Alexander Fuks

Alexander Fuks (* May 30, 1917 in Breslau, † 29 November 1978) was an Israeli historian and papyrologist.

Life

Fuks completed his school education in Breslau. He emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and came to Jerusalem, where he studied at the Hebrew University in 1946 and a Ph.D. obtained. He became in 1962 Professor of Classical Studies. His work was Athenian history. Together with Avigdor Tcherikover he worked at the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicorum. After Tcherikover had died after the publication of the first volume in 1958, Menachem Stern stepped in its place. This monumental work includes papyri and ostraca from Egypt in the period between Alexander the Great and the Arab conquest of the country.

Publications (selection )

  • The Athenian Commonwealth. 1957 [ Hebrew ]
  • Corpus Papyrorum Judaicorum. 3 volumes Cambridge, Mass.:. Harvard University Press from 1957 to 1964.
  • Social Conflict in Ancient Greece. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, inter alia, In 1984. ISBN 965-223-466-4
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