Gerhard Waldherr (historian)

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Gerhard H. Waldherr (born September 17, 1956 in Regensburg ) is a German ancient historian .

After graduating from high school and doing basic military service , Gerhard Waldherr studied history, German and geography for teaching at the University of Regensburg from 1977 to 1984 and passed the first state examination in 1984/85 . From 1982 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Regensburg. In 1987 he studied with Adolf Lippold in Regensburg on the subject of Cupiditas aedificandi. Researching the building inscriptions of the Diocletian era in the Roman provinces of North Africa . From 1989 to 1995 he was an assistant in Regensburg and received his habilitation in 1995. From 1995 to 1999 there was a time as senior assistant at the chair of Lippold's successor Peter Herz . Research stays took him to the Universities of Leicester and Aix-en-Provence as well as to the German Archaeological Institute in Rome .

In the summer semester of 2001, Waldherr taught as a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , and from 2002 to 2004 in the same position at the University of Regensburg. From 2005 to 2007 Waldherr represented the professorship for Ancient History at the University of Bayreuth . Further teaching assignments and substitutions took him to the University of Erlangen and the University of Jena . Waldherr is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Regensburg and, after Peter Herz's retirement, was a representative of the chair that Angela Ganter has held since 2018 .

Publications

  • Imperial building policy in North Africa. Studies on the building inscriptions of the Diocletian period and their spatial distribution in the Roman provinces of North Africa. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-631-40704-1 (= dissertation).
  • Earthquake. The extraordinary normal. On the reception of seismic activities in literary sources from the 4th century BC Chr. To the 4th century AD. Chr . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07070-2 (= habilitation thesis).
  • Nero. A biography . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7917-1947-5 .
  • The Limes. Contact zone between cultures . Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018648-0 .
  • Roman Regensburg. A historical city guide (Archeology in Bavaria Travel Guide) , Pustet, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 9783791727387 .

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SURNAME Waldherr, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldherr, Gerhard H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg