Christian Wendt (historian)

Christian Wendt (* 1976 in Berlin ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Wendt studied history, law and journalism and received his doctorate in 2006 from the Free University of Berlin under Ernst Baltrusch with a thesis on Roman foreign policy. Since 2009 he has headed the research project The (powerlessness) of the fittest. Thucydides and the interpolitical order at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute . From 2013 to 2018 he was junior professor for ancient history at the Free University of Berlin . Since the summer semester of 2018 he has been teaching as a W2 professor for ancient history at the Ruhr University Bochum . His research focuses on ancient international law, foreign policy, constitutional issues, and historiography.

Fonts (selection)

• Sine fine. The development of Roman foreign policy from the late republic to the early principate (= studies on ancient history . Volume 9). Verlag Antike, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938032-24-4 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2006).
• as editor with Ernst Baltrusch: A possession forever? History, polis and international law in Thucydides (= understanding of the state . Volume 41). Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 3-8329-5394-9 .
• as editor with Ernst Baltrusch, Morten Hegewisch, Michael Meyer and Uwe Puschner : 2000 Years of the Varus Battle. History - Archeology - Legends (= Topoi . Volume 7). De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028250-4 .
• as editor with Christian R. Thauer: Thucydides and political order. Concepts of order and the history of the Peloponnesian War . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-52762-2 .
• as editor with Christian R. Thauer: Thucydides and political order. Lessons of governance and the history of the Peloponnesian War . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-137-52774-5 .
• as editor with Monika Schuol and Julia Wilker : Exempla imitanda. Coping with the present with the past? Festschrift for Ernst Baltrusch on his 60th birthday . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol 2016, ISBN 3-525-25323-0 .
• as editor with Ernst Baltrusch: Der Erste. Augustus and the beginning of a new era (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology. Special volumes of the ancient world ). Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-5033-4 .
• as editor with Ernst Baltrusch and Hans Kopp: Seemacht, Seeherrschaft und die Antike (= Historia individual writings . Volume 244). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11431-8 .
• as editor with Hans Kopp: Thalassokratographie. Reception and transformation of ancient maritime domination (= Transformations of Antiquity . Volume 52). De Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 3-11-056889-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Christian Wendt