Wilhelm Henzen

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Wilhelm Henzen, around 1863
Henzen's grave in the Protestant cemetery of Rome .

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (born January 24, 1816 in Bremen , † January 27, 1887 in Rome ) was a German epigraphist .

Life

Wilhelm Henzen studied philology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin from 1836 to 1840 and received his doctorate in 1840 with a thesis on Polybios . He then traveled to Italy and Greece for archaeological research and became the second secretary of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in 1843 and first after Emil Braun's death in 1856 . In 1844 he married Auguste Francke (1817–1869) from Güstrow , a daughter of superintendent Heinrich Francke (1766–1838) and sister of the painter Pauline Steinhäuser and the writerHeinrich Friedrich Francke .

Since 1853 he was a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , since 1860 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and since 1876 a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

Henzen made a particularly good contribution to the Latin epigraphy . After various individual studies, he published a supplement volume on Johann Caspar von Orelli's Inscriptionum latinarum collectio in 1856 . He was with Theodor Mommsen and Giovanni Battista de Rossi since 1853 a member of the main editorial staff for the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum published by the Berlin Academy . Henzen collected the urban Roman inscriptions and published the fasti consulares and acts of triumphalism for the first volume, which contained the inscriptions up to the death of Gaius Iulius Caesar . Together with Eugen Bormann and Christian Hülsen he was the editor of parts 1 to 3 and 5 of the 6th volume with the urban Roman inscriptions of the imperial era (1876 ff.). Outside the corpus, Henzen published the files of the Fratres Arvales , as well as many contributions to magazines and compilations, especially to the Bullettino and the Annali of the Archaeological Institute as well as to the Ephemeris epigraphica. Corporis inscriptionum latinarum supplementum .

Fonts

  • Vol. 6 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , Berlin 1876 ff.
  • Supplementary volume to Orelli's Inscriptionum latinarum collectio , Zurich 1856.
  • Scavi nel bosco dei fratelli Arvali , Rome 1868.
  • Acta fratrum Arvalium, quae supersunt , Berlin 1874.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Kolbe (editor.): Wilhelm Henzen and the institute on the Capitol. From Henzen's letters to Eduard Gerhard. Mainz am Rhein 1984 ISBN 3-8053-0398-X ( The German Archaeological Institute, History and Documents . 5).
  • Eugen Petersen :  Henzen, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 207-215.
  • Karl von Prantl: Wilhelm Henzen. In: Meeting reports of the philosophical-philological and historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich 1887, Vol. 1, pp. 271-276.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Johann Wilhelm Henzen. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 17, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Henzen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henzen, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1887
Place of death Rome