Wolfgang Blösel

Wolfgang Blösel (born October 15, 1969 in Hadamar ) is a German ancient historian .

Wolfgang Blösel grew up in the Hadamar district of Niederzeuzheim . In 1989 he graduated from the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in his hometown. After studying history, classical philology , Egyptology and Assyriology in Heidelberg from 1990 to 1997 (interrupted by a scholarship abroad at Oxford University in 1993/94), Blösel received his doctorate there in the 1997 summer semester with a thesis on Themistocles under Herodotus supervised by Fritz Gschnitzer . Subsequently, in 1997/98 he was a research assistant at the TU Dresden and in the SFB 537 Historicity and Institutionality . In 1999 he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . From 1999 to 2006, Blösel was Egon Flaig's research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Greifswald , then until 2010 he worked on the DFG project “The Extraordinary Empires of the Roman Republic” at the University of Cologne , where in 2010 he studied demilitarization of the Roman nobility for ancient history. The habilitation thesis remained unpublished. In 2010/11 he represented the professorship for ancient history at the University of Düsseldorf and then an academic council. In October 2011 Blösel was appointed W2 professor for ancient history at the University of Kassel . In April 2012, he moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen to a W3 professorship for Ancient History.

Blösel's research focuses on oligarchies and democracies in Classical Greece as well as the Roman Republic , especially domestic politics and historiography.

Fonts

Monographs

• The Roman Republic. Forum and expansion. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67413-6 .
• Themistocles with Herodotus: Mirror of Athens in the fifth century. Studies on the history and historiographical construction of the Greek struggle for freedom 480 BC Chr. (= Historia single scripts. Vol. 183). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08533-5 .

Editorships

• with Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp : From the militia equestris to the militia urbana. Prominent roles and career fields in ancient Rome: Contributions to an international conference from May 16 to 18, 2008 at the University of Cologne. Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09686-7 .

Web links

• Page from Blösel at the University of Duisburg-Essen