Jörg Fündling

Jörg Fündling (born January 23, 1970 in Aachen ) is a German ancient historian .

Jörg Fündling attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium Aachen from 1980 to 1989 . He studied biology at RWTH Aachen University in 1989/90 and then completed a master's degree in ancient history, Latin and historical auxiliary sciences / archival studies at the University of Bonn from 1990 to 1996 . From 2000 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. With Klaus Rosen in Bonn he received his dissertation Comment on Hadriani's Vita of the Historia Augusta in 2005 . In 2007 he received the Karl Arnold Prize for his dissertation . In 2007 he worked for the Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity . Since October 2008 Fündling has been a research assistant at the Historical Institute of RWTH Aachen University.

Fündling's work focuses on Historia Augusta research , the political and cultural history of the Principate , and the literary reception of antiquity. He published biographies about Marc Aurel and Sulla . His monumental commentary on Hadrian's Vita is a “milestone” in Historia Augusta research. In 2010, Fündling was awarded the Prix Bordin of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for his work on Marc Aurel .

Fonts

• Commentary on the Vita Hadriani of the Historia Augusta. 2 vols. Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-7749-3390-1 .
• Homer's world. Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-19902-2 .
• Marc Aurel. Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-15425-8 .
• Kaiser from morning to evening. A day at the head of the Roman Empire. Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89678-386-8 .
• Sulla. Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-15415-9 .
• The Golden age. How Augustus reinvented Rome. Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-86312-035-1 .
• Philip II of Macedonia. Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8053-4822-5 .
• Asterix. 100 pages. Reclam, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-15-020418-4 (3rd, reviewed and updated edition 2018).

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Fündling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site from Fündling at the University of Aachen

Remarks

1. ↑ See the discussion by Stefan Priwitzer in: sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 1 [15. January 2009], ( online ).
2. ↑ See the review by Anna Trattner in: H-Soz-Kult , June 27, 2011, ( online ).
3. ↑ See the review by Bruno Bleckmann in: Klio , Volume 90, Heft 2 (2008), pp. 549–550, here: p. 550. Further review by Stefan Priwitzer in: sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 12 [15. December 2008], ( online ).
4. ↑ Palmarès 2010 . Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Retrieved November 12, 2019.