Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen

Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (born April 26, 1960 in Lüneburg ) is a German ancient historian .

Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen's grandfather was the politician and diplomat Hans Schlange-Schöningen . After graduating from high school in Göttingen in 1979 , he studied history, religious studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and in Bordeaux from 1982 to 1987 . There he completed his studies in 1988 with the Maîtrise d'Histoire de l'Université de Bordeaux . From 1989 to 1994 he was a research assistant at Alexander Demandt's chair for late antiquity at the Free University of Berlin. In 1993 he received his doctorate from Demandt with a thesis on education in late antiquity. From 1996 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at Ernst Baltrusch's Chair for Roman History, also at the Free University of Berlin. In 2003 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and represented a senior assistant for ancient history at the Technical University of Dresden . In 2004, Schlange-Schöningen was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , New Jersey . Until the summer semester of 2006, he taught as a private lecturer for ancient history at the Free University of Berlin, especially on the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Since the winter semester 2006/2007 he has been teaching at Saarland University in Saarbrücken ; initially as a W2 professor for ancient history. After turning down an offer at Mannheim University in 2010 , he became a W3 professor in Saarbrücken.

Schlange-Schöningen specializes in Roman history in the imperial era and late antiquity and is also interested in the history of science in the ancient world . He is currently working on Roman social and religious history and the history of Constantine the Great .

Fonts

Monographs

• Empire and education in late ancient Constantinople (= Historia individual writings. Vol. 94). Steiner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06760-4 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1992).
• The Roman society at Galen. Biography and social history (= studies on ancient literature and history. Vol. 65). De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-11-017850-8 (also: Berlin, Freie Universität, habilitation paper, 2001).
• Augustus. 2nd, reviewed and bibliographically updated edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 3-534-16512-8
• Jerome. A historical biography . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2018. ISBN 3-805-35149-6 .

Editorships

• Constantine and Christianity. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-20778-7 .
• with Andreas Goltz : Constantine the Great. The image of the emperor through the ages (= archive for cultural history. Vol. 66). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 3-412-20192-8 .

literature

• Ernst Baltrusch: History of Ancient History at the Free University. In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The historical sciences at the Free University of Berlin (= contributions to the history of science of the Free University of Berlin. Vol. 2). V & R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-475-3 , pp. 11-40, here pp. 25 and 37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen at the University of Saarland

Remarks

1. ^ Udo Wengst :  Hans Schlange-Schöningen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 26 ( digitized version ).