Henning Börm

Henning Börm (* 1974 in Flensburg ) is a German ancient historian and university professor .

Henning Börm studied history and literature at the University of Kiel from 1995 to 2002 . He received his doctorate there in the 2006 summer semester with a study supervised by Josef Wiesehöfer on the late antique historian Prokopios of Caesarea and the Roman-Persian relations . From 2003 to 2004 he worked at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Münster , and from 2004 to 2008 at the Institute for Classical Antiquity at the University of Kiel as a research assistant to Peter Weiß . Since 2008 he has been Ulrich Gotter's assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Konstanz , and since the winter semester 2017/18 private lecturer . In 2015 he received the teaching award from the University of Konstanz. In 2014/15 Börm was a fellow at the cultural studies college ; In the 2017/18 winter semester he taught as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin , in the 2018 summer semester at the University of Tübingen , and in the 2019/20 winter semester at the University of Innsbruck . In 2019 he was accepted into the Heisenberg program of the German Research Foundation; in the summer of 2020 he took the call to a professorship at the University of Bochum , which he has held since then.

Börm has specialized primarily in the history of the Mediterranean world in Hellenism and late antiquity . In his dissertation and in several subsequent specialist articles, he dealt in particular with the relationship between the Roman Empire and the New Persian Sāsānid Empire . His study Prokop and the Persians was recognized as an important contribution to research on Prokopios and the Roman-Persian contacts . In 2013 there was also a presentation of Western Roman history, in which Börm mainly blames intra-Roman conflicts for the collapse of the Western Empire during the so-called “ migration of peoples ”. This study was also very well received in specialist circles, and an expanded second edition was published in 2018.

Finally, the third focus of his work is stasis - civil war-like unrest in the Greek poleis - in the Hellenistic period. They are the subject of his habilitation thesis , which he completed in 2017 , which was published in 2019 and welcomed in the subject as "stimulating" and "advanced" or "excellent". Since 2018 he has been one of the project leaders of the DFG research network Internal War . In addition, Börm deals with comparative monarchy research, Greek historiography and mythology as well as discourse analysis .

Fonts

Monographs

• Murderous fellow citizens. Stasis and civil war in the Greek Poleis of Hellenism (= Historia-Einzelschriften, Vol. 258). Steiner, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-515-12311-2 .
• West rom. From Honorius to Justinian (= UTB Bd. 735). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-17-033216-4 (2nd edition).
• Procopius and the Persians. Investigations into the Roman-Sasanid contacts in late antiquity (= Oriens et Occidens vol. 16). Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09052-0 .

Edited volumes

• with Nino Luraghi : The Polis in the Hellenistic World . Steiner, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12020-3 .
• with Johannes Wienand and Marco Mattheis: Civil War in Ancient Greece and Rome. Contexts of Disintegration and Reintegration (= HABES . Vol. 58). Steiner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11224-6 .
• with Carsten Binder and Andreas Luther : Diwan. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Wellem, Duisburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-941820-24-1 .
• Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity (= Studies in Ancient Monarchies. Vol. 3). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 .
• with Josef Wiesehöfer: Commutatio et contentio. Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian, and Early Islamic Near East. Wellem, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-941820-03-6 .
• with Norbert Ehrhardt and Josef Wiesehöfer: Monumentum et instrumentum inscriptum. Inscribed objects from the imperial era and late antiquity as historical evidence. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-515-09239-0 .

There are also numerous book chapters and articles in ancient historical journals ( Chiron , Gymnasium , Historia and Klio ) as well as technical reviews at H-Soz-u-Kult , in the Historical Journal , in the Journal of Late Antiquity , in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review , in the Gnomon and in the points of view . Börm has also written articles for the New Pauly and the Oxford Classical Dictionary and the Procopius entry in the Encyclopædia Iranica . He has also been one of the editors of the Reiche der Alten Welt series at Kohlhammer-Verlag since 2019 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Henning Börm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Henning Börm at the University of Bochum
• Page by Henning Börm at Academia.edu

Remarks

1. ↑ Technical discussion at H-Soz-u-Kult ; Technical discussion (PDF; 64 kB) at Plekos; Expert discussion by Geoffrey B. Greatrex at the BMCR.
2. ↑ Technical discussion at H-Soz-u-Kult; Technical discussion in the visual points ; Expert discussion by Roland Steinacher , in: Historische Zeitschrift 300 (2015), p. 172; Expert discussion by Michael Kulikowski, in: Klio 98 (2016), pp. 393–396.
3. ^ Technical discussion by Robert Malcolm Errington in the visual points ; Technical discussion at H-Soz-u-Kult .