Robert Göbl

Robert Göbl (born August 4, 1919 in Vienna ; † December 8, 1997 there ) was an Austrian numismatist .

Life

Robert Göbl enlisted in the armed forces after finishing school in 1938 . The beginning of the Second World War fell into his regular service , in which he fought until he was captured. He remained in captivity until 1947. From 1948 he studied ancient history and classical archeology at the University of Vienna . Karl Pink was particularly influential for him with the principles and methods he developed based on Roman numismatics. After only two years of study, Göbl received his doctorate with the thesis Numismatic-Historical Studies on the History of the Emperors Valerianus and Gallienus . Five years later he received his habilitation . With the mediation of Roman Ghirshman , Göbl arranged the coin collection in Kabul on behalf of UNESCO in 1962 and copied the famous, chronologically significant inscriptions from Peshawar . In 1965 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna, where he had held the chair for ancient numismatics and pre-Islamic history of Central Asia since 1971 . From 1965 to 1987 he was the founding director of the Institute for Ancient Numismatics , founded on the 600th anniversary of the University of Vienna, and since 1978 Institute for Numismatics (since 2000 Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History ). Göbl was able to develop the institute into an international center for numismatic research. In 1989 he retired and was succeeded by Wolfgang Hahn . In 1970 he founded the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was its chairman until his death. He was buried at the Hernals cemetery .

Under the influence of Franz Altheim , Göbl came to pre-Islamic-oriental numismatics and researched not only numismatics but also seals from the Sasanid period . Another focus was the exploration of the Kushan Empire . In connection with Helmut Humbach , he was able to secure an absolute mint date around the year 230 for King Kanischka II . His research was based on the principles developed by Pink, whose studies of Celtic numismatics Göbl continued. He also carried out significant research on Greco-Roman numismatics and the Huns . The term Iranian Huns goes back to his research .

For teaching, to which Göbl attached great importance, he wrote several textbooks and also shaped the direction of the Institute for Numismatics significantly. Especially in later times, he opened up numismatics for other branches of science as a source science. For many years he published the series Die Fundmünzen der Romanzeit in Austria and also translated scientific literature into German. With the minting of the Emperor Aurelian (270-275) and the posthumously published The coinage of Emperor Valerian I., Gallienus, Saloninus (253/268) Regalianus (260) and Macrianus, Quietus (260/262) he sat down at the end of his scientific career with the results of his dissertation and revised the results from scratch.

Göbl became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1963 and a full member in 1971 . In 1981 he was awarded the Wilhelm Hartel Prize .

Fonts

• The Roman coin treasure from Apetlon (= scientific work from Burgenland . Issue 5). Burgenland State Museum, Eisenstadt 1954, PDF on ZOBODAT
• The three versions of the Kaniška inscription from Surkh Kotal. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 88, Treatises 1)
• Two new terms for a central date in the ancient history of Central Asia, the year I of the Kušān king Kaniška. Austrian Academy of Sciences and Böhlau, Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1965, special print from anzeiger of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, born in 1964, Sun.
• Documents on the history of the Iranian Huns in Bactria and India. (4 volumes), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967
• Sasanian numismatics. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1968 (= Handbooks of Central Asian Numismatics, Volume 1)
• Regalianus and Dryantilla. Documentation. Coins, texts, epigraphy. Böhlau, Graz-Vienna-Cologne 1970, ISBN 3-205-04280-8 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 101)
• East Celtic type atlas. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1973
• The Sāsānid seal canon. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1973 (= Handbooks of Central Asian Numismatics, Volume 4)
• Typology and chronology of the Celtic coinage in Noricum. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7001-0029-9 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 113; publications of the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 2)
• The clay bulls from Tacht-e Suleiman. A contribution to late Sāsānid sphragistics. Reimer, Berlin 1976 (= Tacht-e Suleiman, Volume 1)
• Ancient numismatics. (2 volumes), Battenberg, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-87045-144-0
• System and chronology of the coinage of the Kušān Empire. Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-7001-0618-1 (= publications of the Numismatic Commission. Special volume)
• Numismatics. Floor plan and scientific system. Battenberg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87045-231-5
• Excavations in the Carnuntum legionary camp 1968 - 1978. Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-1157-6 (= The coins found in the Roman era in Austria. Special publication; publications by the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 18 )
• The Noric tetradrachm discovery in 1972 from Haimburg in Carinthia. Attempt of an overall construction. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-1554-7 (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 522; publications of the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 21)
• Minting and monetary transactions of the Celts in Austria. Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7001-1987-9 (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 597; publications of the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 28)
• Donum Burns. The Kušān coins in the Münzkabinett Bern and the chronology. Fassbaender, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-900538-42-5
• The Gross-Boier hexadrachm coinage. Procedure, chronology and historical relevance for Noricum and neighboring areas. Fassbaender, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900538-44-1
• The coinage of the emperor Aurelianus (270-275). Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7001-1997-6 (= Moneta imperii Romani, Volume 47; Memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Volume 233; publications by the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 29)
• The coinage of the emperors Valerianus I, Gallienus, Saloninus (253/268), Regalianus (260) and Macrianus, Quietus (260/262). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2923-8 (= Moneta imperii Romani, volumes 36, 43 and 44; memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, volume 286; publications of the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Volume 35)

literature

• Michael Alram : Robert Göbl. In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for 1997/98. 148th year, 1998, pp. 425-432.
• Michael Alram: Robert Göbl. In: Studia Iranica. Volume 27, 1998, pp. 279-288.
• Helmut Schubert: Göbl, Robert. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 475 f.

Web links

• Robert Göbl's bibliography on the website of the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History of the University of Vienna
• Michael Alram: Biographical entry in the Encyclopaedia Iranica

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Göbl grave site , Vienna, Hernalser Friedhof, Group D, No. 23A.