Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner
Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (born March 19, 1977 ) is a German ancient historian .
Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner graduated from the Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg in 1996 . He studied classical philology and history at the universities of Munich and Oxford . After completing his master's degree in ancient history at Oxford University, he received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation from 2000 to 2004 and during this time completed his doctorate in ancient history at the University of Marburg . In 2005 he received his doctorate there under Malcolm Errington on the legal texts of Valentinian I.
From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a management consultant for a medium-sized strategy and management consulting company. From 2006 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy at Heidelberg University . In 2010 he received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation for outstanding achievements in research into late antiquity . In 2011 he was elected a Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) for the 2012/13 college year. From 2012 to 2014 he taught as an assistant professor for ancient history at the University of Basel .
Schmidt-Hofner has been teaching as the successor to Frank Kolb as Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen since February 2014 . He has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2016 and of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (AEK) in Munich since 2017 .
His main research interests are the history of late antiquity, especially of the fourth century, questions of statehood and statehood in the Roman Empire , late Roman law and spatial planning in the cultures of archaic-classical Greece.
Fonts
Monographs
- Classical Greece. The war and freedom. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 3-406-67915-3 .
- React and create. The style of government of the late Roman emperor using the example of Valentinian I's legislation (= Vestigia. Volume 58). Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57268-5 (reviews at Sehepunkte and H-Soz-u-Kult ).
Editorships
- with Olivier Hekster , Christian Witschel : Ritual dynamics and religious change in the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5 - 7, 2007) (= Impact of Empire. Volume 9). Brill, Leiden et al. 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17481-8 .
- with Peter Eich , Christian Wieland: The recurring Leviathan. Statehood and becoming a state in late antiquity and early modern times (= Academy Conferences, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Volume 4). Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 3-8253-5667-1 .
- with Peter Eich, Claus Ambos: spatial order. Space and socio-political orders in antiquity (= Academy Conferences, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Volume 18). Winter, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8253-6429-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page from Schmidt-Hofner at the University of Tübingen
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Remarks
Felix Staehelin (1931–1944) | Bernhard Wyss (1945–1952) | Andreas Alföldi (1952–1956) | Denis van Berchem (1956–1963) | Christian Meier (1966–1968; 1973–1976) | Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg (1978–2006) | Aloys Winterling (2007–2009) | Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (2012–2014) | Sabine Hübner (since 2014)
1st chair: Alfred von Gutschmid (1877–1887) | Ernst Kornemann (1902–1918) | Wilhelm Weber (1918–1925) | Joseph Vogt (1926–1929) | Richard Laqueur (1930-1932) | Woldemar Graf Uxkull-Gyllenband (1932–1939) | Joseph Vogt (1940–1944, 1946–1962) | Hermann Bengtson (1963–1966) | Wilhelm Hoffmann (1968–1969) | Karl-Ernst Petzold (1970–1985) | Frank Kolb (1986-2013) | Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (since 2014)
2nd chair: Karl Friedrich Stroheker (1963–1979) | Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum (1979-2004) | Mischa Meier (since 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt-Hofner, Sebastian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1977 |