Conrad Cichorius (25 May 1863 in
Leipzig
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– 20 January 1932 in
Bonn
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) was a German
historian
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and classical
philologist
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. He is known for publishing a complete survey of the reliefs of
Trajan's Column
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, which still forms the basis of modern scholarship.
From 1882 to 1886 he studied at the universities of
Freiburg
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,
Leipzig
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and
Berlin
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, and in 1895 became an associate professor at Leipzig. Later on, he was a full professor of
ancient history
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at the universities of
Breslau (1900–16) and
Bonn
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(1916–28). In 1923/24 he served as
university rector.
Conrad Cichorius
Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
Selected works
* ''Rom und Mytilene'', Teubner, Leipzig 1888
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* ''Die Reliefs des Denkmals von Adamklissi'', Leipzig 1897
* ''Untersuchungen zu Lucilius'', Berlin 1908
* ''Römische Studien. Historisches, Epigraphisches, Literaturgeschichtliches aus vier Jahrhunderten Roms'', Leipzig/Berlin 1922
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20th-century German historians
Writers from Leipzig
Leipzig University faculty
University of Breslau faculty
University of Bonn faculty
1863 births
1932 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
19th-century German historians