Helga Scholten

Helga Scholten (born August 24, 1963 in Kalkar ) is a German ancient historian .

Helga Scholten studied history, political science and education at RWTH Aachen University in 1983/84 and after the first semester moved to Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where she studied history and sociology. She graduated with a Magister Artium and began doctoral studies, which she finished in February 1994. The subject of the dissertation was The Eunuch near the Kaiser. On the political and social significance of the Praepositus sacri cubiculi in the 4th and 5th centuries AD.From March 1991 to March 1995 Scholten was a research assistant in the creation of a numismatic database in Düsseldorf, and from 1993 to 1995 a lecturer. In September 1995 she moved to the University of Duisburg as a research assistant . There she completed her habilitation with a thesis on The Sophistics. A threat to the religion and politics of the polis? A historical analysis , the venia Legendi , was given to her in June 2001. Scholten became a university lecturer in Duisburg in September. From 2003 to 2006 she represented Theodora Hantos at the University of Siegen on their chair for ancient history in the time when this rector of the university was. She then moved back to Duisburg as a university lecturer and private lecturer , and also remained a lecturer in Siegen. Since 2009 she has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and in the 2009/10 winter semester she was the professor for Ancient History at the University of Mainz . Since October 2017 she has been an Extraordinary Professor and Academic Senior Councilor at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Scholten is primarily concerned with Greek history, the time of the Roman principle , late antiquity and the social history of antiquity . She also researches epigraphy and numismatics .

Fonts

• The eunuch near the emperor. On the political and social significance of the Praepositus sacri cubiculi in the 4th and 5th centuries AD Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-631-48693-6 (Prismata, Vol. 5).
• The sophistry. A threat to the religion and politics of the polis? . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003729-6 .
• as editor: The perception of crisis phenomena. Case studies from antiquity to modern times. Böhlau, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-14506-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Scholten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Scholten on the website of the University of Bochum