Clemens Koehn

Clemens Koehn (* 1976 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Latina August Hermann Francke in 1994, he studied ancient history as well as Latin and Greek philology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from 1994 to 2001 , where he obtained his Magister Artium in 2001. From 1997 to 1998 he spent a year studying at La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle . His subsequent work on the dissertation on the foreign policy of medium-sized powers in the Hellenistic period was supported from 2002 to 2005 by graduate funding from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The work was defended in November 2005 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Koehn did research for half a year as an associate graduate member at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. From 2005 to 2014 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He stayed at the University of Liverpool in December 2006 as part of an exchange program, and from 2007 to 2008 he held the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute . After completing his habilitation in ancient history and being appointed private lecturer in 2014, he became a lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England in Australia that same year . In 2018 he published his habilitation thesis .

Koehn's research interests include Hellenistic history and historiography (especially Polybius ), Greek epigraphy , late antiquity , especially the history of the 6th century ( Justinian ), the history of Roman constitutional and private law as well as ancient military history (especially Roman artillery and asymmetric warfare and experimental archeology ).

War diplomacy ideology. On the foreign policy of Hellenistic medium-sized states (= Historia individual writings . Volume 195). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-515-08990-X (also dissertation, Halle 2005).
as editor with Hans-Ulrich Cain and Volker Grieb : Hellenism. A world in upheaval . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-23760-9 .
as editor with Volker Grieb: Polybios and his histories. Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-515-10477-1 .
as editor with Volker Grieb: Marc Aurel - ways to his rule . Computus Druck Satz & Verlag, Gutenberg 2017, ISBN 3-940598-27-5 .
Justinian and the Army of Early Byzantium (= Millennium Studies. Volume 70). De Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-059720-2 (also habilitation thesis, Helmut Schmidt University 2014).