Ulrich Wilcken
Ulrich Wilcken (born December 18, 1862 in Stettin , † December 10, 1944 in Baden-Baden ) was a German ancient historian and papyrologist .
Life
After studying history and Oriental studies at the Universities of Leipzig , Tübingen and Berlin Wilcken in 1885 with a thesis on the Roman Egypt based on the Berlin papyri doctorate . His most important academic teacher was Theodor Mommsen , who continued to support him and gave him a job cataloging the papyri of the Royal Library in Berlin. Wilcken went on various study trips and completed his habilitation in ancient history in 1888.
In 1889 he became associate professor for ancient history at the University of Breslau (as successor of Eduard Meyers ) at the intercession of Mommsen , where he prevailed against Karl Julius Beloch thanks to Mommsen's help . In 1900 he was appointed to the University of Würzburg , in 1903 to the University of Halle (again as Eduard Meyer's successor), in 1906 to the one in Leipzig, where he became a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig in the same year , to the University of Bonn in 1912 and in 1915 to the Munich University , where he headed both the Department of Ancient History and the Department of Papyrus studies and was appointed a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the same year . Wilcken changed universities for the last time in 1917 when he succeeded Otto Hirschfeld in Berlin. He was a member of the Saxon Society of Sciences (since 1906), the Prussian Academy of Sciences (since 1921), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome (since 1921), the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (since 1921), the British Academy (since 1926) and the then Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1931). In 1931 he retired .
Services
Wilcken was the pioneer of Greco-Roman papyrology in Germany. With the support of Theodor Mommsen he created extensive corpora of the Ptolemaic papyrus documents and the ostraka and in 1901 founded the specialist journal Archive for Papyrus Research and Related Areas . Since then, among other things, his indispensable documentary report, the review of newly published editions of documentary papyri, which is continued to this day, has appeared in this. His papyrological introduction and selection collection ( basics and chrestomathy of papyrus studies ), which he wrote together with Ludwig Mitteis , was fundamental in academic teaching for a long time. Wilcken's Greek History was also published again and again over the decades and was regarded as a standard work at least until the 1960s .
Fonts
- Observationes ad historiam Aegypti provinciae Romanae depromptae e papyris Graecis Berolinensibus ineditis . Haack, Berlin 1885.
- Greek ostraka from Egypt and Nubia. A contribution to ancient economic history . 2 volumes. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig 1899. Reprinted by Hakkert, Amsterdam 1970.
- Fundamentals and chrestomathy of papyrus studies . Volume 1: Historical Part (in two halves). Leipzig 1912. (Volume 2: Legal part by Ludwig Mitteis.)
- Greek history in the context of ancient history . Oldenbourg, Munich 1924; 9th edition 1962 (reviewed by Günther Klaffenbach ).
- Documents from the Ptolemaic period (older finds) . 2 volumes. de Gruyter, Berlin 1927, reprint 1977, ISBN 3-11-005711-5 .
- Alexander the Great . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1931.
- The Bremen papyri . Berlin 1936
- On the origin of the Hellenistic cult of the king. In: Meeting reports of the Prussian (Berlin) Academy of Sciences (SBB), 1938, p. 298f.
literature
- Leopold Wenger : Ulrich Wilcken †. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romance Department. Volume 65, 1947, pp. XI-XX.
- Wilhelm Schubart : Ulrich Wilcken †. In: Gnomon . Volume 21, 1949, pp. 88-90.
- Friedrich Zucker : Obituary Ulrich Wilcken. In: Archives for Papyrus Research . Volume 15, 1953, pp. 1-3.
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling: Wilcken, Ulrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1546-1551.
- Jakob Seibert : Ulrich Wilcken. Professor in Munich October 1, 1915– October 1, 1917. In: Jakob Seibert (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901-2001). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 , pp. 46-49.
- Günter Poethke : Ulrich Wilcken (1862-1944). In: Mario Capasso (Ed.): Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology. Pisa 2007, pp. 81-96 (with picture).
