Johannes Kromayer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German historian
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Place of Birth: Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Johannes Kromayer
- Johannes Kromayer (31 July 1859 in Stralsund – 23 September 1934 in Berlin) was a German classical historian.
- He was an older brother of dermatologist Ernst Kromayer (1862–1933). He studied classical philology and ancient history at the universities of Jena and Strasbourg, then afterwards worked as a schoolteacher in Thann (1884–88), Metz (1888–93) and Strasbourg (1893–1900).
- In 1898 he obtained his habilitation for ancient history, and in 1902 became an associate professor at the University of Czernowitz (full professor 1903).
- From 1913 to 1927 he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Leipzig.In 1900 he took part in an expedition to Greece in order to study ancient battlefield sites.
- In 1907/08 he studied ancient battlefields in Italy and North Africa.
- As a result of his research, he published the four-volume Antike Schlachtfelder ("Ancient Battlefields", 1903–1931).
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