John Christes

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Johannes Christes (born October 18, 1937 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Christes received his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Freiburg under Karl Büchner . For his doctoral thesis The early Lucilius . Reconstruction and interpretation of the 26th book as well as parts of the 30th book he received the price of the Scientific Society in Freiburg in 1971 . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg and completed his habilitation there in 1977 with the text Slaves and Freedmen as a grammarian and philologist in ancient Rome: Research on ancient slavery . In 1993 he was appointed to a C4 professorship for Latin studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2003 he retired. His successor is Ulrich Schmitzer .

Johannes Christes is a specialist in ancient Roman society. He wrote several studies on the position of slaves, Roman youth and the education of Roman antiquity.

literature

  • Diana Bormann, Frank Wittchow (editor): Emotionality in antiquity. Between performativity and discursivity . eca, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940842-83-1 (Festschrift from an international conference in honor of Johannes Christes, January 30, 2003 to February 1, 2003).
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 20th Edition (2005), p. 495

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