Wolfgang Günther (ancient historian)

Wolfgang Günther (* 1940 ) is a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

He studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , passed the first state examination in 1965 and the second state examination in 1969. In 1971 he was in Tübingen because of epigraphic work on the oracle of Apollo in Didyma to Dr. phil. PhD . From August 1, 1973 until his retirement in 2005, he worked as the successor to Wilhelm Kaltenstadler as an Academic Councilor (later Academic Senior Counselor) at the Institute for Ancient History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (which was transferred to the "Department for Ancient History of the Historical Seminary ”). He is a member of the Bavarian Numismatic Society and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Wolfgang Günther's research focuses on researching the inscriptions of Didyma , Aizanoi and Miletus . He worked on the compilation "Greece - Lexicon of Historic Places" edited by Siegfried Lauffer and on the source collection of historical Greek inscriptions in translation .

Günther is married to the ancient historian Linda-Marie Günther .

Works

• The oracle of Didyma in the Hellenistic period. An interpretation of Stein documents (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen. Supplement 4). Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1971 (also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1969).
• as ed. with Kai Brodersen and Hatto H. Schmitt : Historical Greek inscriptions in translation . 3 volumes, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1992–1999, ISBN 3-534-23997-0 .
• with Peter Herrmann and Norbert Ehrhardt : Inscriptions from Miletus. Part 3: Inscriptions n. 1020–1580 (= Miletus. Results of excavations and investigations since 1899. Volume 6, part 3). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018966-6 .
• with Axel Filges: Didyma. Part 3: Results of the excavations and investigations since 1962. Volume 5: Sculptures and statue bases from the classical era to the imperial era. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3718-2 (Günther as editor of the inscriptions on statue bases from Didyma).
• Miletus. A prosopography, Berlin and Boston 2017 (= Milet VI 4)

literature

• Jakob Seibert (Ed.): 100 Years of Old History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1901-2001) (= Ludovico Maximilianea: Research. Volume 19). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10875-2 , p. 31 with note 21 and p. 221.