Dagmar Hofmann
Dagmar Hofmann is a German ancient historian .
Life
From 1994 to 2003 she studied Ancient History, Modern / Middle History and German Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where she obtained her Magistra degree in April 2003. From 1996 to 2000 she was a research assistant in the research project Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . The German Research Foundation funded her from 2004 to 2007 with a doctoral scholarship as part of the Graduate School Leitbilder der Spätantike at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , where she received her doctorate under Walter Ameling in July 2007 . From July to September 2007 she was the coordinator in the Graduate School Leitbilder der Late Antiquity . From October 2007 to March 2008 she was a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. From October 2007 to March 2009 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Since April 2009 she has been a research assistant in the Department of Ancient History at Walter Ameling at the University of Cologne . In spring 2010 she taught as a visiting professor at the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews . After the habilitation colloquium in June 2016, she represented Klaus Freitag in the Chair of Ancient History at RWTH Aachen University in the 2017 summer semester . In the 2018 summer semester, 2018/19 winter semester and 2019 summer semester, she taught as a substitute professor for Ancient History ( Winfried Schmitz and Konrad Vössing ) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In the 2019/20 winter semester, she taught as a substitute professor for the Chair of Ancient History ( Hartwin Brandt ) at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg .
Her main research interests are the universal history of antiquity, the history of historiography, the history of late antiquity, early Christianity, anthropology, the cultural and social history of antiquity and Latin epigraphy.
Fonts (selection)
- Suicide in late antiquity. Its evaluation in Latin literature (= Colloquium of Classical Studies. Vol. 18). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-515-09139-4 (also dissertation, Jena 2007).
- Greek world history in Latin. Justin's Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi and the historical conception of Pompeius Trogus (= Hermes - individual writings. Vol. 114). Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12143-9 (also habilitation thesis, Cologne 2016).
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| SURNAME | Hofmann, Dagmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |