''Klio: Beiträge zur alten Geschichte'' is a biannual

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covering

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, focussing on the history of

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and

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from the archaic period to

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, as well as relationships with the

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. Areas covered also include

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and

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. The journal is published by

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and articles are in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

History

The journal was established in 1901 as ''Beiträge zur alten Geschichte'' (English: ''Contributions to Ancient History''). Since the 6th issue, it has been named ''Klio'', after

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, the

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. The first

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was Carl F. Lehmann; in 1903 he was joined by Ernst Kornemann. The journal was published by Leipziger Dieterich-Verlag until 1944. After a first continuously numbered series of the journal from 1901 to 1923, a "New Series" was begun in 1925, which restarted at number one and came to an end with number 18 in 1944. In 1959, the first volume of a renewed series was published by

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(

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) as number 37 (as if the two previous series had been continuously numbered), although the journal '' Historia'' had been founded in 1950 in West Germany as a replacement. A third "major" journal, ''

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'' appeared from 1971. However, the importance of the pre-war series ensured that the full set was reprinted at the beginning of the 1960s, although not in the same format or at the same quality as the original publication. Until 1992, ''Klio'' was edited by the government-controlled Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie. However, it also published works of Western historians and sometimes included

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contributions. Important articles appeared in ''Klio'' even after 1959, but the publications of

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scholars at this time were not always up to date or at the level of international research, as a result of the shortage of money and the enforcement of the state's ideological views. In 1993 the journal received a new

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. The current editors are Manfred Clauss (Frankfurt am Main), Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Freiburg/Berlin), Peter Funke (Münster) and

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(Mannheim). From 1903 until 1944 and again since 1999 (in a ''Neuen Folge'' - new series) the journal has published ''Klio-Beihefte'' (''Klio Supplements''), consisting of

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s, mostly published doctoral theses.

Editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief: * Carl F. Lehmann-Haupt (co-founder and first editor) * Ernst Kornemann (1903-1927) * Gert Audring (1988-1991) * Hans-Joachim Gehrke (since 1993) * Manfred Clauss (since 1993) * Peter Funke (since 2011) * Christian Mann (since 2018)

Abstracting and indexing

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References

External links

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