Arnaldo Momigliano

Arnaldo Momigliano Dante ( born September 5, 1908 in Caraglio, Piedmont, † September 1, 1987 in London ) was an Italian historian who was known for his work on historiography. Donald Kagan called him "the most important scholars in relation to the writing of history in the ancient world. "

Life

Momigliano was born in a strictly orthodox Jewish parents. His parents and many of his family members did not survive the Holocaust. He studied classical philology and history in Rome and Turin.

In 1936 he became professor of Roman history at the University of Turin, but as a Jew he lost this position in 1938 due to the anti-Jewish laws. Momigliano then moved to England, where he stayed. After some time he taught at Oxford University, he moved to the University College London, where he was Professor of Ancient History from 1951 to 1975. Throughout his career, he taught in the context of several visiting professorships, including at the École Normale Supérieure and at numerous universities in Israel. Most recently, he was a professor of ancient history at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and Alexander White Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Momigliano was also the holder of numerous honorary doctorates. In 1960 he was awarded an Antonio Feltrinelli Prize.

Research

The scientists universally educated dealt mainly with the history of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish world and their interactions. Mostly he pursued the question of the historical, ideological and political conditions under which historians - and modern - history writing. Thus Momigliano is one of the pioneers of the history of historiography. One of his main areas of research was the history of science of antiquity and humanism - here particularly that of the German-speaking area. Momigliano also dealt with of late antiquity, and he was there in the 1950s and 60s alongside Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and Ronald Syme one of the most influential researchers.

In the thirties he wrote numerous biographies for the Enciclopedia Italiana, and in the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed biographies to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Encyclopaedia Britannica at. Momigliano has written numerous monographs and hundreds of scientific articles and studies.

Some of his essays were posthumously collected in individual volumes and published.

Writings (selection )

  • Selected writings on the history and historiography. Metzler, Stuttgart 1998/2000, ISBN 3-476-01514-9
  • Paths in the old world. Neuaufl. Fischer -Taschenbuch -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-596-12285-6 ( Nachdr d Ed Berlin 1991).
  • The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography ( " Le Radicci classiche della moderna storiografia "). University Press, Berkeley, Calif. 1991, ISBN 0-520-06890-4.
  • The Jews in the Old World. Wagenbach, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8031-5105-8 ( Small cultural sciences library; Vol. 5).
  • On Pagans, Jews and Christians. University Press, Middletown, Conn. 1987, ISBN 0-8195-5173-2.
  • How to Reconcile Greeks and Trojans. North -Holland Press, Amsterdam, 1983, ISBN 0-4448-5576-9.
  • Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography. University Press, Middletown, Conn. 1977, ISBN 0-8195-5010-8.
  • Advanced civilizations in Hellenism. The encounter with the Greeks, Celts, Jews, Romans and Persians ( "Alien Wisdom. The Limits of Hellenization "). Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-06790-5 ( Beck Black Series, Vol 190).
  • Contributo alla storia degli studi classici, 10 volumes, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 1955-2012.
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