Edmund Groag (2 February 1873, in Prerau – 19 August 1945, in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

) was an Austrian classical scholar, who specialized in

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. From 1892 he studied history and

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

at the

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, receiving his doctorate in 1895 with the dissertation on

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Tacitus’ two major historical works, ''Annals'' ( ...

, ''Zur Kritik von Tacitus’ Quellen in den Historien''. By way of a study grant he visited Rome in 1898/99, then in 1901 began work at the Vienna National Library, an institution that he would be associated with for most of his career. In 1918 he obtained his

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at the university, where in 1925 he was named an associate professor of Roman history. In 1933 he became a member of the

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.Edmund Groag
Österreichische Akademie der WissenschaftenEdmund Groag
Gedenkbuch der Universität Wien He was born into a Jewish family and converted to Catholicism in 1901. Despite this, he was removed from his position at the university for racial reasons following the

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. During the Nazi takeover of Austria, he lived in a precarious state in Vienna. He died from an illness a few months after liberation of the city. With Arthur Stein (1871–1950), he published an unfinished second edition of the ''

Prosopographia Imperii Romani The ', abbreviated ''PIR'', is a collective historical work to establish the prosopography of high-profile people from the Roman Empire. The time period covered extends from the Battle of Actium in 31 BC to the reign of Diocletian. The final volum ...

'' (3 volumes, 1933–43).Edmund Groag
de.Wikisource He was also the author of many articles in the ''

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Selected works

* ''Die Adoption Hadrians'', 1899 – The adoption of

Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

. * ''Die römischen Inschriftsteine der Hofbibliothek'', 1913 – The Roman inscription stones of the court library. * ''Geschichte des Altertums bis zur Begründung des römischen Kaiserreiches'' (with Heinrich Montzka, 1914) – Ancient history up to the establishment of the Roman Empire. * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte des zweiten Triumvirats'', 1915 – Contributions to the history of the

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. * ''Studien zur römischen Kaisergeschichte'' (2 parts 1918–19) – Studies of Roman Emperor history. * ''Römische Cäsaren'', 1926 – Roman Caesars. * ''Neue Literatur über Caesar und Augustus'', 1926 – New literature on Caesar and

Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (), was the founder of the Roman Empire, who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in A ...

. * ''Der Dichter Porfyrius in einer stadtrömischen Inschrift'' 1926/27 – The poet Porfyrius from an urban Roman inscription. * ''Hannibal als Politiker'', 1929 –

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as a politician. * ''Prosopographische Bemerkungen'', 1931 –

Prosopographical Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. Research subjects are analysed by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line a ...

remarks. * ''Die römischen Reichsbeamten von Achaia bis auf Diokletian'', 1939 – Roman Empire officials of

Achaia Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaḯa'', ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...

up until

Diocletian Diocletian ( ; ; ; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia. As with other Illyri ...

. * ''Die Reichsbeamten von Achaia in spätrömischer Zeit'', 1946 – The Imperial officials of Achaia in the late Roman era.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Groag, Edmund 1873 births 1945 deaths People from Přerov University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna 20th-century Austrian historians Austrian people of Moravian-German descent Prosopographers of ancient Rome