Gregor Weber (historian)

Gregor Weber (born July 9, 1961 in Offenburg ) is a German ancient historian .

Life

Gregor Weber studied history, Greek and Catholic theology at the Universities of Freiburg and Vienna from 1980 to 1987 . Even before the state examination he received a scholarship in the basic funding of the Cusanuswerk episcopal study grant . The foundation also supported his PhD Poetry and Court Society , supervised by Hans-Joachim Gehrke . The reception of contemporary history at the court of the first three Ptolemies at the University of Freiburg in 1991. During his doctorate, he held a teaching position in Freiburg in the winter semester and in 1991 was a member of the Freiburg DFG special research area 321 (" Transitions and areas of tension from written to oral ", Subproject C9, Ancient History).

In 1991 he first became a research assistant and from 1993 assistant at the chair for ancient history at the University of Eichstätt . In the summer semester he also had a teaching position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . From 1995 to 1999 Weber worked on the sub-project “ Inscriptiones Graecae Eystettenes. Corpus of the Greek Inscriptions from Bithynia-Pontus ”within the DFG priority program“ Historical Basic Research on Ancient Asia Minor ”. In 1998 he completed his habilitation in Eichstätt with the thesis " Emperor, Dreams and Visions in Principality and Late Antiquity ", for which he also received the Habilitation Prize from the Eichstätter University Society.

In the winter semester 1998/99 Weber represented the chair holder at Freiburg University. In 1999 he also became senior research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt. After the substitution of a professorship in the summer semester 2001 and the subsequent winter semester at the University of Erfurt , the appointment as university professor for ancient history to that professorship followed. As early as 2003 he moved to the University of Augsburg , where he succeeds Gunther Gottliebs as full professor of ancient history.

Weber's main research interests are ancient and modern democracy, the history of Hellenism , dreams and visions in ancient times, ancient courts and monarchies, historical anthropology, and urban development and water supply for cities. In 2000 Weber received the price of the Volksbank Eichstätt for the interdisciplinary research and exhibition project The Curse of Inflation . From 2005 to 2009 he was a board member of the Mommsen Society . Since 2006 he has been a liaison professor of the Cusanuswerk bishop's scholarship at the University of Augsburg; from 2009 to 2015 he acted as director of the Augsburg Institute for European Cultural History, from autumn 2012 to November 2015 as managing director. For the winter semester 2014/15 he received a fellowship from the Jakob Fugger Center. Research College for Transnational Studies at the University of Augsburg. From October 2015 to October 2017 he was dean of the philological and historical faculty of the University of Augsburg, then vice dean for two years. He is currently a member of the University Council and the Extended University Management, as well as a member of the DFG Review Board Ancient Cultures (2020–2023).

Since 2005, together with Jürgen Malitz, he has been the editor of the Gnomon Bibliographical Database (GBD) and, together with Werner Rieß, of the "Ancient History Research (AGF)" series published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttingen), and since 2013 of the "Colloquia Augustana" series im Publishing house de Gruyter (Berlin).

In 2013/14 Weber and Reinhard Förtsch from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin headed the project “Bibliographic Databases as a Visualized Knowledge Network”, which was funded by the European CLARIN program . The aim is to create a common platform for the Gnomon Bibliographic Database and the ZENON catalog of the DAI. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Propylaeum Specialized Information Service Classical Studies and, together with Andreas Hartmann, heads a sub-project of the new, DFG-funded Specialized Information Service (FID) Classical Studies to migrate the GBD to a new platform, which is in a new funding phase (2019-2021), again in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library in Munich. He is currently head of the DFG project Basileus eirenophylax - Peace Culture (s) and Monarchical Representation in the Hellenistic World (2019-2022).

Gregor Weber is married and has two daughters; he is also a member of SC Freiburg .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Poetry and court society. The reception of contemporary history at the court of the first three Ptolemies (= Hermes . Individual writings. 62). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-06297-1 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1991).
• Emperor, dreams and visions in the principality and late antiquity (= Historia . Individual writings. Volume 163). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07681-6 (also: Eichstätt, Catholic University, habilitation paper, 1998).
• with Frank Hahlbohm and Frank Zschaler: The curse of inflation. Currency devaluations in the Roman Empire and in the 20th century (= publications of the Eichstätt University Library. Volume 47). HWZ-Verlag, Eichstätt 2000, ISBN 3-00-006944-4 .

Editorships

• with Klaus Stüwe and Helmut Witetschek: Humanities and science policy on the threshold of the third millennium. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2677-8 .
• with Martin Zimmermann : Propaganda - self-portrayal - representation in the Roman Empire of the 1st century. AD (= Historia. Individual writings. Volume 164). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08251-4 .
• with Klaus Stüwe: Antiquity and Modern Democracy. Selected texts (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek . 18314). Philipp Reclam Jr., Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-018314-6 .
• Europe in view. Seventh joint symposium of the universities of Augsburg and Osijek (= writings of the philosophical faculties of the University of Augsburg. Volume 74). Ernst Vögel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-230-1 .
• Cultural history of Hellenism. From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-94126-5 , now also available electronically at https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/weber2007.
• with Peer Schmidt: Traum and res publica. Dream cultures and interpretations of social realities in Europe from the Renaissance and Baroque periods (= Colloquia Augustana. Volume 26). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004568-9 .
• Alexandria and Ptolemaic Egypt. Cultural encounters in the Hellenistic period. Verlag Antike, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938032-37-4 .
• Translator and editor: Pseudo-Xenophon: The Constitution of the Athenians. Greek - German. WBG, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-14320-7 .
• with Sonia V. Rose and Peer Schmidt: Los sueños en la cultura iberoamericana (siglos XVI – XVIII) (= Colección Universos Americanos. 6). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica, Seville 2011, ISBN 978-84-00-09312-9 .
• with Kay Ehling : Constantine the Great. Between Sol and Christ (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . = Special volume of the ancient world . ). Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4292-6 .
• with Andreas Hartmann : Between antiquity and modernity. Festschrift for Jürgen Malitz on his 65th birthday. Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, Speyer 2012, ISBN 978-3-939526-18-6 .
• with Kay Ehling : Hellenistic Kingdoms. Philipp von Zabern et al., Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8053-4758-7 .
• Artemidor von Daldis and the ancient interpretation of dreams. Texts - contexts - readings (= Colloquia Augustana. Volume 33). de Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040725-9 .
• with Mark Häberlein and Stefan Paulus : history (s) of knowledge. Festschrift for Wolfgang EJ Weber on his 65th birthday. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95786-038-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site by Gregor Weber at the University of Augsburg