Jochen Martin

Jochen Martin (born December 26, 1936 in Peiskretscham / Upper Silesia) is a German ancient historian .

Martin was born in 1936 as the son of a bank clerk in Peiskretscham in Upper Silesia (Kr. Gleiwitz) and grew up in Mainburg / Niederbayern and Neufelderkoog near Brunsbüttel . After graduating from high school in Marne (Holstein) in 1956, he studied history and Latin in Kiel , Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1962 to 1964 he was the editor of the Lexikons für Theologie und Kirche (LThK) at Herder-Verlag in Freiburg. In 1965 he was at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the populares in the late Roman Republic at Herbert Nesselhauf doctorate . From 1966 Martin was an assistant at the chair for ancient history at the University of Konstanz and completed his habilitation there in 1972. In the following years he was a university lecturer in Freiburg. In 1976 he became professor of ancient history at Bielefeld University , and in 1980 in Freiburg. The description of the chair was changed in 1994 to “Ancient History and Historical Anthropology”. In 2002 Martin retired .

He focuses on the history of late antiquity and early Christianity as well as historical anthropology .

Fonts

• Conditions of human action in antiquity. Collected contributions to historical anthropology , ed. v. Winfried Schmitz . Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09311-8 .
• Late antiquity and the Great Migration . Oldenbourg, Munich 1987. 4th edition 2001, ISBN 3-486-49684-0 (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history , 4).
• The Genesis of the Ministerial Priesthood in the Early Church . Herder, Freiburg 1972, ISBN 3-451-02048-3 .
• The Populares in the History of the Late Republic , Freiburg 1965 (also: Phil. Diss., University of Freiburg 1965).

Web links

• Website at the University of Freiburg
• Literature by and about Jochen Martin in the catalog of the German National Library