Hans D. Meyer

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German lawyer of the same name, see Hans Dieter Meyer .

Hans Dieter Meyer (born August 17, 1929 in Wuppertal ) is a German ancient historian .

Hans D. Meyer received his doctorate in 1957 from the University of Cologne with the thesis Cicero and the Reich . 1960 followed there also the habilitation with the text The foreign policy of Augustus and the Augustan poetry . In 1965 he was appointed to the Chair of Ancient History at RWTH Aachen University. He was the first to hold this professorship. In 1984 Meyer retired from his professorship prematurely for health reasons; Hartmut Galsterer succeeded him in 1985 .

Meyer initially dealt in his qualification papers with the late period of the Roman Republic and the early imperial period . Later research on the classical period of Greece followed. He also wrote various articles for the Lexicon of the Old World .

Fonts

• Cicero and the Empire. Dissertation Cologne 1957.
• The foreign policy of Augustus and the Augustan poetry (= Cologne historical treatises. Volume 5). Böhlau, Cologne-Graz 1961.
• Flandrensia. Research on local history in medieval Flanders. Self-published, Kloosterzande 2001.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1980. de Gruyter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , p. 256.