Michael Zahrnt

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Michael Zahrnt (born June 29, 1940 in Vienna ) is a German ancient historian .

The eldest son of the theologian Heinz Zahrnt worked after studying classical philology at the Universities of Kiel and Munich as a research assistant at the University of Kiel. There he was in 1969 with Horst Braunert with an ancient historical dissertation entitled Olynth and the Chalkidians. Studies on the formation of states on the Chalkidik peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries BC . Chr doctorate. He then worked as Braunert's assistant in Kiel and completed his habilitation in 1980 - also in ancient history - with an epigraphic study of the city policy of Emperor Hadrian , which remained unpublished. From 1982 until his retirement in 2005 he was C3 professor for ancient history at the University of Cologne ; Zahrnt now lives in Kiel again. Zahrnt published many of his numerous articles in the important ancient historical journal Chiron . He contributed a contribution about Antinoupolis to the large project Rise and Fall of the Roman World . He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

  • Olynthus and the Chalcidians. Studies on the formation of states on the Chalkidik peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. CH Beck, Munich 1971 ( Vestigia , Vol. 14) ISBN 3-406-03097-1
  • Ktistes - Conditor - Restitutor. Investigations into the urban policy of the emperor Hadrian . Habilitation thesis, Kiel 1979.
  • with Kurt Telschow (ed.): Horst Braunert : Politics, Law and Society in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Collected essays and speeches . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980 (Kiel Historical Studies, Vol. 26) ISBN 3-12-911710-5
  • The Romans in the land of Alexander the Great. History of the provinces of Macedonia and Epirus . von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4188-2 . ( Review )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Zahrnt: The Romans in the land of Alexander the great. History of the provinces of Macedonia and Epirus . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8053-4188-2 , p. 127.
personal data
SURNAME Zahrnt, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna