Siegfried Lauffer

Siegfried Lauffer (born August 4, 1911 in Stuttgart , † April 2, 1986 in Munich ) was a German ancient historian .

Life

After graduating from the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Schöntal-Urach , Lauffer began studying history, classical philology and German in Tübingen. He moved to Berlin, Vienna, in turn, Tübingen and Vienna, where he in 1934 Adolf Wilhelm with a dissertation on The Platonic agriculture received his doctorate. After the state examination in Tübingen in 1935, he worked as a teacher in Württemberg from 1936 to 1946, interrupted, however, by longer leave of absence for research work. He traveled to Greece several times and carried out regional studies , especially in Boiotia , even at the beginning of the German occupation of Greece in World War II. From April 1942 until the end of the war, Lauffer was a medical soldier and during this time was able to do his habilitation at the Berlin University, sponsored by Wilhelm Weber , through Imperium .

In 1945 Lauffer escaped from Soviet captivity and returned to Tübingen, where he worked again as a teacher until 1946, then as a lecturer and lecturer at the university. In 1949 he completed his habilitation from Berlin to Munich and became a private lecturer and (from January 1950) research assistant at the seminar for ancient history there. In the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy founded in 1951 , he became a representative of the non-ordinaries. In 1955 Lauffer became an adjunct professor in Munich and in 1963, after he had refused an appointment at the University of Bonn, a scheduled adjunct professor for "Ancient history with special consideration of social and economic history". After the rejection of further calls to Salzburg and Vienna, Lauffer became a full professor in 1967. He retired in 1979, but held regular lectures until shortly before his death in 1986.

Services

The most important topics in Lauffer's research were the geography of ancient Boiotia, especially the Kopaïs region, and ancient economic history (such as the basic monograph on The Mining Slaves of Laureion , the edition of Diocletian's price edict and a project to collect data on prices and wages in the ancient).

He also wrote a repeatedly published outline of ancient history , a brief history of the ancient world and a biography of Alexander the great , as well as school wall maps on ancient times. In television programs in the 1960s and as a tour guide, he also conveyed knowledge of antiquity in a popular form. His biography of Alexander the Great was "excellent because of his [sic] sobriety and because of the precise source and literature evidence for each statement," said Wolfgang Schuller .

Fonts (selection)

• as editor: Greece. Lexicon of historical sites from the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33302-8 .
• Copais. Studies on the historical geography of Central Greece. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1986, ISBN 3-8204-8573-2 .
• Alexander the Great (= dtv 4298). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-04298-2 .
• The Roman Empire. Development - expansion - decline. 18 work banners, 27 × 30 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1977.
• Gaul, Germania and Britain in Roman times. School wall map, 1: 1,000,000, 126 × 162 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1974.
• Brief history of the ancient world. 2 volumes (Vol. 1: Greece. Vol. 2: Rome. ). Callwey, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7667-0192-4 (modified reprint. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-8289-0769-5 ).
• The Roman Empire. School wall map with side maps, 1: 2,000,000, 246 × 160 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1971.
• as editor: Diocletian's price edict (= texts and comments. 5, ISSN  0563-3087 ). de Gruyter, Berlin 1971.
• Greek history. Unverhau, Munich 1969.
• The cultural realms of the ancient Orient. School wall map, 1: 2,500,000, 188 × 113.8 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1963.
• as translator: Samivel (di Paul Gayet-Tancrède): Under Homer's sun. From Minos to Pericles. Droemer / Knaur, Munich et al. 1962.
• Classical Greece. School wall map with side map, 3 sheets, 1: 500,000, 2 sheets each 129 × 88.1 cm., 1 sheet 139.8 × 101.8 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1961.
• Ancient history outline. Oldenbourg, Munich 1956, (Strongly expanded new edition as: Dates of Greek and Roman History (= dtv 3275). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-423-03275-8 ; in Dutch: De klassieke geschiedenis in jaartallen ( = Aula 406, ZDB -ID 256541-9 ). Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht et al. 1969).
• The empire of Alexander the great. School wall map, 3 sheets, 1: 2,500,000, each 104.5 × 75 cm. Perthes, Darmstadt 1956.
• The mining slaves of Laureion. 2 volumes. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 1956–1957;
  • Part 1: Employment and company relationships, legal status (= Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born in 1955, No. 12, ISSN  0002-2977 ). 1956;
  • Part 2: Social conditions, uprisings (= Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1956, No. 11). 1957.

literature

• Hansjörg Kalcyk, Brigitte Gullath , Andreas Graeber (eds.): Studies on ancient history. Siegfried Lauffer on his 70th birthday on August 4, 1981, offered by friends, colleagues and students (= Historica. Volume 2). 3 volumes, Giorgio Bretschneider, Rome 1986, ISBN 88-85007-70-8 (with list of publications on pp. XIII – XVIII).
• Hartmut Beister, John Buckler (ed.): Boiotika. Lectures from the 5th International Boeotia Colloquium in honor of Professor Dr. Siegfried Lauffer (= Munich works on ancient history. Volume 2). Editio Maris, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-925801-04-9 (with photography, curriculum vitae, additions to the list of publications and personal appreciations on pp. 6-14).
• Hartmut Beister: Siegfried Lauffer. In: Jakob Seibert (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901-2001) (= Ludovico Maximilianea. Research. Vol. 19). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 , pp. 137-159.
• Hans Kloft : Lauffer, Siegfried. 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. 705-707.

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Lauffer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Schuller: Alexander the Great. In: Wilfried Nippel (Ed.): Virtuosos of Power. Rule and charisma from Pericles to Mao. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46045-3 , p. 292.