Adolf Wilhelm, one of the most eminent scholars of Greek epigraphs of
his generation, passed away nearly 60 years ago. In addition to several
monographs, his enormous creative output consisted above all in hundreds
of shorter articles, distinguished through their exceptional precision.
Adolf Wilhelm's studies, readings, and commentaries are still of
relevance today, both for epigraphical studies as well as for Classical
Studies in general. It is clear that an overview of them all is almost
impossible, especially since many of publications where they appeared
are now available only with difficulty. This reprint of the Kleine
Schriften has thus long been a special desideratum. The former
Zentralantiquariat der DDR in Leipzig began work on such a reprint
between 1974 and 1984, publishing a total of five volumes, but the work
was discontinued during the political changes of the next years without
there being a legal successor. The Commission of Asia Minor of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences then reprinted the remaining 174 articles
of Part II/3-5, which with approximately 1,900 pages fill three volumes.
This was followed by Part III, an edition of Wilhelm's posthumous works.
After the international scholarly community's positive reception of
these four volumes, the series has now been completed with the
publication of this volume, Part IV, a comprehensive index of all the
Leipzig and Vienna reprints of Wilhelm's works (including his "Beitrage
zur griechischen Inschriftenkunde" written in 1909).
