Armin Eich

Armin Eich (born June 4, 1965 in Olpe ) is a German ancient historian .

Eich received his doctorate in 1997 at the University of Passau with Hartmut Wolff with a dissertation on political literature in Roman society and completed his habilitation there in 2003; The topic of the habilitation thesis published in 2004 was The Political Economy of Ancient Greece . He then continued to work as a private lecturer and senior assistant at the University of Passau. In 2007/2008 he was a substitute professor at Bielefeld University . He also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Regensburg . In 2010, Eich was appointed W3 professor at the University of Wuppertal .

Eich deals with topics from both Greek and Roman history. There he conducts research in particular on the administration of the Roman army and the history of the Roman army.

Eich's younger brother Peter Eich is also an ancient historian.

Fonts

• Political Literature in Roman Society. Studies on the relationship between the political and literary public in the late republic and early imperial times . Böhlau, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-412-14999-3 (Passau historical research, volume 11. Also dissertation Passau 1998).
• The political economy of ancient Greece (6th – 3rd centuries BC) . Böhlau, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-412-25705-2 (Passau historical research, volume 14. Also habilitation thesis Passau 2003).
• Armin Eich (ed.): The administration of the imperial Roman army. Studies for Hartmut Wolff . Steiner, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09420-7 (Historia, individual writings, issue 211).
• The Sons of Mars: A History of War from the Stone Age to the End of Antiquity. CH Beck: Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68229-2 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2009 . tape 1 . Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , pp. 822 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Eich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Armin Eich at perlentaucher.de
• Scientist profile of Armin Eich at the University of Wuppertal

Remarks

1. ↑ Ancient history in Germany .
2. ^ The private lecturers in history ( Memento from August 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).