Pavel Oliva

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Pavel Oliva (born November 23, 1923 in Karlín as Pavel Ohrstein ) is a Czech Holocaust survivor and ancient historian .

life and work

Oliva was born as Pavel Ohrstein into a Jewish family. In December 1941 he was part of the reconstruction team that prepared the Theresienstadt ghetto for the arrival of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Here he was later assigned to the menage service command . His deportation , together with 2,500 other Jewish prisoners, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , took place in December 1943. Here he was assigned to the sewer cleaning command . In autumn 1944 he survived through his selection into a work detachment with several, mostly Czech Jews, which led to a BRABAG industrial facility of the Schwarzheide concentration camp ( belonging to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ). After the camp was cleared, he and 200 other Jews survived a death march to Varnsdorf and Litoměřice . Later he walked to Theresienstadt, where the International Committee of the Red Cross took care of it. After the war, Oliva joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . He dropped the name Ohrstein and took the surname Oliva instead. He associated this with triumph .

After the war, Oliva began to study Classical Philology in Prague and received her doctorate in 1950. This was followed by a lengthy activity at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . In 1965 he became a member of the Academy and in 1968 Professor of Ancient History at Charles University in Prague . In April 1966 he organized an international congress on the subject of antiquity and the present in Brno . He later belonged to the editorial staff of the magazines Eirene from Prague and Klio from East Berlin . In 2001 he was one of the editors of Relationes Budvicens as emeritus .

Oliva's main research interests include early Greek civilization, early Greek tyranny, and the social history of Sparta .

Fonts

• Sparta and her Social Problems , Prague 1971
• Solon - Legend and Reality , Konstanz 1988
• Kolébka demokracte. Dëjiny a kultura klasického Recka 5.-4. proud pf. n. 1. [The cradle of democracy. History and culture of classical Greece in the 5th – 4th centuries Century BC.] Prague 2000

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Pavel Oliva in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Literature by and about Pavel Oliva in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All information according to: curriculum vitae on pametnaroda.cz and curriculum vitae on postbellum.cz ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Both accessed on February 17, 2012 
2. ↑ Preface, in: Pavel Oliva: Solon - Legende und Reality, Konstanz 1988
3. ↑ Cf., Gnomon, vol. 37, vol. 4 (August 1965), p. 431.
4. ↑ Cf., Gnomon, 75th Vol., H. 2 (2003), p. 191.