- Thomas Kruse : Knowledge from the smallest individual parts. The ancient historian Ulrich Wilcken and papyrology in Germany. In: Annette M. Baertschi, Colin G. King (ed.): The modern fathers of antiquity. The development of classical studies at the academy and university in Berlin in the 19th century (= Transformations of Antiquity. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, pp. 503-528.
- Bernhard Palme: Wilcken, Ulrich. 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. 1317-1320.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Wilcken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Selected literature in the holdings of the Berlin Academy Library (PDF file; 72 kB)
- Overview of Ulrich Wilcken's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1906 to winter semester 1911)
- Portrait of Ulrich Wilcken
- Entry on Ulrich Wilcken in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the SAW: Ulrich Wilcken. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed December 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Jakob Seibert : "From seminar to seminar". In: Derselbe (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901–2001) (= Ludovico Maximilianea. Research and sources. Volume 19). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 , pp. 23–39, here p. 24.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 259.
- ^ Fellows: Ulrich Wilcken. British Academy, accessed August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-932
Chair: Georg Friedrich Unger (1877–1900) | Ulrich Wilcken (1900–1903) | Julius Kaerst (1903-1929) | Joseph Vogt (1929–1936) | Alexander Schenk Count von Stauffenberg (1936–1942) | Wilhelm Enßlin (1943–1952) | Hermann Bengtson (1952–1963) | Dieter Timpe (1964–1997) Karlheinz Dietz (1998–2012) | Rene Pfeilschifter (since 2012)
Professorship: Hans-Joachim Gehrke (1982–1984) | Karlheinz Dietz (1985–1998)
Eduard Meyer (1889–1902) | Ulrich Wilcken (1903–1906) | Benedikt Niese (1906–1910) | Ernst von Stern (1911–1924) | Wilhelm Weber (1925–1931) | Richard Laqueur (1932-1936) | Franz Altheim (1948–1950) | Hans-Joachim Diesner (1958–1977) | Andreas Mehl (1992–2011) Stefan Pfeiffer (since 2013)
Chair / First Professorship: ( Ludwig Lange (1871–1885)) | Kurt Wachsmuth (1886–1905) | Ulrich Wilcken (1906–1912) | Karl Julius Beloch (1912–1913) | Johannes Kromayer (1913–1927) | Helmut Berve (1927–1943) | Wilhelm Schubart (1946–1952) | Rigobert Günther (1965–1992) | Charlotte Schubert (since 1993)
Honorary Professor for Papyrology: Reinhold Scholl (since 1993)
Professor of Ancient Educational History : Ernst Bux (1948–1951)
Extraordinary / Extraordinary Professorships: Victor Gardthausen (1877–1921) | Eduard Meyer (1885) | Conrad Cichorius (1895–1900) | Otto Theodor Schulz (1920–1954) | Gottfried Härtel (1976–1990)
First chair: Arnold Dietrich Schaefer (1865–1883) | Heinrich Nissen (1884–1911) | Ulrich Wilcken (1912–1915) | Conrad Cichorius (1916–1928) | Friedrich Oertel (1929–1952) | Johannes Straub (1953–1982) | Klaus Rosen (1982–2002) | Winfried Schmitz (since 2003)
Second chair: Hatto H. Schmitt (1965–1978) | Gerhard Wirth (1979–1991) | Hartmut Galsterer (1992-2004) | Konrad Vössing (since 2005)
First chair: Robert Pöhlmann (1901–1914) | Ulrich Wilcken (1915–1917) | Walter Otto (1918–1941) | Helmut Berve (1943–1945) | Alexander Schenk Count von Stauffenberg (1948–1964) | Hermann Bengtson (1966–1977) | Hatto H. Schmitt (1978-1998) | Martin Zimmermann (since 2002)
Second chair: Siegfried Lauffer (1963–1979) | Christian Meier (1981-1997) | Jens-Uwe Krause (since 1998)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilcken, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian and papyrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1944 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |