Paul Schnabel

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Paul Schnabel (born September 5, 1887 in Steinbach / Thuringia ; † March 23, 1947 in Schkeuditz ) was a German ancient historian and ancient orientalist .

Life

Schnabel studied ancient history and classical philology in Leipzig and Jena. In Jena he received his doctorate in 1911 with a thesis on Berossos . In the years that followed, until the outbreak of World War I, Schnabel worked as a teacher. After serving in the war from 1914 to 1918, he completed his habilitation in 1920 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , where in 1926 he became an adjunct professor. During his studies he became a member of the Fridericiana Halle in 1920 . Until 1930 Schnabel received a grant from the Prussian Ministry of Culture. In the summer semester of 1927, he took the chair in ancient history at the University of Greifswald . In 1934 Schnabel, who had joined the NSDAP in 1933 , received a teaching position for the history of the ancient Orient in Halle. A nerve disease caused by a malaria infection ended his professional activity in 1937. In 1938, Schnabel's teaching qualification and professorial title were revoked and he was admitted to a mental institution.

Schnabel dealt mainly with the history and chronology of the ancient Orient, especially Berossus, as well as ancient geography (including Claudius Ptolemy ).

Fonts

  • The Babylonian chronology in Berossos' Babyloniaka . Peiser, Berlin 1908.
  • Studies on the Babylonian-Assyrian chronology . Peiser, Berlin 1908.
  • Berossus and Kleitarchos . Teubner, Leipzig 1912.
  • Berossus and the Babylonian-Hellenistic literature . Teubner, Leipzig 1923. Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 1968.
  • The history of the origins of the cartographic image of the earth by Klaudios Ptolemaios. In: Session reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Philosophical-Historical Class. Vol. 14, 1930, pp. 214-250.
  • Ptolemy's text and maps . Koehler, Leipzig 1938.

literature

  • Lexicon of Greifswald university lecturers 1775 to 2006 . Volume 3. 1907 to 1932 . Bock, Bad Honnef 2004, ISBN 3-87066-931-4 , pp. 206-207
  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 387

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 204.

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personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1947
Place of death Schkeuditz