Alfred von Domaszewski

Alfred von Domaszewski ( born October 30, 1856 in Temesvár, then in Hungary, now Romania, † March 25, 1927 in Munich ) was an Austria - Hungarian historian.

Domaszewski was the son of 1881 died in Adige Valley engineer Victor von Domaszewski and Pauline Preyss. He received his doctorate as a philologist in Vienna and was then a high school teacher at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna, from 1886 also lecturer. On behalf of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and funded by the Ministry of Education in Vienna, he worked from 1882 with Carl Humann in Smyrna and on to the reconstruction of the Monumentum Ancyranum.

In 1884 he was hired as Kunstadjunkt at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 1887 he moved to the University of Heidelberg. Along with Rudolf Ernst Brünnow he put on the first map of the ancient city of Petra in present-day Jordan. Launched several occasions it was his work history of the Roman emperors.

His students included Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz.

Writings (selection )

  • Among the animal images of Signa. In: Archaeological and epigraphic releases from Austria - Hungary. Vol 17, 1894, ISSN 0259-1448, pp. 34, excerpts online.
  • The religion of the Roman army. In: West German magazine of History and Art. Vol 14, 1895, ZDB - ID 200652-2, pp. 1-124 ( offprint: Lintz'sche bookstore, Trier 1895; Reprints: Arno Press, New York, NY, 1975, ISBN 0-405-07012-8, digitized ( PDF; 4.22 MB ) ).
  • Described the Provincia Arabia due to two undertaken in the years 1897 and 1898 trips and the reports of earlier travelers: Rudolf Ernst Brünnow. 3 volumes. Trübner, Strasbourg 1904-1909 (reprint: Olms, Hildesheim, 2004 ). Volume 1: The Roman road from Madeba about Petra and O_dru.h to El- A.kaba. 1904 ( ISBN 3-487-12611-7 Nachdruck. );
  • Volume 2: The outer limit and the Roman roads of El - Maan to Bo.sra. 1905 ( ISBN 3-487-12612-5 Nachdruck. );
  • Volume 3: The west of Bosra Hauran to ES Šuhba and the area around the Damascene Meadow Lakes to ED Ḍumêr. Along with an Appendix on the Roman fortifications of Masada and an overview of the history of the province of Arabia. 1909 ( ISBN 3-487-12613-3 Nachdruck. ).
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