Wolfgang Schuller

Wolfgang Schuller (born October 3, 1935 in Berlin ; † April 4, 2020 in Konstanz ) was a German ancient historian , lawyer and contemporary historian . He taught from 1976 until his retirement in 2004 as a professor of ancient history at the University of Konstanz . He worked on Greek and Roman antiquity as well as the history of the GDR .

Live and act

The descendant of the philosopher Johann Caspar Lavater visited, among other things, the free school community Wickersdorf . After graduating from high school in Lüneburg in 1955 , he first studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Université de Lausanne and the University of Hamburg . In 1960 he passed his first state examination in Hamburg and in 1965 his second state examination in Berlin. After the assessor examination, he worked as a research assistant at the law faculty of the University of Hamburg between 1965 and 1967. There, during his doctoral thesis in law, he began studying Classical Antiquities, Egyptology and History. In 1967 he was in Hamburg with a dissertation on political criminal in East Germany from 1945 to 1963 to the Dr. iur. is doing his doctorate and has completed his second degree at the Free University of Berlin . In 1971 he completed his habilitation in ancient history at the FU.

In 1972 he received his first full professorship for ancient history at the PH Berlin . In 1976 he accepted a chair for ancient history at the University of Konstanz, where he remained until his retirement in early 2004. Ulrich Gotter was his successor . In addition to many offices at the University of Konstanz, he also held an honorary professorship at the Romanian partner university, the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași .

Schuller remained scientifically active into old age. In his research, Schuller dealt not only with law but also with gender history and also emerged with several introductory works on antiquity, including as the author of the first volume in the series Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte . He also reached a broader readership with biographies on Cleopatra and Cicero .

Since 1990 Schuller has been a full member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . In addition to antiquity, his research interests also focused on the history of the GDR, on which he has also presented several publications, most recently in 2009 on the events of 1989. Wolfgang Schuller also published numerous articles, not only in ancient historical journals and anthologies, but also in the memorial book for the Carl Schmitt student Roman Schnur and in the magazine Mut . He also edited Carl Schmitt's diaries from 1930 to 1934. Schuller was also a member of the Görres Society .

Wolfgang Schuller died in April 2020 at the age of 84.

Fonts (selection)

• Political criminal law in the GDR 1945–1953. Hamburg 1968 (Hamburg, University, legal dissertation of June 27, 1968).
• The rule of the Athenians in the First Attic League. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1974, ISBN 3-11-004725-X (At the same time: Berlin, Free University, habilitation paper on history, 1971).
• History and structure of the political criminal law of the GDR until 1968. Gremer, Ebelsbach 1980, ISBN 3-88212-015-0 .
• Greek history (= Oldenbourg plan of history . Vol. 1). Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 3-486-49081-8 .
• Women in Greek History (= Konstanz Library. Vol. 3). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1985, ISBN 3-87940-273-6 .
• Women in Roman History (= Konstanz Library. Vol. 4). Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87940-291-4 .
• Introduction to the history of antiquity (= UTB 1794). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8001-2678-8 (In Polish: Wprowadzenie do studium historii starożytnej. Wydawnictwo “Trio”, Warszawa 1997, ISBN 83-85660-56-9 ).
• First Europe. 1000 BC Chr. - 500 AD (= Handbook of the History of Europe. Vol. 1 = UTB 2497). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-2791-1 .
• Cleopatra. Queen of the three cultures. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-498-06364-1 .
• The world of the hetaerae. Famous women between legend and reality. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-96001-3 .
• The German Revolution 1989. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-87134-573-9 .
• As editor in cooperation with Gerd Giesler : Carl Schmitt : Tagebücher 1930 to 1934. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-003842-1 .
• Cicero or the last battle for the republic. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65178-6 .
• Cicero (= Reclam 100 pages) . Reclam, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3150204351 .
• Anatomy of a campaign. Hans Robert Jauß and the public , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96023-126-4 (See: Paul Ingendaay : Die Universität als Pranger. Secrets instead of transparency: Wolfgang Schuller on the posthumous debates about his former Konstanz colleague Hans Robert Jauß. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Feuilleton , No. 4, January 5, 2018, p. 10).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schuller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Wolfgang Schuller on the homepage of the University of Konstanz
• Patrick Bahners: chronicler of his time. On the death of the historian Wolfgang Schuller. In: FAZ.NET from April 7, 2020.
• Gustav Seibt : The ancient historian and GDR expert Wolfgang Schuller was a tireless writer. He died in Constance. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 7, 2020.

Remarks

1. ↑ Gustav Seibt: Wolfgang Schuller has died. Retrieved April 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Schuller: The rule of law with Carl Schmitt. The break of time in the game. In: Rudolf Morsey , Helmut Quaritsch , Heinrich Siedentopf (eds.): State, politics, administration in Europe. Commemorative writing for Roman Schnur. Berlin 1997, pp. 117-133. There you can find the self-citation on p. 130 in FN 58: Imposed blindness. Carl Schmitt as a contemporary phenomenon. In: Courage. Forum for culture, politics and history. No. 357, May 1997, ISSN  0027-5093 , pp. 62-67.
4. ↑ Patrick Bahners : Chronicler of his time. On the death of the historian Wolfgang Schuller. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 2020, No. 83, p. 9

predecessor	Office	successor
first chair holder	Professor of Ancient History at the Pedagogical University Berlin 1972 - 1976	Klaus Meister