Christian Witschel

Christian Witschel (born December 17, 1966 in Würzburg ) is a German ancient historian .

Christian Witschel studied ancient history, new history, prehistory and early history as well as classical archeology at the universities of Berlin and Oxford from 1986 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1999 Witschel worked as a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at Heidelberg University. In 1998 he received his doctorate under Manfred Clauss with the thesis The West of the Roman Empire in the 3rd Century AD at the University of Frankfurt . Witschel then worked as a research assistant in Munich from 1999 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2005 Witschel was a research assistant in Munich. In 2004 he completed his habilitation there on the subject of propaganda for the Princeps? Mechanisms of Imperial Representation in the Imperium Romanum . Witschel has been Full Professor of Ancient History at Heidelberg University since 2005. His research interests include the history of the 3rd century AD, Roman social and economic history, and Latin epigraphy . In 1999 he was awarded the Prize for the Promotion of the Humanities (Friedrich Sperl Prize).

Fonts

Monographs

with Folke Damminger, Uwe Gross and Roland Prien: Big Worlds - Small Worlds. Ladenburg and the Lobdengau between antiquity and the Middle Ages (= Ladenburg series on city history. Vol. 2). Edition Ralf Fetzer, Edingen-Neckarhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-940968-32-6 .
Crisis - Recession - Stagnation? The west of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century AD (= Frankfurt ancient historical contributions. Vol. 4). Clauss, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-934040-01-2 (At the same time: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1998).
Propaganda for the Princeps? Mechanisms of Imperial Representation in the Imperium Romanum. Unprinted habilitation thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich 2004 ( digitized version ).

Editorships

with Ralf Behrwald : Rome in late antiquity. Historical memory in urban areas (= Heidelberg ancient historical contributions and epigraphic studies . Vol. 51). Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-09445-0 .

with Ralf Krumeich : The Acropolis of Athens in Hellenism and in the Roman Empire. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-89500-713-2 .

with Jens-Uwe Krause : The city in late antiquity - decline or change? Files from the International Colloquium in Munich on May 30 and 31, 2003 (= Historia. Individual writings . Vol. 190). Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08810-5 .

with Franz Alto Bauer : Statues in late antiquity (= late antiquity, early Christianity, Byzantium. Series B: Studies and Perspectives. Vol. 23). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89500-576-3 .

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Remarks

↑ Prize for the promotion of the humanities (Friedrich Sperl Prize)

personal data
SURNAME	Witschel, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH	17th December 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wurzburg

[1] Prize for the promotion of the humanities (Friedrich Sperl Prize)