Claudia Tiersch

Claudia Tiersch (born July 22, 1967 in Steinach , Sonneberg District , GDR ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Claudia Tiersch graduated from high school in 1986 in Apolda and then worked until 1987 at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1987 she began studying ancient history at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , and in 1991 she moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU), where she studied medieval history and philosophy in addition to old age until 1993 . With the work Asketinnen des 4. – 6. In the late 18th century in the east of the Roman Empire , she completed her regular studies as a Magistra Artium . From 1993 to 1996 she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Technical University of Dresden , and in 1997 Tiersch became a research assistant in the sub-project A2 of the Collaborative Research Center 537 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Institutionality and Historicity in Dresden and remained in this position until 2002 . In October 1998 he completed his doctorate in Dresden with a thesis on the subject of Johannes Chrysostomos . Between 2003 and 2005 Tiersch received a grant for her habilitation , and from January to May 2005 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . The habilitation took place in July 2006 in Dresden with the writing Democracy and Elite. Role and importance of the political elite in the Athenian democracy 480–322 BC Chr .. they Thereafter Assistant Professor at the Department of Ancient History at the TU Dresden. In the 2007/2008 winter semester, she represented Martin Zimmermann's chair at LMU . In 2009 she became a teacher for special tasks in Munich , and on March 1, 2010 she was appointed professor of ancient history at the Humboldt University in Berlin in an early appointment as part of the federal and state professors' program to promote equality between women and men appointed in science and research at German universities on March 10, 2008. Since April 1, 2015, she has held the Chair of Ancient History I, succeeding Wilfried Nippels .

Tiersch's research focuses on the relationship between church and state in late antiquity , the meaning and ways of life of Christian ascetic women , on political and legal stabilization mechanisms in the Roman Republic , and on the Athenian democracy of the 4th century BC. Chr.

Fonts

• John Chrysostom in Constantinople (398–404). World view and work of a bishop in the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147369-8 (studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity, volume 6; = dissertation TU Dresden 1998).
• Editor with Stephan Müller and Gary Schaal : Duration through change. Investigations on the perpetuation of cultural processes . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-08202-3 .
• Democracy and elite. Role and importance of the political elite in the Athenian democracy 480–322 BC Chr. Dresden 2006 (= Habilitation TU Dresden 2006).

Web links

• Tiersch on the website of the HU Berlin
• Tiersch's CV at H-Soz-Kult