Hans-Joachim Drexhage

Hans-Joachim Drexhage (born September 5, 1948 in Unna ) is a German ancient historian .

Hans-Joachim Drexhage passed his Abitur in 1970 at the humanistic high school Hammonense in Hamm. He then studied at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where Thomas Pekáry was one of his academic teachers. In this case, the doctorate also took place on the basis of a thesis that appeared in abbreviated form under the title “Economy and trade in the early Christian communities (1st – 3rd centuries AD)”. In 1986 Drexhage qualified as a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University with the thesis Prices, Rents, Leases, Costs and Wages in Roman Egypt until Diocletian took office. From 1994 on he taught as a full professor at thePhilipps University of Marburg ; he retired after the 2013/2014 winter semester.

Drexhage is primarily concerned with the ancient, especially the imperial economic history . Together with Kai Ruffing, he is the editor of the specialist journal Münstersche Contributions to Ancient Trade History (renamed in 2009 to Marburg Contributions to Ancient Trade, Economic and Social History ), Laverna. Contributions to ancient social and trade history as well as the Pharos series. Studies on Greco-Roman Antiquity .

Fonts

Monographs

• German-language dissertations on ancient history. 1844-1988 . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03197-9 .
• Prices, rents, leases, costs and wages in Roman Egypt until Diocletian's accession to the government (= preliminary work on an economic history of Roman Egypt. Volume 1). Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1991, ISBN 3-922661-88-2 (habilitation thesis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 1986).

Editorships

• with Heinrich Konen and Kai Ruffing: The economy of the Roman Empire (1st – 3rd century). An introduction ( study books History and Culture of the Old World ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003430-0
  Review by Holger Koch (PDF; 89 kB) in Plekos 5 (2003)

literature

• Kai Ruffing , Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (ed.): Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Contributions to the economic, social, reception and scientific history of antiquity. Festschrift for Hans-Joachim Drexhage on his 70th birthday (= Philippika. Volume 125). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-447-11087-7 , p. 1 f. (Foreword by the editors with a brief outline of the professional stations and research achievements).

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Drexhage in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Drexhage: Economy and trade in the early Christian communities (1st – 3rd century AD). In: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history . Volume 76, 1981, pp. 1-72.