Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer

Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer (born June 27, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German ancient historian .

Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer studied Ancient History, Medieval Studies , Philosophy and Islamic Studies ( Arabic language ) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg from 1978 to 1986 . His master's thesis was entitled The Clientele in Archaic Rome. Origin and function . Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer stayed in Freiburg. He received his doctorate in the winter semester 1991/92 with a major in Ancient History and the minor subjects Medieval Studies and Philosophy. The subject of the dissertation was Under the Sign of the Phallus. The order of sexual life in ancient Rome . In 1990 Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer first became a university assistant, later a senior assistant in the work area History and Present of Old Europe at the Open University in Hagen . There he completed his habilitation in May 1999 for Ancient History with the work Politikōs árchein. On the style of government of the senatorial governors in the imperial Greek provinces . From 1992 to 2003 and again in the 2005/06 winter semester he was a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In June 2003 he became a private lecturer in Hagen, and in January 2007 he was appointed professor there. Between 2005 and 2009 Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer was also a lecturer in Freiburg and at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Deputy professorships took him to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald for two semesters in 2003/04 , to Duisburg-Essen in 2004/05 and to the Technical University of Chemnitz in 2009/10 . Since October 2015 he has been working as a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer's research focuses on the history of the Roman provinces, the political anthropology of antiquity, the history of ancient written cultures , the history of classical studies and the history of reception, gender history and ancient numismatics . He is currently working on a five-year project on the history of the Roman provinces.

Fonts

• Under the sign of the phallus. The Order of Sexual Life in Ancient Rome , Campus, Frankfurt a. M. 1995. ISBN 3-593-35388-1 (Historical Studies, Vol. 15)
• Politics árchein. On the style of government of the senatorial governors in the imperial Greek provinces , Steiner, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-515-07648-4 ( Historia individual writings , vol. 165)
• Roman empire. The history of the Roman provinces , CH Beck, Munich 2009 ISBN 978-3-406-56267-9 ( CH Beck knowledge 2467)

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on the website of the Fern-Universität Hagen