Max L. Strack

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Max Leberecht Strack (born September 9, 1867 in Hamburg ; † November 10, 1914 at Merckem, Flanders ) was a German ancient historian and numismatist .

Life

Strack, son of the Hamburg merchant Hermann Strack and his wife Emma, ​​b. Hertz, attended the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he graduated from high school in 1885. He then began studying in Tübingen , initially alongside his military service as a one-year volunteer . In the fall of 1887, Strack moved to the University of Bonn , where he increasingly concentrated on ancient history. On March 21, 1892, he was in Bonn at Heinrich Nissen with a dissertation on the chronology of the Peloponnesian War doctorate . In the autumn of 1892 Strack began a two-year study trip through the Mediterranean region, which first took him to Athens, from where he traveled through Greece and Asia Minor accompanied by other young scientists. In 1893, he traveled through Egypt to Rome and returned in 1894 back to Bonn, where he was on 25 April 1896, a work on the Ptolemies habilitated .

In 1904 Strack became an associate professor, and in 1907 a full professor of ancient history in Giessen . In 1912 he moved to Kiel . At the outbreak of World War I , Strack became an officer and died in Flanders in November 1914. His son Paul L. Strack , also an ancient historian and numismatist, was one of his successors at the professorship in Kiel and died in World War II .

Strack's research areas were primarily the history of the Ptolemies and Greek numismatics . Since 1896 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

He had been a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen since 1886 .

Fonts

  • De rerum prima belli Peloponnesiaci Parte gestarum temporibus , dissertation, Bonn 1892
  • The Ptolemaic dynasty . Hertz, Berlin 1897 ( archive.org ).
  • The ancient coins of Northern Greece, Volume II 1, 1: Thrace . Berlin 1912

literature

  • Alfred Körte : Max Leberecht Strack , in: Biographisches Jahrbuch für die Altertumswwissenschaft 39, 1919, pp. 1–16.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener corps lists 1910, 197 , 571.