | Extraordinary professor | after his habilitation in 1807 at the age of 22 immediately appointed adjunct professor; Scientific organizer in the field of ancient studies and one of the outstanding personalities in the field, initiator of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum and thus one of the founding fathers of scientific epigraphy |
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| Wachsmuth, Kurt (1837–1905) | 1877 | 1886 | Full professor | Classical philologist with an emphasis on ancient history; Expert in the topography of ancient Greece |
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| Domaszewski, Alfred von (1856–1927) | 1887 | 1924 | Full professor | First holder of the chair; Research focus in the field of Roman epigraphy and military history |
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| Täubler, Eugen (1879–1953) | 1925 | 1933 | Full professor | Successor to Domaszewski; The main research interests were the Roman constitutional history and the relationship between Judaism and classical antiquity | |
| Schachermeyr, Fritz (1895–1987) | 1936 | 1940 | Full professor | Successor to Täublers; conducted his research in the Heidelberg period in line with the National Socialist ideology; Specialist in Greek history | |
| Schaefer, Hans (1906–1961) | 1942 | 1961 | Full professor | Successor to Schachermeyr; Specialist in Greek constitutional history; died like his colleague Moreau in a plane crash in Turkey during a research trip | |
| Strasburger, Hermann (1909–1985) | 1946 | 1949 | Private lecturer | Due to his Jewish origins, he was unable to teach during the National Socialist dictatorship and did not continue his career until 1946 | |
| Moreau, Jacques (1918–1961) | 1960 | 1961 | Full professor | First holder of the second chair; Specialist for the history of the later Roman Empire; died like his colleague Schaefer in a plane crash in Turkey during a research trip | |
| Ursula Vogel-Weidemann (1930–1997) | 1960 | 1967 | Academic Councilor | 1960 scientific assistant to Schaefer, after his death academic adviser and until Gschnitzer's appointment in 1962 representative of ancient history at the university; 1967 to South Africa, there professor | |
| Gschnitzer, Fritz (1929-2008) | 1962 | 1997 | Full professor | Successor to Schaefer; Specialist in Greek social history and epigraphy | |
| Gottlieb, Gunther (* 1935) | 1962 | 1975 | Private lecturer | 1962 research assistant, 1971 habilitation and private lecturer; Expert in Roman provincial history, early Christianity and the old church and its relationship to the ancient state | |
| Habicht, Christian (1926-2018) | 1965 | 1972 | Full professor | Successor to Moreau; 1973 honorary professor; Specialist in Greek history and epigraphy | |
| Müller, Helmut (* 1947) | 1972 | ? | Private lecturer | 1972 doctorate and research assistant, 1988 private lecturer; Senior Scientific Adviser at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy ; Expert in Greek epigraphy, Hellenistic history and the history of Asia Minor in antiquity | |
| Alföldy, Géza (1935–2011) | 1975 | 2004 | Full professor | Successor to Habicht's; Retired in 2002, taught as a chair representative until 2004; Specialist in Roman history, social history, historiography, prosopography and epigraphy | |
| Trümpy, Catherine (* 1956) | 1991 | Professor | Lecturer, Professor at the University of Geneva; Specialist in Mycenology , Linear B and Greek Poetry | ||
| Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia (* 1962) | 1992 | Extraordinary professor | 1992 lecturer, 1994 research assistant, 1999 university assistant, 2003 habilitation and private lecturer, 2008 adjunct professor; Specialist in Greek social, culture, religious and legal history | ||
| Corsten, Thomas (* 1961) | 1997 | 2010 | Extraordinary professor | 1997 habilitation and private lecturer, 2002/03 substitute professor, 2004 adjunct professor; Specialist in epigraphy, numismatics and Greek constitutional history | |
| Chaniotis, Angelos (* 1959) | 1998 | 2006 | Full professor | Successor to Gschnitzers; Expert in epigraphy and ancient Crete | |
| Kruse, Thomas (* 1961) | 1999 | 2010 | University lecturer | 1999 Research Associate at the Institute for Papyrology at the University of Heidelberg, 2002 Research Associate at the Institute for Papyrology, 2004 University Lecturer at the Institute for Papyrology | |
| Witschel, Christian (* 1966) | 2005 | Full professor | Successor to Alfoldy; Specialist in Roman social and economic history, the history of the 3rd century AD and Latin epigraphy | ||
| Trampedach, Kai (* 1962) | 2007 | Full professor | Successor of Chaniotis; Specialist in the relationship between religion / philosophy and politics in antiquity | ||
| Scheithauer, Andrea | ? | ? | Private lecturer | Specialist in Roman history, epigraphy, ancient music and Augustan poetry | |
| Wesch-Klein, Gabriele | ? | Extraordinary professor | Specialist in Roman social and military history as well as the history of the Roman provinces | ||
| Bredow, Iris von (* 1948) | ? | 2010 | Private lecturer | ||
| Horster, Marietta (* 1961) | 2009 | 2009 | Professor | Representative professor for Christian Witschel in the summer semester 2009 | |
| Hartmann, Elke (* 1969) | 2011 | 2011 | Professor | Deputy Chair for Kai Trampedach in the summer semester 2011 |
- Chair 1 (initially general, since the establishment of the second chair specializing in Greek history):
- Alfred von Domaszewski (1887–1924)
- Eugen Täubler (1925–1933)
- Fritz Schachermeyr (1936–1940)
- Hans Schaefer (1942–1961)
- Fritz Gschnitzer (1962–1997)
- Angelos Chaniotis (1998-2006)
- Kai Trampedach (since 2007)
- Chair 2 (specializing in Roman history):
- Jacques Moreau (1960–1961)
- Christian Habicht (1965–1972)
- Géza Alföldy (1975-2002)
- Christian Witschel (since 2005)
literature
- Géza Alföldy : The Ancient History in Heidelberg . In: Jürgen Miethke (Ed.): History in Heidelberg. 100 years of historical seminar. 50 years of the Institute for Franconian-Palatinate History and Regional Studies , Berlin and Heidelberg 1992, pp. 219–241.
- Angelos Chaniotis and Ulrich Thaler: The ancient sciences at the University of Heidelberg 1933-1945 , in Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin and Eike Wolgast (eds.): The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism , Berlin 2006, pp. 391-435. ( online )