Conrad Cichorius

Conrad Cichorius ( born May 25, 1863 in Leipzig, † January 20, 1932 in Bonn ) was a German historian and philologist Classic.

Life

Cichorius visited the Nicholas School of his native city of Leipzig and studied from 1882 to 1887 at the Universities of Freiburg, Leipzig and Berlin, where among others, Theodor Mommsen. Since 1883 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg.

In 1887 he received his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on the Roman Konsularfasten. In 1888 he qualified as a professor also at the University of Leipzig with a thesis on Rome and Mytilene, and was a lecturer, associate professor in 1895. 1900 Cichorius received a reputation as a full professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University. In 1916 he moved to the University of Bonn, whose rector he was in the academic year 1923/24.

Cichorius was the first German historian who published the reliefs of Trajan's Column. Among his students in Wroclaw belonged Walter Otto and Helmut Berve.

Writings (selection )

  • Rome and Mytilene. Teubner, Leipzig, 1888.
  • The reliefs of Trajan's Column. Berlin 1896.
  • The reliefs of the monument of Adamklissi. Leipzig 1897.
  • Investigations to Lucilius. Berlin 1908.
  • Roman studies. Historical, Epigraphic, Historical literature from four centuries of Rome. Leipzig / Berlin, 1922.
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