Wolfgang Orth

Wolfgang Orth (born May 23, 1944 in Immenstadt im Allgäu ; † October 1, 2017 in Wuppertal ) was a German ancient historian .

Wolfgang Orth attended school in Munich. From 1963 he studied classical philology and history in Tübingen and Munich . He finished his studies in 1968 with the state examination. Orth was in 1970 at the University of Munich with one of Hermann Bengtson supervised work on the provincial policy of Tiberius Dr. phil. PhD. He completed his habilitation in Munich in the 1975/76 winter semester with the work entitled Royal Claim to Power and Urban Freedom, which was thematically inspired by Bengtson . Investigations into the political relations between the first Seleucid rulers and the states of western Asia Minor . In the same year he became a private lecturer in Munich and in 1977 went to the University of Münster as an academic adviser and professor of ancient history . From 1988 Orth was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wuppertal . There he earned merits in building up the newly created chair. He retired in 2009. His urn was buried in Herrsching am Ammersee .

Orth was mainly concerned with Hellenism and the Roman Empire . With his dissertation, he closed a research gap in the early Principate . For the first time, he researched the provincial administration, which was so important under Tiberius, using the entire source inventory. In his habilitation thesis he examined the royal claim to power and urban freedom in Hellenism. He published a monograph on the Diadoch period in the Spiegel der Historischen Geographie (1993) and a presentation on Isokrates (2003).

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The provincial politics of Tiberius. Dissertation, Munich 1970.
• Royal claim to power and urban freedom. Investigations into the political relations between the first Seleucid rulers (Seleukos I, Antiochus I, Antiochos II.) And the cities of western Asia Minor . Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-06511-2 (habilitation thesis).
• The time of the Diadochs as reflected in historical geography. Commentary on the TAVO map BV 2 "Diadochin Empire (around 303 BC)" (= supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series B, Humanities , No. 80). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-88226-581-7 .

Editorships

• Isocrates. New Approaches to Evaluating a Political Writer. WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2003, ISBN 978-3-88476-584-5 .

literature

• Jens-Frederik Eckholdt (Ed.): Events and memory. The Hellenistic world and its effects. Festschrift for Wolfgang Orth on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Lit, Berlin, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10154-9 (Bibliography Orth, p. 411 ff.).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Orth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Historian Prof. Wolfgang Orth has died . Communication from the University of Wuppertal, October 5, 2017

Remarks

1. ↑ See the review by Gerhard Dobesch in: Wiener Studien. Journal of Classical Philology, Patristics and Latin Tradition , New Series, Volume 6 (Volume 85), 1972, p. 246.