Hans Beck (historian)

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Hans Beck (born April 22, 1969 in Werneck ) is a German ancient historian .

Hans Beck was born in 1997 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on the subject of Polis and Koinon. Studies on the history and structure of the Greek federal states in the 4th century BC . Chr doctorate. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne and later at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 2004 he completed his habilitation in Cologne with the work career and hierarchy. The Roman aristocracy and the beginnings of the cursus honorum in the middle republic . This was followed by a stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC Beck then taught for years as a professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal . There he held the John MacNaughton Chair of Classics and Director of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Arts . At the end of 2018, he moved to the University of Münster as the successor to Peter Funke .

Beck is a specialist in classical Greece and the Roman Republic . He deals with governments and federations in Greece, the political culture in Rome , the ancient aristocracy and ancient historiography . He is characterized by a large number of publications, with the New Pauly alone he contributed more than 80 articles between 1998 and 2002, mainly on Greek history, prosopography and geography, including several main articles. He is co-editor of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies and of Hermes, the journal for classical philology . In 2015 Beck received an Anneliese Maier Research Award , and in 2018 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada .

Fonts

  • Polis and Koinon. Studies on the history and structure of the Greek federal states in the 4th century. v. Chr. , Steiner, Stuttgart 1997 ISBN 3-515-07117-2 ( Historia individual writings , volume 114).
  • Editor with Uwe Walter : The Early Roman Historians I. From Fabius Pictor to Cn. Gellius , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-14757-X ( Texts on Research , Volume 76)
  • Editor with Uwe Walter: The Early Roman Historians II. From Coelius Antipater to Pomponius Atticus , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-14758-8 (Texts on Research, Volume 77)
  • Career and hierarchy. The Roman aristocracy and the beginnings of the cursus honorum in the middle republic , Academy, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004154-4 ( Klio supplements , new series, volume 10).
  • Editor with Peter Scholz and Uwe Walter: The power of the few. Aristocratic rulership practice, communication and noble lifestyle in antiquity and early modern times , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-486-58726-5 ( historical magazine , supplement, new series, volume 47)
  • with John Buckler: Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC. , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008
  • Editor with Hans-Ulrich Wiemer : Celebrate and remember. Historical images in the mirror of ancient festivals , Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009 (studies on ancient history).
  • Editor with Antonio Dupla, Francisco Pina Polo and Martin Jehne : Consuls and Res Publica. Holding High Office in Republican Rome , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011

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SURNAME Beck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Werneck