Marieluise Deißmann-Merten

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Marieluise Deißmann-Merten (* as Marieluise Merten on July 17, 1935 in Berlin ; † February 12, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German ancient historian .

Deißmann-Merten studied ancient history, Latin and German in Frankfurt and Bonn . In 1964 she received her doctorate with Hermann Strasburger with a thesis on Fides Romana with Livius at the University of Frankfurt. After a brief period in school, she worked from 1967 until her retirement in 1997 as an academic advisor and later as an academic senior advisor at the University of Freiburg . As a pensioner, from 2005 she was still working at the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

In addition to teaching, Deißmann-Merten's area of ​​responsibility also included looking after the academic coin collection. She not only organized and inventoried the collection, but included it in her teaching at an early stage. Your translation of Caesar's De bello Gallico , which also appeared in a bilingual edition together with the original Latin text, achieved a double-digit print run. The translation of Caesar's The Civil War was also published several times. She also made many contributions to Little Pauly .

Fonts

  • Caesar: The Civil War . Reclam, Stuttgart 1971, several new editions, ISBN 3-15-001090-X .
  • Caesar: De bello Gallico. The Gallic War . Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, several new editions, ISBN 3-15-009960-9 .
  • Caesar: The Gallic War . Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, several new editions, ISBN 3-15-001012-8 .
  • Data on ancient chronology and history . Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-008628-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Treasures of the University. The coin collection of the seminar for ancient history by Eckhard Wirbelauer .