Angela Pabst

Angela Pabst (born October 14, 1957 in Ansbach ) is a German ancient historian .

Angela Pabst studied Ancient History, Latin Philology and Classical Archeology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . There he completed his master’s degree in 1982, followed by a doctorate in 1985 with a dissertation on the subject of Divisio regni. The collapse of the Roman Empire as seen by contemporaries and the habilitation in 1991, supervised by Andreas Mehl and Robert Werner . She has been a private lecturer in Erlangen since 1992, and has been an adjunct professor there since 2000. In 2005 Pabst took on a position as a research assistant at the University of Halle-Wittenberg .

Pabst has translated the speeches of Symmachus and deals with political systems and social structures of antiquity, the history of mentality and historical anthropology, archaic and classical Greece and Rome from the beginning to late antiquity. She pays particular attention to the foundations of Greek democracy.

Since the summer semester of 1994, Pabst has headed the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Demokratie , an interdisciplinary study group (also after moving to the University of Halle) . The members of the working group (the “Erlanger Democrats”), mostly active and former students and doctoral candidates from various disciplines, discuss political issues against the background of ancient democracy . More than 100 guest lectures by scientists supplemented the weekly meetings of the working group during the semester.

Fonts

• Divisio regni. The collapse of the Imperium Romanum as seen by contemporaries. Dissertation . Habelt, Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-7749-2244-6 .
• Comitia imperii. Ideal foundations of the Roman Empire. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-12283-6 .
• Athenian democracy. (= CH Beck knowledge ). CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48008-X .
• Emperor Augustus. Redesign of Rome. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-010988-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Angela Pabst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Democracy Group