Christoph Schäfer (historian)

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Christoph Schäfer (born September 3, 1961 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German ancient historian and has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Trier since 2008 .

Christoph Schäfer graduated from the Leibniz School in Offenbach in 1981 . From 1983 to 1988 he studied both the subjects Middle and Modern and Ancient History and Book Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Université Bourgogne de Dijon . In 1988 he completed his studies with a Magister Artium in Mainz. In the winter semester of 1990 he received his doctorate in Mainz with a thesis supervised by Heinz Bellen on the Western Roman Senate as the bearer of ancient continuity under the Ostrogothic kings (490-540 AD). Between 1991 and 1995 he worked in the book industry in Mainz and at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Hamburg . From 1993 to 1995 he was also a lecturer at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. From 1995 to 2003 Schäfer was an academic councilor or senior councilor at the chair for ancient history at the University of Regensburg . There he completed his habilitation in 1997 on top management in the republic and imperial times. The procurators of private persons in the Imperium Romanum from the 2nd century BC. Until the 3rd century AD. In 2003, Schäfer was appointed to succeed Jürgen Deininger at the University of Hamburg , where he held a chair for ancient history. In 2007 he accepted a position at the University of Trier, which he followed in 2008. In 2014 he was offered a W3 professorship for Ancient History at the Philipps University of Marburg , which he refused after extensive renegotiations.

His main research interests lie in Hellenism , especially in the form of legitimation of power among the successors of Alexander the Great , in the social and economic history of the Roman Republic and the Imperial Era as well as in the history of late antiquity up to the Great Migration . He is considered an expert in the field of ancient shipping and in conveying historical knowledge through multimedia teaching aids. In 2006, Schäfer presented the authoritative modern representation of Cleopatra . Schäfer is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2007) and the Academia Europaea (since 2012). Since 2010 he has been chairman of the Varus Society in Osnabrück.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Western Roman Senate as the bearer of ancient continuity under the Ostrogoth kings. (AD 490-540). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 1991, ISBN 3-922661-89-0 (At the same time: Mainz, University, dissertation, 1990).
  • Computers and ancient texts. Word research, concordance and index creation with full text databases (= Computer und Antike. Vol. 1). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 1993, ISBN 3-928134-77-9 . (2nd, revised and expanded edition, ibid. 2003, ISBN 3-89590-128-8 .)
  • Top management in the republic and imperial times. The procurators of private persons in the Imperium Romanum from the 2nd century BC. BC to the 3rd century AD (= Pharos. Studies on Greco-Roman antiquity. Vol. 10). Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 1998, ISBN 3-89590-063-X (At the same time: Regensburg, University, habilitation paper, 1997).
  • Eumenes von Kardia and the struggle for power in the Alexander empire (= Frankfurt ancient historical contributions. Vol. 9). Clauss, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-934040-06-3 .
  • with Hans Ferkel and Heinrich Konen: Navis Lusoria. A Roman ship in Regensburg Scripta-Mercaturae-Verlag, St. Katharinen 2004, ISBN 3-89590-152-0 .
  • Cleopatra. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15418-5 .
  • Lusoria. A Roman ship in the experiment. With the collaboration of Hans Moritz Günther and Alexander Christopher Wawrzyn. Koehler, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7822-0976-2 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See the review by Manfred Clauss: Duane W. Roller, Cleopatra. A biography. Oxford (Oxford UP) 2010. In: Klio, Volume 93, Issue 2 (2011), pp. 504-505, here: p. 505.
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and university professor, professor of ancient history at Trier University
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main