Edmund Buchner

Edmund Buchner ( born October 22, 1923 in Ittling in Straubing, † August 27, 2011 in Munich) was a German historian and president of the German Archaeological Institute.

Life

Buchner was a soldier in World War II. After a prisoner of war in the United States, he studied from 1946 in Erlangen and received his PhD in 1953 with a thesis on the panegyric of Isocrates, and then became assistant to the newly appointed after obtaining Helmut Berve. As Berve 1960 Director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy Munich was, Buchner followed him as a researcher and Secretary of the Commission. From 1969 to 1979 he was professor and first director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy, which now belonged to the German Archaeological Institute, and from 1980 to 1988 president of the German Archaeological Institute.

Buchner was known primarily for his research on the Solarium Augusti, the system with an obelisk which was built on the Campus Martius in Rome, the Roman Emperor Augustus as a giant gnomon. Made famous has made him especially his thesis that the Solarium Augusti was a huge sundial. This assumption, however, is now highly controversial.

Honors

Writings

  • The panegyric of Isocrates. A historical- philological investigation. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958.
  • The Sundial of Augustus. Saverne, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0430-7.
  • New to the sundial of Augustus. In: Nuremberg leaves on Archaeology 10 (1993 /94) pp. 77-84.
  • A channel for the obelisk. News from the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome. In: Ancient World 27 (1996 ), pp. 161-168.
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