Christof Schuler (ancient historian)

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Christof Schuler (* 1965 in Ravensburg ) is a German ancient historian and epigraphist .

Schuler studied classical philology and history in Tübingen and Oxford from 1985 to 1992 . In Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1996 with a thesis supervised by Frank Kolb on rural settlements and communities in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor . Until 2002 he was Kolb's research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History in Tübingen, then research assistant on a research project led by Christian Marek in Zurich, where he completed his habilitation in 2003/4 on The Administration of the City of Rome in the Imperial Era. In 2004 Schuler succeeded Michael Wörrle as the first director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphyof the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Munich. He is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Ancient History of the Historical Seminar of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and, since 2016, the first speaker of the Munich Center for Ancient Worlds .

Schuler is primarily concerned with the epigraphy and settlement archeology of ancient Asia Minor , where he also takes part in field research. In one of his current research projects, he intends to comprehensively deal with sympolities and synoicisms in the Hellenistic period, as part of the DFG-funded project group The Hellenistic Polis as a Way of Life .

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  • Rural settlements and communities in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor . Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42924-6 .
  • Further writings and publications can be found here

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