Stephen Heinlein

* Bratislava, January 19, 1874 – † Budapest, February 23, 1945 / ancient historian, university professor, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1927) ; ; He began his studies in Bratislava, and in 1897 he obtained a teaching certificate in history and geography at the University of Budapest. From 1905 he was an assistant at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and from 1909 a librarian. From 1915 he was a public extraordinary professor of ancient universal history, and between 1918 and 1941 he was a public regular professor. In 1931–1932 he headed the Faculty of Humanities as dean. His university teaching was largely spent in the struggle to establish an institute in which he could ensure the renewal of the neglected study of ancient history. Finally, shortly before his retirement, the Institute of Ancient History was organized. At first, he dealt with the history of Sparta and Athens during the Persian Wars. In the 1930s and 1940s, his interest turned to Roman history. He retired in 1941. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member on May 5, 1927. As a member of the board of directors, he participated in the management of the Hungarian Historical Society. ; ; His main works: ; The Tyranny of the Peisistratids, 1897, ; Sketches for the History of the Cultural Policy of the Deinomenids, 1899, ; The Origin and Filling of the People's Tribune (In: A Memorial Book in Memory of Count Klebelsberg Kuno's Quarterly Cultural Policy Work in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Birth. Editor: Imre Lukinich), 1925, ; Notes on the dictatorship of Sulla from the perspective of the development of the Roman state, 1939.