Wolf Liebeschuetz

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Wolf Liebeschuetz
Born(1927-06-22)22 June 1927
Hamburg, Germany
Died(2022-07-12)12 July 2022
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Margaret Taylor
​
(m. 1955)​
Children4
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisor
Late Antiquity
Institutions

John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz FBA (22 June 1927 - 11 July 2022[1]) was a German-born British historian who specialized in late antiquity.

Early life

John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz was born in

Holocaust.[6] His father was twice arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after the Kristallnacht of November 1938. The four children had received English lessons since 1934 and were sent to England on 12 December. The parents and two grandmothers followed soon after. [5] The emigration of Hans Liebeschuetz was sponsored by the Warburg Institute, with whom the family had long been closely associated.[7]

After arriving in England, the Liebeschuetz family eventually settled in Epsom. Hans Liebeschuetz taught Latin at a number of schools and after the war he became a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. After his retirement he played an important role in founding the Leo Baeck Institute in London.[5]

Education

Liebeschuetz gained his

National Service in the Canal Zone in Egypt, as a sergeant in the Royal Army Educational Corps. Liebeschuetz studied Ancient and Medieval History at University College London, where his teachers included A. H. M. Jones and John Morris. After graduating in 1951, Liebeschuetz took a one-year postgraduate certificate in education at Westminster College London. He later studied for his Ph.D. at University College London. His supervisor was Arnaldo Momigliano, and Liebeschuetz was able to consult T. B. L. Webster and Robert Browning.[5]

Career

After gaining his doctorate, Liebeschuetz worked from 1958 to 1963 as a teacher mainly at Heanor Grammar School, Derbyshire. In 1963, he was appointed Assistant Lecturer at the Classics Department at the University of Leicester, which was then under the leadership of Professor Abraham Wasserstein.[7] In 1972, he published the monograph Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire.[8]

In 1979, he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the

Roman religion worked and how it was abandoned.[9] In the early 1990s Liebeschuetz became increasingly interested in the role of "barbarians" in the fall of the Western Roman Empire. His Barbarians and Bishops (1990) is concerned with this topic.[10]

Retirement

Liebeschuetz retired in 1992, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy the same year. In 1993 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[5]

Research

The Liebeschuetz's research centred on late antiquity, particularly the nature of Roman cities and Roman religion during this time.[5] He argued that Roman religion remained strong well into late antiquity.[8]

In the later part of his career, Liebeschuetz examined the role of "barbarians" in the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

European federalism.[15]

Personal life

Liebeschuetz married Margaret Taylor in 1955, with whom he had three daughters and one son and five grandchildren.[5]

Selected bibliography

  • Antioch: City and Imperial Administration in the Later Roman Empire.
    ISBN 9780198142959
    .
  • Continuity and Change in Roman Religion.
    ISBN 9780198148227
    .
  • Barbarians and Bishops: Army, Church, and State in the Age of Arcadius and Chrysostom.
    ISBN 9780198148869
    .
  • Decline and Fall of the Roman City.
    ISBN 9780198152477
    .
  • Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and Their Historiography.
    ISBN 9780860789901
    .
  • Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics Between Desert and Empire.
    ISBN 9780199596645
    .
  • East and West in Late Antiquity: Invasion, Settlement, Ethnogenesis and Conflicts of Religion.
    ISBN 9789004289529
    .

Citations

  1. ^ "LISTSERV 16.5 - CLASSICISTS Archives".
  2. ^ Fischer-Radizi 2019, pp. 56–58.
  3. ^ Silke Kaiser 2021, pp. 173–188.
  4. ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XI.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Drinkwater 2007, pp. 1–3.
  6. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. IX–X.
  7. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XII–XIV.
  8. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, p. XIX.
  9. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XII–XIX.
  10. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XX–XXI.
  11. ^ a b Liebeschuetz 2015, p. XXI.
  12. ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, p. XXI, 106.
  13. ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XXV, 85–100. "Germanic tribes... did indeed possess both core traditions and a sense of shared identity, and... these had evolved well before their entry into the Roman world... Caesar and Tacitus certainly thought that the people they called Germans shared elements of a common culture. Tacitus certainly knew that they shared a language... [E]ven if the different gentes did not share a sense of German identity, they did share a language, or at least spoke closely related dialects... That is why the concept of ‘Germanic’ remains useful, even indispensable..."
  14. ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, p. XXIII.
  15. ^ Liebeschuetz 2015, pp. XXI, 99–100.

External links

Sources

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolf_Liebeschuetz&oldid=1200631039"