Ludwig Deubner

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August Macke : Dr. Ludwig Deubner, writing (Bonn 1903)

Ludwig August Deubner (born February 3, 1877 in Riga , † March 25, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German classical philologist and religious scholar .

Life

Deubner received his doctorate from the University of Giessen in 1899 and passed the state examination. He completed his legal traineeship in Bonn and completed his habilitation in 1903 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1906 he followed a call to the Albertus University in Königsberg as an associate professor. In 1912 he was appointed full professor there. From this position he volunteered for the Landsturm in August 1914 at the beginning of the First World War and was assigned to the newly created radio reconnaissance in Königsberg . For the Battle of Tannenberg , with the help of his knowledge of Russian, he provided crucial information from tapped Russian radio messages. With the rank of major ( directorate ), he moved to the headquarters of the German 8th Army in the east after a few weeks . As the new head of radio reconnaissance in the entire Eastern Front area, he created an independent service from the ground for deciphering the now encrypted Russian radio messages, using the methods of classical philology. For this he received both classes of the Iron Cross and in 1917 accepted a position at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1927 he succeeded Hermann Alexander Diels on his long-vacant chair at the Institute for Classical Studies at Berlin University . Since 1938 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

As a researcher he devoted himself particularly to topics relating to the history of religion; his Attic festivals from 1932 are still considered a standard work today. For the textbook on the history of religion by Chantepie de la Saussaye , he provided the contribution about the Romans. In his will in 1945, Deubner endowed a scholarship for talented students of classical philology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which could only be awarded for the first time in 2009.

Deubner was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

His son was the classical archaeologist Otfried Deubner .

Fonts (selection)

  • De incubatione capitula duo . Giessen 1899 (dissertation, University of Giessen, 1899).
  • Kosmas and Damian. Leipzig and Berlin 1907.
  • Attic festivals. 1932 (Unchanged reprint: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt / Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1956).
  • Small writings on classical antiquity . Edited and provided with a bibliography and a detailed index by Otfried Deubner. Königstein / Ts., Hain 1981 (with introduction and vita).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ludwig Deubner's personal form in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
  2. ^ Friedrich L. Bauer: Was Hindenburg a general? In: Historical Notes on Computer Science . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85789-1 , pp. 257-260.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Deubner grant launched after more than 50 years. The Institute for Classical Philology now awards the funding annually to talented students ( memento from January 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Deubner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deubner, Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1946
Place of death Berlin