Walter Barthel (archaeologist)

Eduard Walter Barthel (also Walther Barthel , born August 28, 1880 in Elberfeld , † July 16, 1915 near Ban-de-Sapt , France ) was a German ancient historian and Roman provincial archaeologist .

Life

Walter Barthel was the son of the company treasurer Gotthard Barthel and his wife Emma, ​​née Heuser. He briefly attended the Progymnasium in Altena , where the family had moved. Barthel attended grammar school again in Elberfeld from 1894 . His father died in 1896. Three years later Barthel left high school with the school leaving certificate and studied at the University of Greifswald the subjects classical philology and history. In addition to the lectures on philology (with Alfred Körte , Alfred Gercke and Wilhelm Kroll ), Barthel was particularly drawn to ancient history, whose representative Otto Seeck had a strong influence on Barthel. In the 1900 summer semester, Barthel went to the University of Freiburg for a year , where he studied ancient history, archeology and ethnology. Especially Karl Dove , Ernst Fabricius and Otto Puchstein exercised decisive influence over Barthel. In 1904 Barthel received his doctorate with a dissertation on the history of the Roman cities in Africa , which was clearly influenced by Dove and Fabricius.

After completing his studies, Barthel turned to provincial Roman archeology . From 1905 he worked as an assistant at the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt. From 1908 to 1909 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled him to deepen his research. In May 1911 he was awarded a position as an assistant to the Reich Limes Commission , which he took up on August 1. At the same time he did his habilitation, which he achieved in 1913 at the Frankfurt Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences .

In the winter semester of 1914/15 he accepted a professorship for Ancient History at the newly founded Frankfurt University . He did not take up the professorship, however, as he was immediately elected director of the Roman-Germanic Commission, in February 1915 he was appointed full honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt. However, this place could not compete Barthel, as it is at the outbreak of the First World War had volunteered. On the night of July 15-16, 1915, he fell near Ban-de-Sapt in the Vosges.

literature

• Friedrich Koepp , Wilhelm Weber : Walther Barthel in memory . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission Vol. 9, 1916, pp. 1–13 (with list of publications).
• Peter Scholz : The ancient history at the University of Frankfurt 1914–1955 , in: Encounters. Frankfurt und die Antike , Frankfurt 1994, pp. 441–443 Fig. 172
• Siegmar von Schnurbein : Outline of the development of the Roman-Germanic Commission under the individual directors from 1911–2002 . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission, Vol. 82, 2001, pp. 137–289.
• Miriam Etti: "So he has already earned his canonization". Walther Barthel as the editor of the train jacket finds in the mirror of the letters left behind in the Saalburg archive . In: Non solum ... sed etiam. Festschrift for Thomas Fischer on his 65th birthday . Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2015, ISBN 978-3-89646-081-3 , pp. 127-130.

Web links

Wikisource: Walter Barthel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He used this form of name himself in the CV of his dissertation, p. 69, see curriculum vitae .
2. ↑ Landwehr Infantry Regiment 80, 12th Company; Prussian list of losses No. 293 of August 5, 1915, p. 7993 / German list of losses .