Engelbert Winter

Engelbert Winter (born April 7, 1959 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German ancient historian .

Engelbert Winter studied history and sports from 1979 to 1985 as a teacher and from 1984 to 1987 classical archeology . In 1987 he received his doctorate in Münster with a thesis on the Sāsānid-Roman peace treaties of the 3rd century AD . In 1995 he completed his habilitation on the subject of state building policy and building welfare in the Roman provinces of the imperial Asia Minor . Since 1997 he has been leading archaeological investigations in Kommagene . In 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster. In the winter semester 2008/09 and in the summer semester 2009 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg . In 2010/11 he headed the research project Fragile Luxury - Antique Glass at Medusa Cam Müzesi Gaziantep and represented Peter Funke's chair in Münster.

Since December 2011, Winter has been a permanent research assistant in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Münster. Between 2012 and 2015 he headed the sub-project B2-20 Media Representation and 'Religious Market'. Visibility, self-portrayal and reception of Syrian cults in the west of the Roman Empire as part of the 2nd funding phase of the Cluster of Excellence 212 Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity , from 2014 to 2015 the research project The Sacred Architecture of Commagenic Hierothesia and Temene . As part of the Erasmus Teaching Mobibility program, Winter taught in March 2015 at the Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu . Since 2015 he has headed the research project Doliche Urban Development and Cultural Milieu in Hellenistic-Roman Northern Syria , since 2016 the project Votive Practice in the Shrine on the Dülük Baba Tepesi near Doliche (Southeast Turkey) funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation

Winter has been an expert reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since September 2011. In 2014 he became a member of the Institutum Turcicum Scientiae Antiquitatis and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 2015 he became a board member of the Carl Human Foundation . In October 2016, Winter became a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Istanbuler Mitteilungen .

Winter's numerous research focuses include the history of the Roman Empire , the relationship between Rome and the eastern Mediterranean and Iran, in particular the Sassanid Empire and the history of ancient religions .

Fonts

Monographs

• The Sāsānid-Roman peace treaties of the 3rd century AD (= European university publications, series 3 = history and its auxiliary sciences, volume 350). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1988, ISBN 3-8204-1368-5 .
• State building policy and building welfare in the Roman provinces of the imperial Asia Minor. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 20). Habelt, Bonn 1996, ISBN 978-3-7749-2761-2 .
• together with Beate Dignas: Rome and the Persian Empire. Two world powers between confrontation and coexistence. (= Study books history and culture of the old world) .. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-05-003451-5 .

Editorships

• with Anke Schütte-Maischatz: Doliche - a commagenic city and its gods. Mithras and Iupiter Dolichenus. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 52; Dolichener and Kommagenische Forschungen, Volume 2). Habelt, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3240-9 .
• Patris pantrophos kommagēnē. New finds and research between the Taurus and the Euphrates. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 60; Dolichener und Kommagenische Forschungen, Volume 3). Habelt, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7749-3517-4 .
• From Kummu to Telouch. Historical and archaeological research in Kommagene. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 64; Dolichener und Kommagenische Forschungen, Volume 4). Habelt, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7749-3646-1 .
• with Frank Biller: From the Euphrates to the Bosporus. Asia Minor in Antiquity. Festschrift for Elmar Schwertheim on his 65th birthday. 2 volumes, (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 65). Habelt, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7749-3579-2 .
• with Michael Blömer : Iuppiter Dolichenus. From local cult to imperial religion. (= Oriental religions in antiquity, Volume 8). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-151797-6 .
• with Klaus Zimmermann : New finds and research in Bithynia. Dedicated to Friedrich Karl Dörner on the occasion of his 100th birthday. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 69). Habelt, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3827-4 .
• Cult and rule on the Euphrates. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 73 = Dolichen and Kommagenische Forschungen, Volume 6) .. Habelt, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3890-8 .
• with Klaus Zimmermann: Between satraps and dynasts. Asia Minor in the 4th century BC Chr. (= Asia Minor Studies, Volume 76). Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3937-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Engelbert Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Engelbert Winter at the University of Münster