Heinz Heinen

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Heinz Heinen (born September 14, 1941 in Sankt Vith , Belgium ; † June 21, 2013 in Trier ) was a German-Belgian ancient historian .

biography

Heinz Heinen attended the ancient language branch at the St. Vith Episcopal School. From 1959 to 1964 he studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He then received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Tübingen in 1964/65 and, in 1965/66, research assistant to Karl Friedrich Stroheker at the Ancient History Seminar in Tübingen. In 1966, Heinen received his doctorate there under Hermann Bengtson . He then did military service in Belgium and in 1968 became a research assistant with Hermann Bengtson at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1970 . In 1970 Heinen was appointed to the Scientific Council and Associate Professor at Saarland University in Saarbrücken .

As early as 1971, two appointments were made to full professorships for ancient history at the universities of Düsseldorf and Trier . Heinen accepted the call to Trier, where he was full professor for ancient history for 35 years from November 29, 1971 until his retirement on October 1, 2006 and dean of Faculty III in 1974/75. In 1980 he turned down a call to the University of Freiburg . Since 2002 he has been chairman of the commission for the history of antiquity at the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . From 2000 he directed - until his death in 2002 together with Heinz Bellen , from 2010 together with Winfried Schmitz - the academy project research on ancient slavery .

Heine's main research areas were Greco-Roman Egypt , Trier and the Trevererland in Roman times, the northern Black Sea region in antiquity, Russian historiography and ancient slavery . He has written several books on the subject of Trier and Trier Land in Roman and early Christian times ( Augusta Treverorum ). With several colleagues, he published the first volume of the history of the Trier diocese. Heinen has been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Churtrier zu Trier in the CV since 1975 , since 1983 a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , since 1991 a foreign member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten in Brussels, since 1997 Membre honoraire de l'Institut Grand -Ducal de Luxembourg, Section des Sciences Historiques, since 1998 full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, since 2000 honorary member of the Russian Association for Antiquity Researchers in Moscow and since 2009 corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Heinen led various projects: 1995–1998 Greek States and Native Peoples of the Northern Black Sea Coast in the Period of the Greek Colonization at the International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS) , 2001–2006 The cult of Achilles in the northern Black Sea area as part of the priority program Forms and Paths of Acculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea Area in Antiquity of the German Research Foundation , 2002–2008 emergence and development of a multicultural society in Greco-Roman Egypt and Rome's “Friends “In the Collaborative Research Center Foreignness and Poverty. Change of Inclusion and Exclusion Forms from Antiquity to the Present of the German Research Foundation.

Fonts

  • Editor: The History of Antiquity as Reflected in Soviet Research. (= Income from research , volume 146) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-07314-2 .
  • Trier and the Treverland in Roman times. (= 2000 years Trier, Volume 1), Spee-Verlag, Trier 1985, ²1988, ISBN 3-87760-065-4 .
  • Early Christian Trier. From the beginnings to the migration of the peoples , Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1996, ISBN 3-7902-0178-2 .
  • Editor with Hans Hubert Anton, Winfried Weber: In the upheaval of cultures. Late antiquity and early Middle Ages. (= History of the Diocese of Trier, Volume 1), Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 2003 ISBN 3-7902-0271-1 .
  • History of Hellenism. From Alexander to Cleopatra. (= CH Beck Wissen ), CH Beck, Munich 2003, 2 2007, ISBN 3-406-48009-8 .
  • Andrea Binsfeld and Stefan Pfeiffer (editors): From the Hellenistic East to the Roman West. Selected writings on ancient history. (= Historia individual writings, volume 191), Steiner-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08740-0 .
  • Cleopatra Studies. Collected writings on the end of the Ptolemaic period. ( Xenia , Issue 49), Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-87940-818-4 .

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SURNAME Heinen, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Vith
DATE OF DEATH June 21th 2013
Place of death trier