Bruno Bleckmann

Bruno Bleckmann (born January 15, 1962 in Heidelberg ) is a German ancient historian .

Bruno Bleckmann studied history, Latin and Romance studies in Würzburg , Münster and Cologne from 1983 to 1989 . In 1992 he received his doctorate in ancient history in Cologne with a topic on the imperial crisis of the 3rd century , and in 1996 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Athens' path to defeat. The last years of the Peloponnesian War (411 BC – 404 BC) in Göttingen , where he was employed from 1994 to 1998. He then held professorships at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Bern , before taking over the professorship for Ancient History at the University of Düsseldorf in the 2003/04 winter semester . In 2007 he turned down a call to the University of Göttingen for the Christian Gottlob Heyne Professorship for Ancient History, which had been created as part of the Excellence Initiative.

From March 1, 2011 to February 28, 2015, Bleckmann was dean of the philosophy faculty at his university. In this role, he became known to a wider public than he who withdrawing on February 5, 2013 doctoral degree for the Education Minister Annette Schavan announced.

Bleckmann mainly deals with ancient historiography ( Classical Greece , the Roman Republic and late antiquity ) and the related source criticism . He is also an expert on the imperial crisis of the 3rd century , the age of Emperor Constantine and the Great Migration . In addition, from 1998 to 2010 he was co-editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies , in which he also published several articles. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute .

Together with Markus Stein, Bleckmann is the editor of the series Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity .

Fonts (selection)

• The imperial crisis of the III. Century in late antique and Byzantine historiography. Investigations on the post-Dionic sources of the chronicle of Johannes Zonaras ( plus dissertation), Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88073-441-0 .
• Constantine the Great . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996 (meanwhile 3rd edition 2007), ISBN 978-3-499-50556-0 (rowohlt's monographs).
• Athens' path to defeat. The last years of the Peloponnesian War . Stuttgart u. a. 1998; ISBN 3-519-07648-9 . ( Review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review )
• The Roman nobility in the First Punic War. Investigations into aristocratic competition in the republic . Berlin 2002; ISBN 3-05-003738-5 .
• Fiction as story. New studies on the author of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and on the historiography of the fourth century BC . Göttingen 2006; ISBN 3-525-82549-8 . ( Review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review )
• The Peloponnesian War . Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-55388-5
  • Italian translation: La guerra del Peloponneso . Bologna 2010, ISBN 978-88-15-13679-4
• The Germans. From Ariovistus to the Vikings . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58476-3 . ( Review )
• with Doris Meyer, Jean-Marc Prieur: Philostorge. Histoire Ecclésiastique. Introduction, revision de la traduction, notes et index ( Sources Chrétiennes 564). Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-204-10189-9
• with Markus Stein: Philostorgios, Church History ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity E 7). 2 volumes, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78199-4
• with Maria Becker, Mehran A. Nickbakht, Jonathan Groß: Consularia Constantinopolitana and related sources ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity G 1–4). Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78210-6
• with Jonathan Groß: Historians of the Imperial Crisis of the 3rd Century I ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity A 1–4 and 6–8). Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78490-2
• with Jan-Markus Kötter, Mehran A. Nickbakht and In-yong Song: Origo gentis Romanorum - Polemius Silvius - Narratio de imperatoribus ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity B 5–7). Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78791-0 .
• with Jonathan Groß: Eutropius, Breviarium ab urbe condita ( Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity B 3). Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78916-7 .

Editing

• Herodotus and the era of the Persian Wars. Realities and fictions. Colloquium on the 80th birthday of Dietmar Kienast . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-08406-6
• with Boris Dreyer : Gustav Adolf Lehmann : Research on ancient history. Small fonts . 2 volumes, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09887-8
• with Timo Stickler: Greek profane historians of the fifth century AD . Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10641-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Bleckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Bleckmann at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

Remarks

1. ^ Proceedings against Minister of Education: University of Düsseldorf recognizes Schavan from the doctorate
2. ^ List of publications by Ferdinand Schöningh