Burkhard Meissner

Burkhard Meißner (born August 23, 1959 in Flensburg ) is a German ancient historian . He has been Professor of Ancient History at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 2004 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978, Burkhard Meißner did his military service and then studied history, philosophy, Slavic , Greek and classical archeology at the Universities of Kiel , Tübingen , Oxford and Heidelberg , including many semesters as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He passed his master’s examination in Tübingen in 1984; his dissertation, with which he received his doctorate in 1989, appeared in the series Hypomnemata in 1992 under the title Historians Between Polis and Royal Court: Studies on the Position of Historians in Greek Society in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Period .

Meißner then worked for a year as a research assistant at the Institute for Ancient History at the University of Darmstadt and from 1990 to 1991 as a research assistant in Erlangen . As a part-time job, he worked on programming projects and gave cello lessons. From 1992 to 1993 he had a stay abroad as a visiting professor at the La Sapienza University in Rome. He spent the years from 1993 to 1997 as a research assistant in Halle . Here he completed his habilitation in 1996 with Andreas Mehl with the font Tradition und Technik. Studies on the application, preservation and expansion of technical knowledge in antiquity , for which he was awarded the Christian Wolff Prize by the university in 1997.

From 1997 to 2003 Meißner worked as a senior assistant in Halle and also headed the papyrus collection and the coin collection. At the Universities of Bielefeld and Leipzig he accepted professorship and teaching positions. From 2003 to 2004 he was a research assistant in Halle; In 2004 he was appointed adjunct professor. In the same year he accepted a professorship for Ancient History at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, where he has been teaching and researching ever since. In 2004 and 2006 he was Gerda Henkel Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Fonts (selection)

• Historian between the Polis and the Royal Court. Studies on the position of historians in Greek society in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods (= Hypomnemata. Studies on antiquity and its afterlife . Volume 99). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-525-25199-8 (also dissertation, Heidelberg 1989).
• The technological literature of antiquity. Structure, tradition and effect of technical knowledge in antiquity (approx. 400 BC - approx. 500 AD) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003194-8 (also habilitation thesis, Halle 1996).
• as editor with Oliver Schmitt and Michael Sommer : War - Society - Institutions. Contributions to a comparative war history . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004097-1 .
• Hellenism (= compact history ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-15494-4 .
  • Hellenism (= compact history ). 2nd reviewed and bibliographically updated edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26023-2 .
• as editor with Thomas Brüggemann, Christian Mileta , Angela Pabst and Oliver Schmitt: Studia hellenistica et historiographica. Festschrift for Andreas Mehl . Computus, Gutenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940598-09-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Burkhard Meißner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Burkhard Meißner at the Helmut Schmidt University