Christoph Michels

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Christoph Michels (* 1977 in Daun ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Michels studied history, classical archeology and art history at the Ruhr University in Bochum from the 1997/1998 winter semester to the 2003 summer semester . From October 2003 to the end of 2004 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History and was appointed a lecturer in the 2004 summer semester and 2004/2005 winter semester . From 2004 to 2007 Michels did research as part of the International Graduate School Political Communication from Antiquity to the 20th Century . The doctorate (co-tutelle) at the Universities of Innsbruck and Frankfurt on the subject of "Philhellenism" of the kings of Bithynia, Pontus and Cappadocia. He completed the cultural transformation of three Hellenistic kingdoms and the politics of their rulers with the Rigorosum on January 10, 2008.

Michels worked on a WBT project by Meret Strothmann from the 2007/2008 winter semester to the 2008 summer semester . He then did research as a postdoc at the International College Dynamics of Religious History between Asia and Europe at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the sub-project Changes in the West Phoenician 'Pantheon' under the influence of cultural contacts with Greeks and Etruscans as well as the predominance of Carthage (in the 6th . – 4th century) by Linda-Marie Günther . In the 2008/2009 winter semester, he taught as a guest lecturer at the University of Innsbruck . From April 2009 to September 2017 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at RWTH Aachen University . In June 2016, he was awarded the right to teach Ancient History with the habilitation thesis Domination and Reign Reality at the time of Antoninus Pius . In the summer semester 2017 Michels took over the representation of the professorship for Ancient History at the University of Bayreuth . In the 2017/2018 winter semester, he went to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf as an academic adviser , where he will take the chair of Bruno Bleckmann in 2018/2019 . In 2019 he was accepted into the Heisenberg program .

From January 2014 to December 2017 Michels was a member of the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

His research focuses on the period of Hellenism and the Roman Empire . His focal points include cultural contacts in the ancient world, Greek historiography and the development of the representation of power in the Greco-Roman cultural area.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Pergamon Altar as a "state monument" of the Attalids. On the role of the historical context in the discussions about the dating and interpretation of the picture friezes (= history. Volume 1). Europäische Univ.-Verl., Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-86515-227-9 (also master's thesis, Bochum 2003).
  • Cultural transfer and monarchical “philhellenism”. Bithynia, Pontos and Cappadocia in Hellenistic times (= writings on political communication. Volume 4). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-536-1 (also dissertation, Innsbruck / Frankfurt 2008).
  • Antoninus Pius and the role models of the Roman princeps (= Klio supplements . Volume 30). De Gruyter, Berlin 2018.
  • as editor with Klaus Freitag : Athens and / or Alexandreia? Aspects of Identity and Ethnicity in Hellenistic Greece . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22255-0 .
  • as editor with Peter Franz Mittag : Beyond the Narrative. Antoninus Pius in the non-literary sources . Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 3-515-11650-8 .
  • as editor with Hans Beck, Benedikt Eckhardt and Sonja Richter: From Magna Graecia to Asia Minor. Festschrift for Linda-Marie Günther on her 65th birthday. Philippika 116. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10907-9
  • as editor with Rozbeh Asmani and Clarissa Blume-Jung: Memory. Studies on constructions, persistence and social change, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-70146-6

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personal data
SURNAME Michels, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Down