Ruth Altheim-Stiehl

Ruth Altheim-Stiehl (born March 16, 1926 in Forst (Lausitz) ) is a German ancient historian .

She studied at the Free University of Berlin , where she received her doctorate in 1951 with the dissertation Five Poems from the Divan of Ka'b Ibn Zuhair and in 1955 she qualified as a professor with the thesis The Dating of the Capitoline Fasts . From 1953 to 1962 she was an assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the Free University, and from 1962 to 1964 she was an adjunct professor there . In 1964 she became a full professor of ancient history at the University of Münster . She and Edith Ennen were the first two women to receive a chair for history in the Federal Republic of Germany . In the GDR it was the ancient historian Liselotte Welskopf who achieved a comparable position at the HU Berlin in 1961/62.

The focus of her research is on the Sassanids , the Arabs in antiquity and the epoch of late antiquity . Engelbert Winter and Josef Wiesehöfer are among her students . Her first publications appeared under the maiden name Ruth Stiehl, partly in collaboration with her academic teacher and later adoptive father Franz Altheim . In 1991 she retired, her successor was Norbert Ehrhardt .

literature

Ernst Baltrusch : History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11-40, pp. 15 f. and 39.

Sylvia Paletschek : Ermentrude and her sisters. The first habilitation women historians in Germany. In: Henning Albrecht et al. (Ed.): Political history of society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Festival ceremony for Barbara Vogel. Krämer, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89622-079-9 , pp. 175-187 ( PDF file; 1.4 MB ).

Web links

Literature by and about Ruth Altheim-Stiehl in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

↑ Sylvia Paletschek : Ermentrude and her sisters. The first habilitation women historians in Germany. In: Henning Albrecht et al. (Ed.): Political history of society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Festival ceremony for Barbara Vogel. Krämer, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89622-079-9 , pp. 175–187, here p. 181 ( PDF file; 1.4 MB ).

personal data
SURNAME	Altheim-Stiehl, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steal, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Forst (Lausitz)

[1] Sylvia Paletschek : Ermentrude and her sisters. The first habilitation women historians in Germany. In: Henning Albrecht et al. (Ed.): Political history of society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Festival ceremony for Barbara Vogel. Krämer, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89622-079-9 , pp. 175–187, here p. 181 ( PDF file; 1.4 MB ).