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Gunnar Seelentag (* 20th October 1972 in Berlin as Gunnar Jantke ) is a German historian .

Gunnar Seelentag graduated from school in the USA in 1989, and in 1991 he passed the Abitur at the Evangelical High School for the Gray Monastery . He studied history, Latin and English at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he passed his first state examination in 1998. From 1999 to 2001, Seelentag was a doctoral scholarship holder of the Graduate School Premodern Concepts of Time and the Past of the German Research Foundation . In 2001 he became a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Cologne , and in 2002/03 he was also an employee of the Cologne auction house Lempertz . He received his doctorate in 2002 in Freiburg with a dissertation on the subject of acts and virtues of Traians. Representation of power in the Principate . The reviewers were Hans-Joachim Gehrke and Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp . The thesis that the 1992 Egon Flaig proposed "acceptance model" to the principate of Trajan applies, was awarded the Bruno Snell Prize of the Society Mommsen- excellent.

In 2004, Seelentag became a research assistant at the Hölkeskamps chair in Cologne. Visiting professorships as part of the Erasmus program led him to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2006 , to Cambridge in 2007 and 2008, and to the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews in 2009 . In 2009/10 he was a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University . In the winter semester 2010/11, the habilitation took place at the University of Cologne with an investigation into the formation and character of statehood in archaic and classical Crete. In the summer semester of 2011, he represented David Wardle as visiting professor at the University of Cape Town .

In the 2011/12 winter semester he was a substitute professor for Kai Trampedach at Heidelberg University . In the summer semester of 2012 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In the 2012/13 winter semester he was Hartmut Leppin's chair for ancient history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and in the 2013 summer semester, Seelentag took over the chair for Aloys Winterling at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2014 to 2019 he was W2 professor at the University of Rostock , and since the summer semester 2019 he has held the chair for Ancient History at the Leibniz University of Hanover .

Seelentag researches in particular the early and middle Roman Empire , archaic Greece, Cretan history, Roman numismatics , the intersections between ancient history and archeology and the sociology of domination . In his dissertation, Seelentag examined the phenomenon of the representation of power in the Roman principate using the example of the government of Trajan .

Fonts

• Deeds and virtues of Traian's. Representation of rule in the Principate (= Hermes . Individual writings. Issue 91). Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08539-4 (also dissertation, Freiburg 2002).
• Archaic Crete. Institutionalization in early Greece (= Klio . Supplements. New series, volume 24). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-036240-4 (partly also habilitation thesis, University of Cologne 2010).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gunnar Seelentag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Gunnar Seelentag in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Gunnar Seelentag at Leibniz University Hannover
• academia.edu

Remarks

1. ↑ See the reviews by Sabine Panzram in: Klio 89, 2007, pp. 240–241; Isabelle Künzer in: Journal für Kunstgeschichte 13, 2009, pp. 20–27 ( online ); Angela Pabst in: Gnomon 86, 2014, pp. 619–623.