List of ancient historians at Saarland University
The list of ancient historians at the Saarland University includes all ancient historians who were or are active as professors at the Saarland University at the Institute for Ancient History . This generally includes full, non-scheduled, guest and honorary professors as well as private lecturers . In justified exceptional cases, other lecturers can also be accepted. The subject Ancient History is taught at the University since 1949, since 1951 the standing chair in front of a professor. In 1975, Ancient History was given a second chair, which it lost to Classical Archeology in 1994 .
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 Saarland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banner, Joseph (1915–1963) | 1949 | 1949 | Lecturer | French, not really an ancient historian; first lecturer in ancient history at the university, but not qualified as a professor | |
| Moreau, Jacques (1918–1961) | 1950 | 1960 | Full professor | first holder of the chair; 1950 lecturer, 1951 adjunct professor, 1953 full professor | |
| Schmitthenner, Walter (1916–1997) | 1961 | 1967 | Full professor | second holder of the chair | |
| Freis, Helmut (1935–2002) | 1961 | 2000 | academic advice | in the winter semester 1979/80 only full-time lecturer in the department; not qualified as a professor; 1955 student, then as assistant and academic advisor at the university | |
| Schmitt, Hatto H. (* 1930) | 1964 | 1965 | Extraordinary professor | ||
| Kienast, Dietmar (1925–2012) | 1965 | 1965 | professor | Substitute professor in the summer semester of 1965 | |
| Franke, Peter Robert (1926-2018) | 1967 | 1994 | Full professor | third holder of the chair; Numismatist; after his departure, the professorship was reallocated to save the Faculty of Classical Archeology at the university, which was threatened with closure | |
| Heinen, Heinz (1941–2013) | 1970 | 1971 | academic advice | ||
| Bellen, Heinz (1927–2002) | 1970 | 1971 | professor | Substitute professor in the 1970/71 winter semester | |
| Meister, Klaus (* 1938) | 1971 | 1975 | professor | Scientific Councilor and Professor; Successor to Heine | |
| Siewert, Peter (* 1940) | 1973 | 1980 | Assistant professor | 1971 lecturer, 1973 assistant professor | |
| Eck, Werner (* 1939) | 1975 | 1979 | Full professor | Successor to master; Holder of a newly created second professorship | |
| Leschhorn, Wolfgang (* 1950) | 1979 | Private lecturer | 1979 assistant, 1986 university assistant, 1991 senior assistant, 1996 private lecturer | ||
| Gawantka, Wilfried (* 1944) | 1979 | 1980 | professor | Substitute professor in the 1979/80 winter semester | |
| Girardet, Klaus Martin (* 1940) | 1980 | 2006 | Full professor | Successor to Eck's second professorship | |
| Schumacher, Leonhard (* 1944) | 1982 | 1983 | professor | Substitute professor in the winter semester 1982/83 | |
| König, Ingemar (* 1938) | 1983 | 1983 | professor | Substitute professor in the 1983 summer semester | |
| Schlumberger, Jörg (* 1939) | 1983 | 1984 | professor | Substitute professor in the winter semester 1983/84 | |
| Rebenich, Stefan (* 1964) | 1997 | 1998 | professor | Substitute professor in the 1997/98 winter semester | |
| Dettenhofer, Maria H. (1960-2016) | 2004 | Visiting professor | Visiting professor in the field of gender studies | ||
| Schlange-Schöningen, Heinrich (* 1960) | 2006 | professor | Girardet's successor to what is now the only professorship |