Felix K. Maier

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Felix Klaus Maier (born October 2, 1981 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German ancient historian and classical philologist . He is a scholarship holder of the Heisenberg program of the German Research Foundation and currently works for the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life and research

Maier obtained his Abitur at the Fürstenberg-Gymnasium Donaueschingen in 2001 , completed basic military service by 2002 and then studied at the Universities of Eichstätt , Freiburg and Oxford . In 2008 he passed the state examination in Latin Philology, History and Greek Philology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

In 2011, Maier received his doctorate in Ancient History with the work “Reckon with the Unexpected Everywhere” , supervised by Hans-Joachim Gehrke - The Contingency of Historical Processes at Polybios . The dissertation won several prizes and was published in the prestigious Vestigia series in 2012 . In the same year Maier was appointed a junior college student at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

In 2015, he completed his habilitation with the book Vom Krieger zum Sieger - The Emperors and the Imperial Dilemma in the 4th Century AD, published in 2019 , for which Maier was awarded a double venia legendi in the subjects of Ancient History and Classical Philology. Maier then worked as a research assistant in Freiburg until 2017, in between as a visiting scholar at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham.

After Maier had represented chairs for ancient history at the universities of Freiburg ( Peter Eich ), Tübingen ( Sebastian Schmid-Hofner ) and Frankfurt ( Hartmut Leppin ) in 2016 and 2017 , he received a five-year DFG- funded Heisenberg scholarship, which he has been working at the University of Würzburg since 2018 .

Since 2017, Maier and Hans-Joachim Gehrke have been the editor of the geographical authors within the fragments of the Greek historians .

Maier's research interests include Greek and Roman historiography, ancient concepts of time and space, the empire of late antiquity, the escalation analysis of military conflicts and digital classics.

Fonts

Monographs

  • “Expect the unexpected everywhere” - The contingency of historical processes at Polybios. (= Vestigia. Volume 65). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64171-8 . (Also: dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008.)
  • Palace revolution. The way to the capital city empire in the Roman Empire of the fourth century (= ancient empires. Volume 1). Schöningh, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-79241-9 . (At the same time: habilitation thesis, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015.)

Editorships

  • with Thomas Blank: The symphonic sisters - Constructions of truth in post-classical historiography , Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-11838-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maier - Institute for History. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Ritter Prize - Central University Administration. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Walter Prize. Retrieved June 25, 2019 . as well as haw.uni-heidelberg.de
  4. ↑ Maier's curriculum vitae (PDF).
  5. ↑ Ancient History University of Würzburg. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Fragments of Greek historians. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Felix K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Felix Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Villingen-Schwenningen