Friedrich Münzer
Friedrich Muenzer ( born April 22, 1868 in Opole ( Silesia ), † 20 October 1942 Theresienstadt) was a classical scholar, known for the development of prosopography, particularly for the detection, such as familial relationships in the Roman Empire with the were connected to political struggles.
Life
Coin came from a Jewish merchant family, went to study at the University of Leipzig in 1887 and at the University of Berlin, where he wrote his dissertation De Gente Valeria under the supervision of Otto Hirschfeld. Opponents were Bogdan warriors, Walter Henze and Ernst Kornemann. In 1893 he went to Rome, where Georg Wissowa won him for to write biographical articles for the Pauly - Wissowa. From Rome, he traveled to Athens, where he participated in excavations on the Acropolis. Here he met Clara Engels, who two years later, on September 4, 1897 married.
In the meantime ( 1896) had been Munzer appointed unpaid lecturer at the University of Basel, so he and Clara had to live by her parents, and his biographical articles. In 1902 he was appointed to the second chair of classical philology. In 1912 he accepted a call to Konigsberg, which he was German official.
Clara died on December 15, 1918 during the influenza pandemic (Spanish flu). 1921 took Munzer on a chair at the University of Münster. His most important work, Roman aristocratic parties and noble families, was published in 1920 and brought him for the first time in his life a glory. In 1923 he became dean in 1924, he married Clara Lunke widow, born Ploeger, and thus became stepfather of two teenage children.
Munzer was generally apolitical, 1933 but the policy began to be interested in him as a communist, " non-Aryans " and opponents of the NSDAP were removed from the civil service. Officials from the period before 1914 have been officially released, but his biographers demonstrate his continued employment at the request of influential colleagues and former students back. In January 1935, a new law required the removal of all lecturers and professors who were older than 65 years ( making space for Nazi sympathizers should be created ). Munzer was on 23 July 1935 in Pension.
His second wife died in 1935. 14th November of the same year he was officially classified as a Jew, prompting many friends and colleagues distanced themselves from him. Nevertheless, he continued to work on the biographies of the Pauly - Wissowa, and they were also supposed to be there, contrary to the law, the Jews forbade any journalistic work. 1938 forced him another law to accept a Jewish surname, so it was officially from now on referred to as "the Jew Friedrich Munzer Israel ". In a letter to Ronald Syme December 12, 1938, he wrote that the changed situation deprimiere him deeply, but that he considered his position as significantly better than that of many others.
Despite the insistence of some friends, he refused to emigrate to. In July 1942 he was taken by the Gestapo in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. His adopted daughter, Margaret did manage to achieve some privileges for him, so for example to write and receive letters, and that he was handed his suitcase undamaged. Finally they even reached his release from the concentration camp, but enteritis epidemic (inflammation of the intestinal wall ) had broken out in the camp, where he died the same day on which Margaret received the news that her father should be discharged. His letter copy book in which his letter outputs the years 1906 to 1914 copies, is located in the University Archives of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Works
- Gente De Valeria (1891 )
- The emergence of the histories of Tacitus (1901 )
- Cacus the cattle thief (1911 )
- Roman aristocratic parties and noble families (1920 )
- The emergence of the Roman principate (1927 )
- Numerous articles for the Pauly - Wissowa