Felix K. Maier
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
- ^ Maier - Institute for History. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
- ^ Gerhard Ritter Prize - Central University Administration. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Walter Prize. Retrieved June 25, 2019 . as well as haw.uni-heidelberg.de
- ↑ Maier's curriculum vitae (PDF).
- ↑ Ancient History University of Würzburg. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Fragments of Greek historians. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
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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 |