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It is now 50 years since the death of Adolf Wilhelm, one of the
greatest Greek epigraphers of his generation. Although he authored
only a few monographs, his huge creative power was reflected
overwhelmingly in hundreds of generally smaller articles that are
remarkable for their extraordinary and precise density of
explanation. Of course, the wealth of material is hardly
manageable, and in addition was in part published in sources that
are difficult to access. The reprint of these "Kleine Schriften" by
Adolf Wilhelm thus constitutes a desideratum of the first order for
the present age.
One of the greatest epigraphists of this century was Adolf Wilhelm,
who died on August 10, 1950. His highly reputed creative power was
not reflected in extensive corpus works or large books but rather
in hundreds of rather smaller articles, indeed in part very short
individual contributions distributed over a wide range of
publication locations. Adolf Wilhelm's investigations, readings and
commentaries are testimony to a highly significant academic
capacity, the like of which has rarely seen since. But precisely
this manner of short publication in at times extremely remote
places represents a major handicap to any epigraphic, ancient
history and antiquity research. In this way, a large amount of
material is thoroughly insufficiently known to the intentional
academic community.The reprint of these "Short Writings" by Adolf
Wilhelm thus represents a major need for the present. Since as
early as 1953, for instance, Hermann Bengtson, one of the leading
German ancient historians, has been saying (most recently in
"Einfuhrung in die Alte Geschichte", Munich, Beck 1969, p. 161):
"It would be very welcome from the point of view of research if a
publisher could now be found for the scattered works of Ulrich
Wilckens, Adolf Wilhelm, Anton von Premerstein and others."\n\nThe
former Zentralantiquariat der DDR in Leipzig published five
part-volumes in the years 1974 to 1985, but was dissolved without
successor following the political changes. These part volumes
are:\nSection I: Academic Writings on Greek Epigraphy, parts
1-3\nSection II: Essays and Contributions on Greek Epigraphy, parts
1-2 \nThere still remain roughly 174 articles, whose total of
approximately 2000 pages will probably take up 3 volumes. Section
II is now continued in the present volume. It should be noted that
the published material (epigraphs) and interpretations are neither
outdated nor will they ever become outdated.\n\nWith this project,
there is an agreement with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences (Dr. Klaus Hallof of the Inscriptiones Graecae); Dr.
Hallof's wife, Dr. Luise Hallof, is currently working on the
indexes for all the previous and planned volumes.
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