Frank Bernstein

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Frank Bernstein (born February 1, 1964 in Duisburg ) is a German ancient historian .

Frank Bernstein passed his Abitur in 1983 at the Neudorf Municipal High School in Duisburg. From 1983 to 1989 he studied history and classical philology at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he obtained the academic degree of a Magister Artium. In 1990 Bernstein was a research assistant at the history seminar in Düsseldorf, then until 1992 a scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and 1992 graduate visiting student at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford . This was followed by teaching positions at the University of Düsseldorf in 1992/1993 and a position as a research assistant at the Gerhard Mercator University - GH Duisburg in 1993/1994. There he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD. From 1994 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Ancient History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 2002 he completed his habilitation there with studies on Greek refugee movements in the age of the so-called Great Colonization and received the venia legendi for the subject of ancient history. He then worked as a university lecturer at the University of Mainz from 2002 to 2006, where the Senate awarded him the prize for excellent teaching in 2003 . In 2005/2006 Bernstein was a substitute professor for ancient history at Bielefeld University . From 2006, Bernstein taught there as a professor of general history with a special focus on ancient history , before moving to a chair in ancient history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the 2007/2008 winter semester . He has been dean of the Philosophy and History Department since 2013.

His research focuses on political religion in polis and res publica , as well as migration and mobility and pacification , especially the question of pragmatics and semantics of collective forgetting.

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Monographs

  • Ludi publici. Investigations into the origin and development of the public games in republican Rome (= Historia-Einzelschriften Volume 119). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07301-9 (also: Duisburg, University, dissertation, 1993-1994).
  • Conflict and migration. Studies on Greek refugee movements in the age of the so-called Great Colonization (= Mainzer Ancient History Studies, Volume 5). Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen 2004, ISBN 3-89590-148-2 (also: Mainz, University, habilitation paper, 2002).

Editorships

  • with Hartmut Leppin : A new beginning and disillusionment in the post-war period. The ancient historian Hermann Strasburger in memoriam (= series of publications of the Frankfurt University Archives. Volume 4). Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1126-8 .

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