Ernst Kornemann was a German ancient historian

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

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Biography

He studied at Giessen

University of Giessen

The University of Giessen is officially called the Justus Liebig University Giessen after its most famous faculty member, Justus von Liebig, the founder of modern agricultural chemistry and inventor of artificial fertiliser.-History:The University of Gießen is among the oldest institutions of...

 (1878–89) and Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

 (1889–92), and took the degree of doctor of philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

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 (1891); he was appointed assistant professor teaching under the faculty (1892). He became privatdocent of ancient history at Giessen (1892) and then professor at Tübingen (1902). With Dr. Lehmann-Haupt, of Liverpool

Liverpool

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, he established the periodical Klio, dedicated to ancient history.

Literary works

• 1891 De civibus Romanis in provinciis imperii consistentibus.
• 1896 Die historische Schriftstellerei des Consuls Asinius Pollio.
• 1903 Zur Geschichte der Graechenzeit.
• 1904 Die neue Livius-Epitome aus Oxyrhynchus.
• 1905 Kaiser Hadrian und der letzte grosse Historiker von Rom.
• 1912 Priesterkodex in der Regia und die Entstehung der altrömische Pseudogeschichte.
• 1921 Mausoleum und Tatenbericht des Augustus, Leizpg: Teubner.
• 1923 Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft (hrsgg. von A. Gercke und E. Norden; Bd. 3, Halbband 2).
• 1926 Vom antiken Staat, Berlin: Ferdinand Hirt.
• 1927 Die Stellung der Frau in der vorgriechischen Mittelmeerkultur, Heidelberg: C. Winter.
• 1929 Staat und Wirtschaft, Breslau: M.&H. Marcus.
• 1929 Neue Dokumente zum lakonischen Kaiserkult, Breslau: H.&M. Marcus.
• 1930 Doppelprinzipat und Reichsteilung im Imperium Romanum, Leipzig: Teubner.
• 1934 Staaten, Völker, Männer, Leipzig: Dieterich.
• 1934 Die unsichtbaren Grenzen des Römischen Kaiserreiches, Budapest: Ungarische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• 1937 Augustus, Breslau: Priebatsch's Buchhandlung.
• 1941 Das Imperium Romanum, Breslau: Korn.
• 1942 Große Frauen des Altertums, Leipzig: Dieterich.
• 1943 Gestalten und Reiche, Leipzig: Dieterich.
• 1946 Tacitus, Wiesbaden: Dieterich.
• 1947 Das Prinzipat des Tiberius und der „Genius Senatus“, München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie des Wissenschaften.
• 1949 Weltgeschichte des Mittelmeerraumes. Von Philipp II. von Makedonien bis Muhammed, herausgegeben von Hermann Bengtson (Teilabdruck 1978: Geschichte der Spätantike)

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