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Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902,
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– 26 December 1979,
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) was a German-born French historian.


Life

Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position in his father's company. He was promoted in 1925 in Breslau. When the company fell victim to the global economic crisis in 1929, Pflaum turned to a career as an academic studying Ancient History and Classical Philology in Berlin, where he studied under
Ulrich Wilcken Ulrich Wilcken (December 18, 1862 – December 10, 1944) was a German historian and papyrologist who was a native of Stettin. Biography Wilcken studied ancient history and Oriental studies in Leipzig, Tübingen and Berlin. He was a disciple of h ...
, , Eugen Täubler and
Ernst Stein Ernst Edward Aurel Stein (19 September 1891, in Jaworzno – 25 February 1945, in Fribourg) was an Austrian-Jewish Byzantinist and a historian of Late Antiquity. Ernst was the son of Ernst Eduard Stein and Henrietta Rosalie (née Hein) and the ...
. After the
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took control of the country, he left Germany in 1933 and continued his studies in Paris with
Jérôme Carcopino Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française, in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, son of a ...
at the
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. He also studied under the epigraphist Louis Robert. In 1937, Pflaum wrote a dissertation on the
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during the Roman Empire and was to become a member of the
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(CNRS). After the French defeat in 1940, he had to give up his position at the CNRS; his thesis could only appear anonymously. In 1942, before the persecution, he fled to the South of France, where he could continue his research on the Roman procurators, which he submitted as a thesis after the end of the war in 1947. He worked again at the CNRS in Paris and was there in 1956 as Directeur de recherche. Since the 1960s, he also taught at the
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, where he repeatedly took guest professorships in various European countries as well as at
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. In 1966 he was elected as a corresponding member of the
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. From 1966 to 1978, Pflaum was co-editor of ''
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''.


Bibliography


Books

* ''Essai sur le
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sous le Haut-Empire Romain'', Paris, 1940. * ''Le marbre de Thorigny'', Paris, 1948 * ''Les procurateurs équestres sous le Haut-empire romain'', Paris, 1950 * ''Inscriptions Latines d'Algérie, t. I, vol. I : Inscriptions de la confédération cirtéenne, de Cuicul et de la tribu des Suburbures'' recueillies par Stéphane Gsell, préparées par E.Albertini et J. Zeiller, publiées par H.-G. Pflaum, Paris, 1957. * ''Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le haut-empire romain'', Paris, 1960 * ''Les sodales antoniniani de l'époque de Marc Aurèle'', Paris, 1966 * en collaboration avec P.Bastien, ''La Trouvaille de Canakkale (Turquie). Deniers et antoniniani émis de 261 à 284'', Wetteren, 1969 * ''Abrégé des procurateurs équestres'', Paris, 1974 (French translation of his article ''Procurator'' in '' Real-Enzyklopädie'', vol. 23, 1 (1957), col. 1240–1279. * ''Inscriptions Latines d'Algérie, t. II, vol. 2 : Inscriptions de la confédération cirtéenne, de Cuicul et de la tribu des Suburbures''. Recueillies par Stéphane Gsell et publiées par H.G. Pflaum, Paris, 1976 * ''Les fastes de la province de Narbonnaise'', Paris, 1978 * ''L'Afrique romaine (Scripta Varia I)'', Paris, 1978 * ''La Gaule et l'empire romain (Scripta Varia II)'', Paris, 1981 * ''Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le haut-empire romain (Supplément)'', Paris, 1982 * ''Inscriptions Latines d'Algérie, t. II, vol 3 : Inscriptions de la confédération cirtéenne, de Cuicul et de la Tribu des Suburbures'', recueillies et éditées par Hans Georg Pflaum et publiées par les soins de Xavier Dupuis, Paris, 2003


Articles by H.-G. Pflaum not included in his ''Scripta Varia''

