Dirk Rohmann

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Dirk Rohmann (born May 6, 1975 in Witten ) is a German ancient historian .

Dirk Rohmann studied history and Latin at the universities of Bochum and Tübingen , where he received the historical institute's sponsorship award for his thesis. From 2001 to 2002 he worked as an editor for the Encyclopedia 's New Pauly , then as a fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he 2004 Martin Zimmermann on the topic of violence and political change in the 1st century. N. Chr. Ph.D. and then taught.

From 2005 to 2008 Rohmann was a Feodor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . He was a lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder , where he received the William M. Calder III Fellowship twice and did research on the topic of "Christian Polemics in Late Antiquity ". The host in Colorado was Noel Lenski . From 2008 to 2009 he was a research fellow at the University of Bonn , and from 2009 to 2012 he worked as a research associate at the University of Manchester . From 2013 to 2014 Rohmann was a fellow in the Topoi Cluster of Excellence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. There he worked on unequal scales in antiquity and late antiquity. From 2014 to 2017 he was a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield . The main focus of research in Sheffield was the creation of a database of networks of late ancient clerics in exile. Since October 2017 he has been a teacher for special tasks at the University of Wuppertal . In the 2017/18 winter semester, he also completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin based on an already published monograph on the destruction of books in late antiquity.

Rohmann has presented several publications in the field of ancient history. In his dissertation ( Violence and Political Change in the 1st Century AD ) he asks about the reasons for the depiction of excessive violence in early imperial literature, which is found there more frequently than in the literary works of other epochs of antiquity. In this work, which was recognized as an important study, he explains the portrayal of excessive violence in early imperial literature with the changed socio-cultural environment and security needs of the Roman upper class. The Forbes Magazine recommends the work of Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity , which argued that Christian writers have seen books as bodies of demons are habitable, which are destroyed in the fire. He has also written articles in anthologies and important ancient historical journals ( Hermes , Classical Quarterly , Historia , Vigiliae Christianae and Ancient Society ) as well as specialist reviews in the Historisches Zeitschrift , the Journal of Roman Studies and the Sehepunkte, among others . He has also written articles for the New Pauly (on Timon of Athens and Viriatus ) and in the Encyclopedia of Ancient History . Other thematic focuses include late antiquity ( Byzantine studies and patristic studies ) and legal history , the historical significance of the Christian poet Prudentius and prosopographical contributions, book destruction and censorship. He lectures at the North American Patristics Society , Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (on the history of medicine) in the USA, at Ben Gurion University in the Negev , at the University of Oxford and at the Bard Graduate Center in New York.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire. A sourcebook. UTB 5285, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5285-4 .
  • Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission. (= Work on church history . Volume 135). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-048445-8 (North American paperback edition: Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas 2017, ISBN 9781481307826 ).
    • In 2019, the book was selected by an international jury as one of 217 specialist books (worldwide, all subject areas) from 2008 to 2018 for an open access publication by the organization Knowledge Unlatched: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486070
  • Violence and political change in the 1st century AD (= Munich Studies on the Old World. Volume 1). Utz, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0608-0 .

Editorships

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Dirk Rohmann: Unequal scales in the literary, epigraphic and papyrological findings of antiquity. In: Historia vol. 66 (2017), pp. 83–110.
  2. ^ Project page of the University of Sheffield
  3. ↑ See the reviews of Werner Riess in Historische Zeitschrift 288 (2009), pp. 715f., Doi: 10.1524 / hzhz.2009.0027 ; Martin Stöckinger in: Journal of Roman Studies. 101 (2011), p. 302, doi: 10.1017 / S0075435811000633 . Annemarie Ambühl: War and civil war with Lucan and in Greek literature. Studies on the reception of Attic tragedy and Hellenistic poetry in the Bellum civile. Berlin 2015, p. 52. ( limited preview in Google book search); Martin Zimmermann: Violence. The dark side of antiquity. Munich 2013, p. 219 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Dirk Rohmann: Violence and Political Change in the 1st Century AD Munich 2006, p. 203.
  5. ↑ Sarah E. Bond: Top 5 Ancient And Medieval Censored Books To Read During Banned Book Week . In: Forbes Magazine , September 26, 2016. See the detailed review by Balbina Bäbler in: Plekos 19, 2017, pp. 493–498.
  6. ↑ Cf. Dirk Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Berlin u. a. 2016; Ders .: Enforced Career Changes, Clerical Ordination and Exile in Late Antiquity. In: Jakob Engberg, Julia Hillner, Jörg Ulrich (Hrsg.): Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity. Frankfurt 2016, pp. 95–111.
  7. ↑ About Dirk Rohmann, The slow death of the Veterum Cultura Deorum - Pagan cults at Prudentius. In: Hermes 131 (2003), pp. 235-253.
  8. ^ About Dirk Rohmann: Timon von Athen. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 591 f .; Dirk Rohmann: Viriatus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , Sp. 244-244.
  9. ↑ Dirk Rohmann, Book burning as conflict management in the Roman Empire (213 BCE - 200 CE). In: Ancient Society 43 (2013), pp. 115-149. See Jamie Wood: Suetonius and the De uita Caesarum in the Carolingian Empire. In: Tristan Power, Roy K. Gibson (Eds.): Suetonius the Biographer. Studies in Roman Lives. Oxford 2014, pp. 273–291, here p. 278, no. 19 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ Conference program , p. 16.
  11. ↑ Conference program
  12. ^ Lecture Textual and Spatial Exclusion of Scholarly Communities ; Symposium — Early Codices Production, Destruction, and Modern Conservation
personal data
SURNAME Rohmann, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten