Renate Johne

Renate Johne (born January 3, 1940 in Chemnitz ) is a German classical philologist and epigraphist .

Renate Johne, née Fiedler, received her doctorate in 1981 from the Humboldt University in Berlin with a thesis on Willibald Pirckheimer and the Plato image of German Renaissance humanism . Probably the most important work of the wife of the ancient historian Klaus-Peter Johne was the Lexicon of Antiquity , which was published jointly with Johannes Irmscher . The editorial work was mainly done by Johne, who was employed at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , whose own dissertation project was repeatedly impaired. The lexicon was so successful that it had a double-digit print run in East and West Germany. In addition, she was involved in the work on several other large-scale projects at the academy, such as the two-volume cultural history of antiquity . Later, Johne worked at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , where she was deputy head of the project “German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages”. She also translated Plato's Das Gastmahl or about love into German.

Publications

• Plato: The banquet or about love. Dieterich, Leipzig 1979
• Co-editor: Lexicon of Antiquity. Bibliographisches Institut, 10th edition, Leipzig 1990 ISBN 3-323-00026-9
• The episcopal tombs. Brandenburg bishops in the mirror of their grave slabs. (= Ancient Art in the Brandenburg Cathedral , Volume 2), Friends of the Brandenburg Cathedral , Brandenburg 2005, ISBN 3-936303-02-9

supporting documents

1. ↑ Kurt Raaflaub : The "Hellenic Poleis" and the "Social Type Concepts" after thirty years , In: Isolde Stark (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf and the old history in the GDR , Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, p. 254
2. ↑ Clio online

Web links

• Literature by and about Renate Johne in the catalog of the German National Library