Géza Alföldy
Géza Alföldy ( born June 7, 1935 in Budapest, † November 6, 2011 in Athens ) was a Hungarian- German historian.
Life
From 1953 to 1958 Géza Alföldy studied at the University of Budapest, where he witnessed first hand the Hungarian uprising. 1957-1960 was Alföldy staff at Metropolitan Museum Budapest. During this time, followed in 1959 the PhD ( Doctorate ). From 1960 to 1965 he was Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Budapest. In 1965 he emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany and was initially from 1965 to 1968 worked as assistant at the Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn. During this time, Alföldy 1966 Habilitation at the University of Bonn, where he was also a 1968-1970 university lecturer and finally took an extraordinary professorship. In the same year he became a full Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bochum. From 1975 until his retirement in 2002 Alföldy was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg. Even after the new appointment of the Chair in 2004, he taught until 2005 in self-advocacy. In 2003, he also served as a historical consultant for the two-part historical drama Augustus - My father the Emperor with Peter O'Toole in the title role.
On November 6, 2011 Alföldy died during a visit to the Acropolis of Athens, a heart attack, just weeks after the release of the new and revised edition of his Roman social history. He was traveling to Corfu, where he 9 November 2011 the honorary doctorate from the university there should have been awarded.
Work
Research priorities were Alföldys the history and epigraphy of the Roman Empire, Roman social, military and administrative history, the history of the Roman provinces, the historiography of the imperial period and Late Antiquity and the Roman prosopography. In the 1990s Alföldy also dealt with the modern history of his native country Hungary. Alföldys work was influenced by the methodological postulate an interdisciplinary approach: Epigraphic evidence may therefore not be considered as isolated texts, but must in the context of the archaeological finding, in the light of social, administrative, economic, legal, army and domination historical framework interpreted and made to speak in terms of a historical issue. Accordingly far stretched hence should be the methodological skills and the knowledge horizon of working with epigraphic sources historian, whereupon Alföldy in teaching attached great importance.
As part of his epigraphic studies toured Géza Alföldy various countries ( Albania, Algeria, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Yugoslavia, Libya, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Hungary and Cyprus ) to there to explore inscriptions in the original and to enable its students with the encounter with the original monuments on site. The fact that a humanities have to be multilingual, of course, was for him.
Due to the numerous trips and invitations by scholars to Heidelberg and through close cooperation in research activities Alföldy built over the years a very dense network of relationships with colleagues at home and abroad, which he combined with his extensive publication record high international awareness gave, which was reflected in an abundance of corresponding activities. So Alföldy has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1972 /73), in Rome in 1986 and 2003, in Paris in 1991 and Pécs ( there also 1993), in Poznań in 1992, Budapest in 1993 and in Barcelona in 1997 and 1998. in addition, he regularly gave scientific lectures at home and abroad and supervised a large number of young researchers during their doctoral or habilitation (more than a dozen alone since 1992).
Alföldy also emerged as co-editor of numerous international journals and book series; particularly associated with his name are the old and historic Heidelberg posts and Epigraphic Studies ( habes ), which he edited alone since 1986. Alföldy was a corresponding member or honorary member of many scientific societies and academies and tidy since 1978 Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Operating in the science organization he was out at the Heidelberg Academy in many other German research institutions, such as the German Research Foundation and the German Archaeological Institute, also in Italian, French and Spanish facilities for the exploration of classical antiquity. In particular, he was project (1992-2007), multiple publisher and author of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL ) of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. With the resources of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which he received one of the few scholars in the arts in 1986, he went to the construction of the Epigraphic database Heidelberg, which he headed from 1986 to 2006.
Writings (selection )
- Population and society of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1965.
- The Legionslegaten the Roman Rhine armies. Cologne, Böhlau Verlag, 1967 ( Epigraphic studies 3 Supplements Bonn yearbooks 22).
- Epigraphic studies. Anthology. Rheinland -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1968 ( Epigraphic studies 5).
- The auxiliary troops of the Roman province of Germania Inferior. Rheinland -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1968 ( Epigraphic studies 6).
- Fasti Hispanienses. Senatorial imperial officials and officers in the Spanish provinces of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1969.
- The persons named in the Roman province of Dalmatia. Winter, Heidelberg, 1969 ( Contributions to the name of research, Supplement 4).
- Epigraphic studies. Anthology. Rheinland -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1969 ( Epigraphic Studies 8 ).
- Flamens provinciae Hispaniae Citerioris. Archeology CSIC, Madrid 1973.
- Problems of historical science. Educational Publishing Schwann, Dusseldorf, 1973 ( history and society. Bochum Historical Studies ).
- Noricum. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1974, ISBN 0-7100-7372-0.
- Roman social history. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-515-02045-4 ( paperback Scientific Social and Economic History Vol 84). Fourth, completely revised and updated edition: Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09841-0.
- The Roman inscriptions of Tarraco. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1975, ISBN 3-11-004403- X ( Madrid researches 10).
- Los Baebii de Saguntum. Servicio de Investigacion Prehistorica, Valencia 1977.
- Consulate and senatorial under the Antonines. Prosopographical studies on the senatorial elite. Habelt, Bonn 1977.
- The role of the individual in the society of the Roman Empire. Expectations and values . University Carl Winter Verlag, Heidelberg, 1980 ( Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Year 1980, 8).
- Sir Ronald Syme, ' The Roman Revolution ' and the German ancient history. In 1983.
- Roman statues in Venetia et Histria: Epigraphic sources. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1984 ( Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Philosophical- Historical Class Year 1984, 3).
- Roman cities beings on the neukastilischen plateau. A test case for the romanization. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1987 ( Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1987 vintage, 3).
- Ancient slavery. Contradictions, special forms, basic structures. In 1988.
- The obelisk in St. Peter's Square in Rome. A historical monument of antiquity. Heidelberg 1990.
- The building inscriptions of the aqueduct of Segovia and the amphitheater of Tarraco. de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-014418-2 ( Madrid researches 19).
- Hungary 1956. Rebellion, revolution, fight for freedom. 2nd edition. University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0553-8 ( writings of the philosophical- historical class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 2).
- The Roman society. Selected contributions. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998.
- The crisis of the Roman Empire. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998.
- Cities, elites and societies in Cisalpine Gaul. Epigraphic and historical studies. Steiner, Stuttgart 1999.
- The Roman Empire - a model for a united Europe? Schwabe, Basel 1999 ( Jacob Burckhardt talks on Castelen 9).
- Provincia Hispania superior Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg 2000 ( writings of the philosophical- historical class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 19).
- With Silvio Panciera (ed.): epigraphic monuments as media of self-expression in the Roman world. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001.