Peter Herrmann (epigraphist)

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Peter Herrmann (born May 22, 1927 in Reichstadt ; † November 22, 2002 ) was a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

The son of Professor Hugo Hermann attended the secondary school in Böhmisch-Leipa and Reichenberg. In 1943 he had to serve as an air force helper and for a short time as a soldier. The family was driven from their homeland and moved to Vienna. Hermann attended the Realgymnasium in Vienna's 8th district and studied at the University of Vienna from 1947 to 1950 , with Josef Keil and Artur Betz , among others . Keil introduced Hermann to Greek epigraphy and to Asia Minor. In 1950 Herrmann went to Hamburg, where he passed the state examination for Greek and Latin in 1953. His academic teachers were Bruno Snell and Hans Rudolph . After epigraphic studies with the help of a grant from the French state in Paris, among others with Louis Robert , he received his doctorate in 1954 in Hamburg with Bruno Snell with a thesis on concepts of value with Homer . In 1955/56 he traveled through the Mediterranean region with a grant from the German Research Foundation, and in 1956 carried out his first research trip to the Marmara and Aegean region in western Turkey on behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . A lifelong friendship developed with the philologist Otto Lendle and the archaeologist Ernst Berger , who accompanied Herrmann on the trip.

After he had managed an assistant position for ancient history in Göttingen in 1956/57, he completed a teaching traineeship at the Christianeum and Klosterschule in Hamburg (1957–1959). Herrmann married the daughter of the Kiel musicologist Friedrich Blume in 1957 . From 1959 he worked at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Hamburg , initially as an assistant, from 1963 as a teacher in the university service. In 1967 he became a senior lecturer and completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Roman imperial oath sponsored by Hans Rudolph; the following year he became professor of ancient history in Hamburg. In 1972/73 he was a visiting professor in Bordeaux. In 1978 he turned down an offer to Bonn. From 1980 to 1982 he was the spokesman for the history department. In 1989 Herrmann retired in Hamburg.

From 1994 to 2001 he was the project manager of Inscriptiones Graecae at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Herrmann has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1969 and a full member since 1977, a member of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy , a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute since 1973, a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Göttingen and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1980 Sciences and since 1982 member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences .

The focus of Herrmann's scientific activity was the epigraphy of Asia Minor , especially Lydia, where he undertook several research trips. He published two extensive corpora of Lydian inscriptions as part of the Tituli Asiae Minoris and published other important new finds, e.g. B. from Samos , Miletus and Teos . Since the beginning of the 1960s he worked on the inscriptions of the excavation in Miletus, later, as successor to Louis Roberts, also the inscriptions of the American excavation in Sardis . On Herrmann's 90th birthday, a total of 59 essays by Wolfgang Blümel were published in one volume.

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  • Asia Minor as reflected in epigraphic evidence. Selected small fonts. Edited by Wolfgang Blümel. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-048965-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Christian Habicht: Peter Herrmann † In: Gnomon. Vol. 75 (2003), pp. 474-479, here: p. 475.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2002