Fritz Heichelheim

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Fritz Moritz Heichelheim (May 6, 1901, Gießen - April 22, 1968, Toronto) was a German-born ancient historian, who specialized in ancient economic history, at the University of Gießen and as Professor of Greek and Roman History at the University of Toronto.

Heichelheim was a pupil of the ancient historian Richard Laqueur at Gießen where he took his habilitation. After lecturing there for nearly four years, he, like his colleague at Gießen, Margarete Bieber, was dismissed in 1933 in accordance with the National Socialists’ “cleansing” of the universities (see Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service).

Like many German scholars, he was forced to emigrate abroad, in his case to Canada.

[edit] Literary works

• Dieauswärtige Bevölkerung im Ptolemäerreich, 1925
• An Ancient economic history, 2 vols., Leiden, 1968
• A History of the Roman People Prentice-Hall, 2003.

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