Otto Hirschfeld

Otto Hirschfeld
(around 1905)

Otto Hirschfeld (born March 16, 1843 in Königsberg , † March 27, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

Life

Medal Otto Hirschfeld 1885

During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn . After studying in Königsberg, Bonn and Berlin, Hirschfeld received his doctorate in Königsberg in 1863 . He completed his habilitation in Göttingen in 1869 and became professor of antiquity at the University of Prague in 1872 . In 1876 he moved to a chair for ancient history, antiquity and epigraphy at the University of Vienna , where he founded an archaeological-epigraphic seminar with Alexander Conze . Just like his colleague Alexander Conze, Hirschfeld received a medal from friends and students when he left the university.

In 1885, Hirschfeld succeeded Theodor Mommsen as professor of ancient history at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , today's Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , and director of the Institute for Classical Studies. At the same time he was accepted into the Berlin Academy . He retired in 1917.

Hirschfeld was mainly active in the field of Latin epigraphy. He published several volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , in particular with the inscriptions of Gaul and the two Germanic provinces. He dealt with this geographical area in his research, as well as with numerous questions of Roman administrative history.

Otto Hirschfeld died eleven days after his 79th birthday on March 27, 1922 in Berlin. He was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg - Westend . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

The grain administration [sic!] Of the Roman Empire . In: Philologus 29, 1870, pp. 1-96.
Investigations in the field of Roman administrative history, vol. 1: The imperial administrative officials except for Diocletian , Berlin 1877 [no more published]; 2. rework. Berlin 1905 edition [ND Zurich 1975].
Lyon in Roman times , Vienna 1878.
Small writings , Berlin 1913.

literature

Hirschfeld, Otto. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 332 f. (Direct links on p. 332 , p. 333 ).
Hirschfeld, Otto. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 96-100.

Web links

Wikisource: Otto Hirschfeld - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Otto Hirschfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
List of publications of the BBAW (PDF) (44 kB)

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 85.
↑ Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, p. 58 f. ( online ).
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 474.

personal data
SURNAME	Hirschfeld, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient historian and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1922
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 85.

[2] Stefan Krmnicek, Marius Gaidys: Taught images. Classical scholars on 19th century medals. Accompanying volume to the online exhibition in the Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Tübingen (= From Croesus to King Wilhelm. New Series, Volume 3). University Library Tübingen, Tübingen 2020, p. 58 f. ( online ).

[3] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 474.