Rudolf Egger (historian)

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Rudolf Egger (born April 11, 1882 in Bruck an der Mur ; † May 7, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ancient historian , epigraphist and archaeologist .

Rudolf Egger, who comes from an old Carinthian family, attended the Villach grammar school from 1892 to 1900 , where the folklorist Ivan Grafenauer was his classmate. After graduating from high school, Egger studied Classical Philology and Classical Studies at the University of Vienna from 1900 . During his studies he became a member of the ATV Vienna . The epigraphist Eugen Bormann had a decisive influence on him during his studies . With Bormann he received his doctorate in June 1905 with the work The excursions in the parallel biographies. A contribution to the way Plutarch works . A year later, the teaching examination for grammar schools in the subjects of Classical Philology and German took place. After teaching at the high schools in Pola and Klagenfurt , he became secretary of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in 1912 . He completed his habilitation in July 1917 at the University of Vienna in the subject of Roman history, antiquity and epigraphy with a thesis on the early Christian church buildings in southern Noricum . For his teaching activities he was appointed associate professor in April 1923.

After Wilhelm Kubitschek left , he received the post of his former teacher Eugen Bormann as full professor at the University of Vienna in October 1929. Together with Camillo Praschniker , Egger was also head of the Austrian Archaeological Institute from 1935 . During the time of National Socialism , he first joined the Nazi teachers' association in early 1938 and then in May the NSDAP . From July 1938 he was a member of the Reichs Luftschutzbund and from December of the NS-Altherrenbundes . In 1945 Egger took part in a conference as part of the " War Deployment of the Humanities " on the subject of "Problems of the settlement and constitutional history of the Baier tribal areas". He gave the lecture on the “transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages”. After Ursula Wolf, Egger belonged to the ranks of “politically moderately engaged historians” during the Nazi era. In 1946 he was prematurely dismissed from his employment due to his membership in the NSDAP and in the NS teachers' association, and in October 1947 he was given permanent retirement. Hermann Vetters and Hedwig Kenner were among his most important academic students .

He is best known for his archaeological excavations both domestically, especially in Carinthia, and abroad (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) as well as for the excavations on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, which he directed for more than 20 years from 1948 . Besides Dalmatia, his areas of interest were the Roman provinces of Noricum and Pannonia . Egger was awarded numerous scientific honors and memberships for his research. From 1937 Egger was a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1952 he became an honorary member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. In 1962 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1964 he became a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België in Brussels. Since 1966 he has been an honorary member of the In 1957 he was the first to receive the Wilhelm Hartel Prize endowed with 30,000 schillings , in 1958 he received the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria , in 1960 the Ring of Honor of the City of Villach, and in 1963 the City Prize Vienna for the humanities , in 1967 the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna and in 1968 the Golden Medal of the City of Klagenfurt.

tomb

Egger died in Vienna in 1969 at the age of 87. He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Fonts (selection)

  • Early Christian church buildings in the southern Norikum (= special publications of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna. Volume 9). Hölder, Vienna 1916, ISSN  1012-5728 ).
  • Guide through the antique collection of the State Museum in Klagenfurt. Hölder, Vienna, 1921.
  • Teurnia. The Roman and early Christian antiquities of Upper Carinthia. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna et al. 1924. (8th expanded edition. Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1979).
  • The early Christian cemetery of Manastirine. Based on the material Fr. Bulić (= research in Salona Volume 2). Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1926.
  • (Ed.): Santonino in Carinthia. From his travel diaries 1485–1486. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1947 [Reprint (= Small Carinthia Library. Volume 10). Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1978, ISBN 3-85378-118-7 ].
  • with Hans Dolens: guide through the excavations and the museum on the Magdalensberg. State Museum for Carinthia. Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1953 (20th unchanged edition. With a summary in English, French, Italian and Slovenian. Klagenfurt 1977).
  • Five lead labels and a mold. The latest Magdalensberg finds. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, scoreboard. Born 1967, ZDB -ID 1181472-x , pp. 195-210.
  • Greek temple images named Germanic. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, scoreboard. 1968, pp. 98-112.

literature

  • Balduin Saria : Rudolf Egger (1882–1969). In: Southeast Research . Volume 28, 1969, pp. 290-293.
  • András Mócsy : Rudolf Egger (1882–1969). In: Archaeologiai Értesítő. Volume 96, 1969, p. 247.
  • Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash , Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-568-2 , pp. 287-316 (on Rudolf Egger especially pp. 290-307).
  • Martina Pesditschek: Egger, Rudolf. 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. 349 f.
  • Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Slightly denazified. The professorships of the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years (= publications of the archives of the University of Vienna. Volume 18). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0275-5 , p. 287.
  • Joachim Werner : Rudolf Egger April 11, 1882– May 7, 1969. In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 1964, pp. 225-230.
  • Hermann Vetters: Rudolf Egger. In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 119 (1969), pp. 363–382.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Altherrenbund des ATB (Ed.): 100 Years Academic Gymnastics Federation 1883–1983 Melsungen 1983, pp. 189-190.
  2. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-316, here: p. 306.
  3. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-316, here: p. 292.
  4. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-316, here: p. 294.
  5. ↑ Ursula Wolf: Litteris et Patriae. The Janus face of history. Stuttgart 1996, p. 93.
  6. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287–316, here: p. 300.
  7. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-316, here: pp. 303f.
  8. ↑ Martina Pesditschek: Vienna was different - the subject of ancient history and antiquity. In: Mitchell G. Ash, Wolfram Nieß, Ramon Pils (Eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Göttingen 2010, pp. 287-316, here: p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ancient historian, epigraphist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1969
Place of death Vienna