- Edmund Buchner
Edmund Buchner (b.
October 22 ,1923 ,Ittling nearStraubing ) is a German ancient historian and former President of theGerman Archaeological Institute (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, or DAI).He graduated in 1953 in
Erlangen , with a thesis on the Panegyrikos ofIsocrates and then became assistant to the newly appointed to ErlangenHelmut Berve . As Berve was Director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, or AEK) in Munich from 1960, Buchner followed him as a research assistant From 1969 until 1979, Buchner was a professor and director of the AEK, which belonged to what is now the DAI, and from 1980 to 1988 the DAI's president.Buchner is known primarily for his research on the
solarium Augusti , thesundial erected by the Roman emperorAugustus on theField of Mars inRome .Works
*"Der Panegyrikos des Isokrates. Eine historisch-philologische Untersuchung". Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958.
*"Die Sonnenuhr des Augustus". Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0430-7.
*"Neues zur Sonnenuhr des Augustus". In: "Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie ", Heft 10 (1993/94), S. 77–84.
*"Ein Kanal für Obelisken. Neues vom Mausoleum des Augustus in Rom". In: "Antike Welt" 27 (1996), H. 3, S. 161–168.
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