Jürgen Malitz

Jürgen Malitz (born January 4, 1947 in Düsseldorf ) is a German ancient historian .

Career

Jürgen Malitz studied history at the University of Freiburg . He has been a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg since 1967 . He received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1974. There he was then an assistant and received his habilitation in 1980. From 1990 to 2011 he held the chair for Ancient History at the University of Eichstätt . His main research interests are ancient historiography , the history of the Roman Empire , the history of the Jews in antiquity and the history of classical studies.

Malitz is the founder and, together with Gregor Weber, publisher of the bibliographic database " Gnomon Online ", the " Gnomon Bibliographic Database. International Information System for Classical Antiquity ”and the“ Numismatic Image Database Eichstätt ”. He is also a translator of ancient authors ( Nikolaos of Damascus ). He is also the editor of job registers for the works of Theodor Mommsen . In March 2005 he was one of the first to sign an open letter “ HaGalil must go on!” To the Federal Minister for Family Affairs and the Federal Chancellor. Protests are being made here against the fact that the federal government wants to withdraw from the " Uprising of the decent " project , which is actively involved in the fight against anti-Semitism in Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• List of publications by Jürgen Malitz. Pp. 7-10 ( online ).
• Ambitio mala, studies on the political biography of Sallust (= Saarbrücker contributions to antiquity. Volume 14). Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-0901-6 (dissertation).
• The histories of Poseidonios (= Zetemata . Issue 79). CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09679-4 (habilitation thesis).
• Nero (= CH Beck knowledge ). CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-44605-1 (translated into Spanish and English).
• Nikolaos of Damascus. Life of the Emperor Augustus (= texts on research. Volume 80). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-14676-X .

literature

• Andreas Hartmann , Gregor Weber (ed.): Between antiquity and modernity. Festschrift for Jürgen Malitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday, offered by colleagues, friends, students and companions. Kartoffeldruck-Verlag Brodersen, Speyer 2012, ISBN 978-3-939526-18-6 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Malitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site by Jürgen Malitz at the University of Eichstätt
• Publications online
• Writings by Jürgen Malitz in Propylaeum-DOK

Remarks

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 129 , 1387
2. ↑ Link to "Open letter to the Federal Minister for Family Affairs and to the Federal Chancellor"