Jens-Uwe Krause (historian)

Jens-Uwe Krause (born June 8, 1957 in Sterup ) is a German ancient historian .

After school and high school in Flensburg , Krause studied history and classical philology at the University of Kiel , where he passed the state examination in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1986 with Frank Kolb with a thesis on late antique forms of patronage in the west of the Roman Empire . He completed his habilitation in 1993 at the University of Heidelberg on widows and orphans in the Roman Empire . In 1998 he was appointed to a chair for Ancient History at the University of Munich as the successor to Christian Meier .

Krause's research focuses on Roman social history and the history of late antiquity , especially the late ancient city and early Christianity.

Fonts

• Late antique forms of patronage in the west of the Roman Empire . CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32356-1 .
• Bibliography on Roman social history . 2 volumes. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1992 and 1998, ISBN 3-515-06044-8 and ISBN 3-515-07269-1 .
• Widows and Orphans in the Roman Empire. 4 volumes. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1994/95.
• Prisons in the Roman Empire . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06976-3 .
• Criminal history of the ancient world . CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52240-8 .
• History of late antiquity. Francke, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-4761-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens-Uwe Krause in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Munich