Otfried Deubner

Otfried Deubner (born December 19, 1908 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † March 16, 2001 in Munich ) was a German classical archaeologist and diplomat .

Deubner, son of the classical philologist and religious historian Ludwig Deubner , attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt and the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg i. Br. Until graduation at Easter 1926. He then studied first one semester each at the technical universities in Stuttgart and Munich before studying classical archeology, classical philology and ancient history in Freiburg , Heidelberg , Berlin , Königsberg and Munich . On December 17, 1931 he received his doctorate in Munich with Ernst Buschor . For 1932–1933 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . Since autumn 1933 he worked as a collaborator in the excavations of Pergamon in the Asklepieion . 1935-1936 he was employed as an assistant at the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute . From November 1937 to February 1938 he did his military service. Since April 1, 1939, he worked as a research assistant at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. From July 11, 1940, he worked as a research assistant in the encryption and communications department of the Foreign Office .

After the end of the war he was interned briefly by the Americans, before teaching as a deputy assistant at the University of Marburg from November 1, 1945 to March 31, 1949 , where he also received his habilitation in classical archeology on December 18, 1946. Since April 1946 he was active in the Hessian school service and passed the state examination on July 26, 1946. Since May 1949 was a teacher at the Schloss Salem school . In 1949 he turned down a call to the chair for Classical Archeology in Jena.

On December 7, 1950, he rejoined the Foreign Office and was initially employed at the headquarters in Bonn. From 1953 until his retirement on December 31, 1971, he worked as a cultural advisor in the German representations in Lisbon, Dublin, Damascus, Karachi, Bern and at the Holy See . He last lived in Munich.

Deubner was a member of the Archaeological Society of Berlin until 1975 .

Publications (selection)

• Hellenistic Apollo figures , Athens 1934 (= dissertation)
• The Asclepion of Pergamon. Brief preliminary description , Berlin 1938
• Ludwig Deubner: Small writings on classical antiquity , edited and provided with a bibliography and a detailed index by Otfried Deubner, Königstein / Taunus 1982, ISBN 3-445-02250-X

literature

• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Second volume: 1910 to 1971. Marburg 1979, pp. 487-488.
• Johannes Hürter , Martin Kröger, Rolf Messerschmidt, Christiane Scheidemann (editor): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945, Volume 1 A – F (= Foreign Office - Historical Service - Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp [Ed.]: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 ). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn Munich Vienna Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 , p. 417-418 , section Deubner, Ottfried (with picture) .