Lothar Wickert
Lothar Wickert (born July 31, 1900 in Lissa , Province of Posen , † February 8, 1989 in Cologne ) was a German ancient historian .
Life
Wickert, the son of an accountant, studied ancient history and classical philology at the universities of Breslau and Berlin from 1919 and received his doctorate on December 9, 1922 in Breslau under Konrat Ziegler . From 1924 he was a scientific assistant at the Prussian Academy of Sciences for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , completed his habilitation in 1930 at the University of Berlin and in 1933 was appointed scientific officer and professor at the academy. In 1935 he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg , and in 1939 a full professor of ancient history at the University of Cologne . In 1941 he joined the NSDAP . In 1966 he retired .
In addition to works on epigraphy and Roman history, Wickert published a four-volume biography of Theodor Mommsen , which, however, was attested to having poorly processed the extensive source material. From 1937 to 1944 he was co-editor of the magazine Klio .
His sons are the librarian Konrad Wickert and the Protestant theologian Ulrich Wickert (1927–2009).
Publications (selection)
- De Nicolao de Valle Hesiodi et Homeri interprete. University publishing house, Breslau 1922 (dissertation).
- Inscriptiones Latii veteris Latinae. Supplementum Ostiense (= Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum . Vol. 14, Supplement). 2 parts. De Gruyter, Berlin 1930.
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Theodor Mommsen. A biography. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1959–1980.
- Volume 1: Apprenticeship years 1817–1844. 1959.
- Volume 2: Years of Wandering: France and Italy. 1964.
- Volume 3: Years of Wandering: Leipzig - Zurich - Wroclaw - Berlin. 1969.
- Volume 4: Size and Limits. 1980.
- Contributions to the history of the German Archaeological Institute 1879 to 1929 (= The German Archaeological Institute, History and Documents. Vol. 2). Von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0395-5 .
literature
- Karl Christ : Theodor Mommsen and his biographer. In historical magazine . Volume 233, 1981, pp. 363-370.
- Hans Kloft : Lothar Wickert. In: Gnomon . Vol. 62, 1990, pp. 475-478 (with illustration).
- Wolfgang Weber : Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Chair of History from the Beginnings of the Subject to 1970. 2nd, revised edition. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- Hans Kloft : Wickert, Lothar. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1303 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lothar Wickert in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ^ Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 46 (2001), p. 248.
- ↑ See the critical review by Alfred Heuss , in: ders: Gesammelte Schriften . Volume 3, Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 2574-2608.
Alfred von Gutschmid (1873–1876) | Franz Rühl (1876–1911) | Friedrich Münzer (1912–1921) | Oskar Leuze (1921–1934) | Lothar Wickert (1935–1939) | Kurt Stade (1941–1945)
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First chair: Johannes Hasebroek (1927–1938) | Lothar Wickert (1939–1967) | Christian Meier (1968–1973) | Gustav Adolf Lehmann (1975–1993) | Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp (1995–2019) | Werner Tietz (since 2017)
Second chair: Hans Volkmann (1955–1965) | Friedrich Vittinghoff (1966–1978) | Werner Eck (1979–2007) | Walter Ameling (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wickert, Lothar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wickert, Lothar Friedrich Karl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lissa , Posen Province , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1989 |
| Place of death | Cologne |