* « Du nouveau sur les guerres du Danube à l’époque de Marc Aurèle, d’après une inscription récemment découverte à Diana veteranorum en Numidie », '' CRAI'' 1956, p. 18-2
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* « Les gendres de Marc Aurèle »,''
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'', 1961, p. 28-4
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* « Les Sodales Antoniniani », ''CRAI'', 1961, 105–20, p. 118-121 (présentation de l'enquête développé dans l'ouvrage homonyme de 1966) * en collaboration avec P. Bastien, « La trouvaille de monnaies romaines de Thibouville (Eure) », ''Gallia'', XIX, 1961, p. 71-104
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and ''Gallia'', XX, 1962, p. 255-315
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. * ''Das römische Kaiserreich'', dans ''Propyläen-Weltgeschichte'', Bd. 4, Berlin, 1963, p. 317–428. * « Les correspondants de l’orateur M. Cornelius Fronto de Cirta », ''Hommages à Jean Bayet'', (col. Latomus n° 70), Brussels, 1964, p. 544-560. * « Le règlement successoral d’Hadrien », ''Historia Augusta Colloquium Bonn 1963'', Bonn, 1964, p. 95-122. * en collaboration avec Claude Brenot, « Les émissions orientales de la fin du IIIe s. après J.-C. à la lumière de deux trésors découverts en Syrie », ', 1965, 6–7, p. 134-20
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* « Les prêtres du culte impérial sous le règne d’Antonin le Pieux », ''CRAI'', 1967, p. 194-20
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* « La mise en place des procuratelles financières dans les provinces du Haut-Empire romain », ''RHD'', 46, 1968, p. 367-388. * ''Le plaisir du collectionneur : les monnaies rares ou inédites'', ''Collectionneurs et collections numismatiques. Monnaie de Paris - Exposition-concours'', Paris, 1968, p. 103-109. * « Forces et faiblesses de l’armée romaine du Haut-Empire », dans J.-P. Brisson dir., ''Problèmes de la guerre à Rome'', Paris, 1969, p. 85-98. * « La valeur de la source inspiratrice de la ''vita Hadriani'' et de la ''vita Marci Antonini'' à la lumière des personnalités contemporaines nommément citées », ''Historia Augusta colloquium 1968-69 Bonn'', Bonn, 1970, p. 173-232. * « In memoriam : Henri Rolland », ''Revue numismatique'', 1970, 6–12, .162-163. * « La valeur de l'information historique de la ''Vita Commodi'' à la lumière des personnages nommément cités par le biographe », ''Historia Augusta colloquium 1970 Bonn'', (Antiquitas 4 : Beiträge zur Historia Augusta Forschung, Bd 10), Bonn, 1972, p. 199-247. * « Les salaires des magistrats et fonctionnaires du Haut-Empire » dans ''Les Dévaluations à Rome. Époque républiaine et impériale. Actes du colloque de Rome (13-15 novembre 1975)'', Rome, 1978, p. 311-31
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* « Trésor d'antoniniani de la seconde moitié du IIIe trouvé en Syrie », ''Mélange de numismatique, d'archéologie et d'histoire offerts à Jean Lafaurie'', Paris, 1980, p. 145-152.


Studies about Hans-Georg Pflaum

* M. Clauss, B. Holtheide avec la collaboration de X. Loriot, « Bibliographie von Hans-Georg Pflaum »,'' Arheoloski Vestnik'', 28, 1977, p. 235-244 (180 titres de 1940 à 1975). *
Marcel Le Glay Marcel Le Glay (7 May 1920, Arleux near Douai ( Nord) – 14 August 1992.) was a 20th-century French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Rome. His work focused in particular on Roman religion and North Africa during Antiquity, espe ...
, "Hans-Georg Pflaum", ''Epigraphica'', 42, 1980, p. 212-230. * Azédine Beschaouch, Marcel Le Glay, « H.-G. Pflaum (1902-1979)», ''MEFRA'', 92–2, 1980, p. 563-56
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* . * Tadeusz Zawadzki: ''Un vrai Européen: Hans-Georg Pflaum (1902–1979)'', dans Wlodzimierz Appel: ''Magistri et discipuli. Kapitel zur Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften im 20. Jahrhundert.'' Torun, 2002, pp. 101–113, . * ''Gedächtnisschrift für Hans-Georg Pflaum'' (coll. « Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik »), Bonn, Habelt, 1981 (volume de Mélanges en l'honneur de H.-G. Pflaum).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pflaum, Hans Writers from Berlin 1902 births 1979 deaths École pratique des hautes études faculty French epigraphers French scholars of Roman history 20th-century French historians French numismatists Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy