Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto

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Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto (born March 31, 1948 in Cologne as Elisabeth Herrmann ) is a German ancient historian .

Elisabeth Herrmann studied history, philosophy and Latin at the universities of Cologne and Mainz from 1966 to 1977 . In 1972 she passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools at the University of Cologne. In 1977 she received her doctorate in ancient history at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the subject of " Ecclesia in Republica. " Supervised by Heinz Bellen and Alois Gerlich . The development of the church from pseudo-state to state-incorporated existence ”. For her work, she received the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz award for the best doctorate of the year. From 1977 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant and later in succession to Joseph Vogt (until 1978) and Heinz Bellen as head of the “Research on ancient slavery” department at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Since 1978 Herrmann-Otto has also been a lecturer at the University of Mainz for Ancient History. In 1993 her habilitation for ancient history took place again in Mainz on the subject of “ Ex ancilla natus. Investigations into the “home-born” slaves in the west of the Roman Empire ”. For her habilitation thesis she was awarded the 3rd International Gérard Boulvert International Romance Prize of the Université de Franche-Comté , Besançon , in 1996. She then taught as a private lecturer at the University of Mainz until 1999 . During this time she held substitute professorships at the Universities of Erlangen (1994/95), Trier (1995/96) and Bielefeld (1995/96). In 1999 she was appointed adjunct professor in Mainz. From 2000 until her retirement she was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Trier ; Her successor was Frank Daubner in 2017 .

She worked at the University of Trier in 2000/01 as managing director of the history department, and from 2001 to 2003 as vice dean of department III. From 2003 to 2009 Herrmann-Otto was the spokesperson for the Graduate School 846 (Slavery - Servitude and Compulsory Labor - Forced Labor) of the DFG . Herrmann-Otto's main research areas are ancient social and economic history with a special emphasis on slavery and poverty research within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 600 "Strangeness and Poverty" of the German Research Foundation , Greek and Roman constitutional history , Christianity , late antiquity and cultural history with special consideration of ceremonial, age and gender research.

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  • Ecclesia in re publica. The development of the church from pseudo-state to state-incorporated existence (= European Forum, Vol. 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1980 ISBN 3-8204-6313-5 . (Dissertation)
  • Ex ancilla natus. Investigations on the "home-born" slaves in the west of the Roman Empire (= research on ancient slavery, vol. 24). Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-515-06329-3 . (Habilitation)
  • (Ed.): The culture of aging from antiquity to the present. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2004 ISBN 3-86110-372-9 .
  • (Ed.): Unfree working and living conditions from antiquity to the present. An introduction (= slavery - bondage - forced labor, vol. 1). Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2005 ISBN 3-487-12912-4 .
  • Constantine the Great. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-15428-9 . ( Review by H-Soz-u-Kult )
  • Slavery and Release in the Greco-Roman World. Olms, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-14251-7 . ( Review by Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; Review by sehepunkte )

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SURNAME Herrmann-Otto, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne