Fergus Millar

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Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar (born July 5, 1935 in Edinburgh , † July 15, 2019 in Oxford ) was a British ancient historian .

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The son of a lawyer attended the Edinburgh Academy and the Loretto School from 1943 to 1953. After military service in the Royal Navy studied Millar 1955-1958 at Trinity College in Oxford Classical Studies ( "Greats"). From 1958 to 1964 he was a Fellow of All Souls College , Oxford. In 1958, he received a doctoral scholarship from All Souls College. He received his doctorate in 1962 from Ronald Syme on Cassius Dio . In 1964, Millar became a Fellow and Tutor for Ancient History at Queen's College , Oxford, and in 1976 Arnaldo Momigliano's successor was Professor at University College London . In 1984 he returned to the University of Oxford when he accepted a call to the Camden Chair in Ancient History held by Ronald Syme and Peter Brunt . He retired in 2002.

Millar is considered one of the most important ancient historians of the 20th century. He dealt with numerous topics, especially Roman history , for example imperial administrative activities , the Middle East in Roman times, late antiquity (especially Theodosius II ) or the question of the role the people played in the constitution of the Roman Republic: Millar emphasized described the democratic elements of the system in a series of essays, thus triggering an intense debate.

Since 1987 Millar was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Millar received a D. Litt. From the University of Oxford in 1988 and the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies in 2005 from the British Academy , to which he has been a member since 1976 . Since 1989 he has been an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences , since 1999 of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 2003 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1991 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2010, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the dignity of a knight and thus elevated him to the personal, non-hereditary nobility. Fergus Millar died in July 2019 at the age of 84.

Fonts

  • A Study of Cassius Dio . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964.
  • Editor and co-author: The Roman Empire and its Neighbors . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1966, Fischer Weltgeschichte , Vol. 8.
  • The emperor in the Roman world (31 BC-AD 337) . Duckworth, London 1977; 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 0-7156-1722-2 .
  • The Roman Near East (31 BC-AD 337) . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1993, ISBN 0-674-77885-5 ( review ).
  • The crowd in Rome in the late republic . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1998, ISBN 0-472-10892-1 .
  • The Roman Republic in Political Thought . University Press of New England, Hanover 2002, ISBN 1-58465-199-7 .
  • Rome, the Greek world and the east . Edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers. 3 volumes. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2002-2006 (Collected Writings; Reviews of Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 ).
  • A Greek Roman Empire. Power and Belief under Theodosius II . University of California Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24703-1 .

literature

  • Alan K. Bowman et al. (Ed.): Representations of empire. Rome and the Mediterranean world. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-726276-7 (commemorative publication with bibliography of Millar's writings).
  • Michael Sommer : Sir Fergus Millar †. In: Gnomon . 92, 2020, issue 2, pp. 188–192.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724
  2. ^ Membership directory: Fergus Millar. Academia Europaea
  3. ^ The London Gazette , June 11, 2010, p. 1 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Millar, Fergus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millar, Fergus Graham Burtholme (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2019
Place of death Oxford