Hartmut Leppin

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Hartmut Leppin (born October 18, 1963 in Helmstedt ) is a German ancient historian .

After graduating from high school in 1981, Hartmut Leppin studied history, Latin, Greek and educational sciences in Marburg , Heidelberg and Pavia at the Philippinum High School in Marburg . His academic teachers were Karl Christ and Robert Malcolm Errington . In 1988 the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in history and Latin took place. Two years later he received his doctorate with a thesis supervised by Christ in Marburg on the social position of stage artists in the west of the Roman Empire at the time of the Republic and the Principate . In 1995 he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the Greek church historians of the 5th century AD. Since 2001, Leppin has been teaching ancient history as a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main ; He repeatedly turned down calls to other universities. For 2015 he was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , and in 2019 he was awarded the Erwin Stein Prize for his research on the “polyphony of early Christianity” with a special focus on oriental Christianities of late antiquity .

Leppin's current research focus is late antiquity and especially the historiography of this time. Leppin has dealt intensively with several late antique church histories and presented important works in this regard. In addition to Mischa Meier , he is also one of the leading German experts for the time of the late Roman emperor Justinian I. In 1999, his book Thucydides and the constitution of the polis was published. Furthermore, he wrote a very positively received biography about Theodosius I and in 2007 he was co-author of an illustrated book about the usurper Maxentius . Leppin is a member of the editorial board of the historical magazine and has been its co-editor since 2015. He is also co-editor of the Reallexikons für Antiquity and Christianity (since 2011).

He is married to a doctorate in history and Latin. His younger brother Volker Leppin (* 1966) teaches as a church historian in Tübingen. Hartmut Leppin is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts (selection)

  • Histrions. Studies on the social position of stage artists in the west of the Roman Empire at the time of the Republic and the Principate (= Antiquitas . Series 1, Volume 41). Habelt, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7749-2517-8 (also: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1990).
  • From Constantine the Great to Theodosius II. The Christian empire among the church historians Socrates, Sozomenus and Theodoret (= Hypomnemata. Studies on antiquity and its afterlife. Vol. 110). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-25198-X (also: Berlin, Freie Universität, habilitation paper, 1995).
  • Thucydides and the Constitution of the Polis. A contribution to the history of political ideas in the 5th century BC Chr. (= Klio. Contributions to ancient history. Vol. 1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003458-0 .
  • The church fathers and their time. CH Beck, Munich 2000. 2nd, revised edition 2006, ISBN 3-406-44741-4 .
  • Theodosius the Great. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-15431-2 (reviews: Plekos , H-Soz-u-Kult , Sehepunkte ).
  • Introduction to Ancient History. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53527-5 .
  • with Hauke ​​Ziemssen: Maxentius. The last emperor in Rome. von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-8053-3399-3 .
  • The legacy of antiquity. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60130-9 .
  • Justinian. The Christian experiment. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-94291-0 .
  • The early Christians. From the beginning to Constantine . CH Beck, Munich, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72510-4 .
  • Guest article in the FAZ Feuilleton on July 30, 2019: When doing without was part of everyday life (on the debate about celibacy )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Eva-Maria Magel: Hartmut Leppin Leibniz Prize for Frankfurt ancient historians. In: FAZ.NET , December 10, 2014, accessed January 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Press release of the Erwin Stein Foundation , March 11, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2019.
  3. ^ Foreword by Leppins in: Das Erbe der Antike. Munich 2010, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Leppin, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt